{"id":740855,"date":"2013-03-07T12:11:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=617836"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:11:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:11:22","slug":"where-does-the-web-live-surprisingly-houston-is-a-popular-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740855","title":{"rendered":"Where does the web live? Surprisingly, Houston is a popular neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you wanted to find the “homes” of the world’s top web sites, the United States would be a good place to start given that 43 percent of the top 1 million sites are hosted there. But according to data released Thursday by Royal Pingdom<\/a> the top city for hosting is Houston, which hosts a little more than 5 percent of the top sites. How did one of every 20 web sites end up in the Bayou City? <\/p>

My first guess was that Houston has a lot of data center space, but data from Telegeography shows the city has roughly 400,000 square feet of retail co-location space in the entire metropolitan area, which is a far cry from the 3 million square feet the San Francisco Bay area has<\/a>, or even the 1 million that Austin, Texas has. So now, I’m frankly stumped. <\/p>

Houston is home to 50,598 of the top million sites (as measured by Alexa), and it’s followed by Mountain View Calif. at No. 2 and Dallas at No. 3. In total, those million websites are hosted in almost 8,000 cities — 7,936 to be exact, so it’s possible that there’s one near you. But, as the chart below shows almost a quarter of the web’s sites are located in the top 10 cities.<\/p>

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