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     hosting and facilitation

This page considers internet hosting as an aspect of the global information infrastructure. It also discusses facilitation, such as e-commerce payment services.

It covers -

• introduction
• the hosting industry - markets, server farms, the SME sector and issues in choosing a host
• ICH statistics - key figures about the shape of internet hosting
• search engines - how many devices
• facilitation services - the 'back-end' of electronic commerce
• regulation - national regimes, extraterritoriality and issues for publishers, consumers, intermediaries and regulators
• studies and resources - primers, academic studies and other writing about the hosting and facilitation sectors

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