The Hosting Market is at a very interesting time. We've seen Hosting Providers merge. ThePlanet and EV1 recently; Layered Technologies has acquired FastServers. I would guess Hivelocity and Sagonet would be next.

It's good to see companies consolidating because the market is extremely competitive and full of pros and cons; that way you can saturate some of the "unstable" providers.

It's getting better but The Hosting Market is still very new and alot of work still needs to be done and alot of new lessons still need to be learnt.