Growth Of Web Hosting From A Business Viewpoint

The last ten years of website hosting could almost be considered its infancy if the previous ten years where its birth. It has only been 20 years since the World Wide Web was released by CERN using Tim Berner-Lee's HTML. It took about ten years after that to become fully established in the world.

Back then the internet was still dealing with teething problems like e-mail forwarding being banned in Australia because it technically infringed on personal copyright. It was back when Napster was still a big issue and for the first time ever, five US high Schools came online. Versign could only now be used in any language when it made provision for the full set of Unicode. The dot-com bubble had burst and the internet was ready to show what it was truly capable of.

Since then the actual Dollar cost has remained the same. What has changed is what you get for the same price. Web hosting Capacity has increased multiple times and you now get massive amounts of storage space and much greater bandwidth. Newer systems with redundancy have also allowed for almost permanent uptime.

Before there was a large commercial need for website hosting anyone who wanted to post content online had to have their own server. Considering the resources required to host a single page website it soon became clear that this was impractical for everyone to do. Renting out space on a server became the obvious solution and within 10 years shared servers, dedicated servers and co-located servers.

The technology developed faster than the demand however and by 2001 there was almost an oversupply of capacity. This led to a price war and smaller operators ended up getting bought out by larger companies. With the advent of newer technology it has made is possible for operators of any size to be part of the system again.

At this stage the most common modem was still a 56K dial up and there are only about 500 million internet users worldwide so bandwidth restrictions are not really an issue. In order for servers to really use their capacity it would be necessary for connections to be much faster. As the connection speed increased there was a greater demand for content as people would spend more time online.

Free services such as social networking and YouTube changed the way a lot of content was stored online. It also increased the amount of time people spent online and this led to increased sharing. Websites where also able to be far more complex which could then make used of the extended capacity available. As time went by the way we used free service changed and by 2009 we see the end of Geocities. This in a way marks the end of Web1.0.

The biggest difference today apart from the capacity that is available is that there are also more choices available. Because the technology available has become more accessible and easier to use, more and more people are managing their own services or becoming resellers. Technology such as cloud hosting is also guaranteeing almost permanent uptime and scalability.

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