Growth Of Webhosting From A Corporate View

It has only been 20 years since restrictions where lifted and the World Wide Web became a commercial and public platform. At that time there wasn't even any kind of webhosting service so within 10 years you could only really say it had been established. There had been massive growth during the dot-com boom but there would be even more in the years to follow.

If we look at the year 2001 it was still pretty much in the formative years of the internet. It was still being debated whether Napster was infringing on music ownership rights and in Australia the forwarding of emails was banned because it was said to infringe on personal copyright. For the first time ever 5 US High Schools received an Internet2 connection and Verisign could now be used in any language in the world because it had just adopted the full Unicode character set.

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.

When the internet became a world wide phenomenon it was impractical for anyone who needed website hosting to own their own server. This created a burgeoning new industry because it made so much sense to rent out shared space on large servers. In the beginning this was expensive and complex technology but everyone wanted to invest in it because it seemed that the demand was just growing endlessly.

As technology developed servers became cheaper and greater storage capacity was easily available which led to a price war and only the fittest companies would survive. By 2001 there was actually an excess of capacity and the need for website hosting was leveling out. Smaller hosting companies where bought out and only a few larger ones where left.

Back then restrictions on bandwidth where not much of an issue though. The most commonly used modem was still a dial up 56K and there only a quarter of the number of internet users that there is today. In order for service providers to live up to their full potential the speed of connections would first have to catch up.

Since then there has been the advent of services such as YouTube, Myspace and Flickr, which effectively handle a lot of the content which is stored online. This meant that a lot of the content associated with a site would be stored elsewhere. Free services became less popular though and by 2009 Geocities had closed down. This might have been due to the trend towards more usage being made of paid services.

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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