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Dirik Hameed
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 website hosting was introduced anyone who wanted to post anything on the web had to have their own servers. This was not really feasible for small operators so eventually someone came up with the idea of renting out space on commercial servers. In the beginning this was very expensive and complicated but it also seemed like the next big thing so everyone wanted to invest in it. Technology developed faster than the demand at that time and hardware capacity soon became large and inexpensive. This led to price wars and only the most competitive suppliers could make it through. Smaller Tier 1 providers where bought out and amalgamated into the larger suppliers. Growth would remain slow for a while. The average modem was still a dial up with a 56K speed which meant that the demand on servers was limited. Since then the number of internet users has quadrupled so it is more useful to be prepared for high demand these days. With increased usage and bigger websites there is finally a demand for the capacity on offer. Much of the internet use shifted to different ways of storing content online so services such as YouTube and Flickr where where huge amounts of information such as video and images ended up. This would reduce the demand created by many site at a host because these are normally what uses the most space. By 2009 the free service called Geocities closed down however and this might have been due to the ease of use and lower cost of paid website hosting these days. Today there is almost endless capacity, or at least more than most people could use. What set's website hosting companies apart is simply the service and the options they provide. The latest innovation is in cloud hosting and although there are security concerns it does provide the ultimate in flexibility as well as scalability and the best performance.
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