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.
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.
What has changed the most in the last ten years is the amount of resources that are available for website hosting. The monthly price on average has pretty much stayed the same but what you get for your money has multiplied many times. The amount of storage space and bandwidth for traffic has multiplied exponentially over the years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What has changed the most in the last ten years is the amount of resources that are available for website hosting. The monthly price on average has pretty much stayed the same but what you get for your money has multiplied many times. The amount of storage space and bandwidth for traffic has multiplied exponentially over the years.
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.
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.
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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