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.
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.
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.
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.
Apart from the fact that there is much greater capacity available these days the other difference is that there are more options available. You can go direct or you can use a reseller. If you want to manage your own website hosting there are also various options. The biggest advance so far is probably cloud hosting, which although it is said to be less secure offers a number of advantages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apart from the fact that there is much greater capacity available these days the other difference is that there are more options available. You can go direct or you can use a reseller. If you want to manage your own website hosting there are also various options. The biggest advance so far is probably cloud hosting, which although it is said to be less secure offers a number of advantages.
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