Jul 13, 2013

History of Web Hosting

A Brief History of Web Hosting
    Website hosting has been one of the fastest growing online internet services due to the creation of the world wide web. Every year several new web providers are created to profit from the exploding growth of website hosting, all striving to be the best in the business. Due to the demand for website services and increased competition many companies offer deep discounts to gain and maintain new customers. Extremely cheap Premium host services are now available for as low as $1.99 a month in comparison to almost $15.00 A few years ago. Along with such cheap web hosting prices, they provide many new features such as free website templates, Free E-mail service, analytics integration, website optimization, network tools, search engine optimization, web promote, 24/7 customer service plus much more. All of these services are a huge advantage to the website consumer because it saves them time and money.
     The range of web hosting services varies greatly from small web pages to very large business websites. Smaller websites use a simple file transfer to upload the website to your host providers account. Very large business websites often get hosting from alternate companies due to special features not available from your average Provider. In retrospect smaller to midsize companies can now obtain hosting services at much more affordable prices from average service providers. Personal website hosting, in many cases, is Free due to sponsored advertising on the website from the hosting provider. As technologies advance, many different types of hosting are available. In Shared Web Hosting many different websites share a server. Other new types of hosting include reseller web hosting, virtual dedicated server or commonly referred to as (VDS), dedicated hosting service, managed hosting service, and coldfusion hosting. The newest solution available is called cloud hosting. The cloud hosting platform offers powerful as well as very reliable hosting due to its ability to cluster together servers as well as billing. Cloud hosting also has the ability to charge their customers for the amount of service they have used as opposed to a monthly flat rate.
       There is also a relatively new from of web hosting called green hosting which is an environmentally eco-friendly web service provider. Green hosting uses newly developed green technologies to operate in an environmentally friendly manner and help reduce negative environmental impacts. When choosing a provider the consumer should take into account what their website will require, whether its a personal webpage, home business, large business or just a simple website. Remember that different hosting solutions will require different database servers as well as operating systems which can easily be explained by simply calling any average website provider. The world wide web and internet use is still growing rapidly every year in the united States, as well as worldwide. It is estimated that worldwide Internet use is experiencing 400% to 1000% growth each year. Due to such rapid growth the combined energy cost of servers in the united states and the rest of the world is over 10 billion dollars a year. Just think, The terms website hosting or web host provider were almost no-existent just 15 years ago, it is truly amazing how the world wide web and web Hosting have evolved and grown in such a relatively short time span. In conclusion, when you are ready for a web hosting company simply go to yahoo or Google and type the keywords web hosting and you will find more web providers with more options than you would ever think possible.

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