Web Hosting Industry in 2005

A dream of “big things” can be seen on a concrete platform only. Interconnection of Web Sites, that in the last one decade became appropriate for e-commerce, communications, special software etc. Now, that can be said as the first era of the Web Hosting Industry. However, the second era of Web Hosting was an applicable era consisting of new online platforms, with the traffic further shifted.

Within a small nick of time things like commerce, content and communications found their home on the Web. The shopping cart became the core of the online commerce, but in the current period of time a number of small traders (and some large ones) are selling their wares through the mediums like Amazon, Yahoo! or eBay etc. besides providing the transaction and the catalog technologies, they also bring the life giving blood of commerce: the customers. On the hosted stores from Amazon, Yahoo! or eBay, instantaneous access to a very huge number of customers from every part of the world is possible.

One can take the application-service-provider business model as the live example of several these new homes that were formerly hosted on one’s own server.

Everything is outscored, even the task of search build on several websites. There is existence of only few larger sites that requires implementing their own search, while others prefer Google.

One can say that, email is also an outscored function, like for example who does not employ Google’s Gmail or Yahoo!’s Mail, now their accounts are made up for free and one can have a whole gb for storage. User can imagine how many Web Hosting offers are provided to him/her with one GB per user, even for a fee. In a condition where the applications are moving out of the Web hosting data center, what can a Web host do?

What can a host offer to the customers?

Definitely, imminent can be the answer: “value migrates to adjacent layers” for this particular condition that value migrates to services. The Web Hosting vendors are constructing muscular businesses to survive though time.

Due to constant flexible nature of the Internet, the services that embrace, rather then compete with, the migration of services away from the Web Hosting data center is the key aspect. Clients that are helped to wander on gmail, or several big companies for e.g. Amazon, eBay or Yahoo!, will symbolize the crucial walk towards a progressive Web host.

However, the process of the migration is not a simple task, so an ideal host must help his/her clients by offering them free toolkits and libraries for the purpose to assist them in this overall migration process.

Thus through this one can see a glittering future of The Web Hosting Industry.

History of the Web Hosting Industry

The history of the web hosting dates back to the time when the first program was written for the web in the year 1990 by Tim Berners Lee. After that the program was further developed and many companies joined in the effort to come to the present stage where there is still an exponential growth in the web hosting industry.

Now statistics reveal that there are more than 35,000 businesses that host more than 100 sites in their server. With the increasing competition day by day the industry is growing like anything. By the time you read this there would have been some 100s of companies added to the existing list.

The first program for the World Wide Web was that of a hypertext editor that was executed in the NeXT machine. And the browser used at that time was a “line mode browser” which was designed by a student Nicola Pellow.

The specifications of the HTML, HTTP and UDI were published on the server so that discussion can be had on these by the people who do research on this.

To access the web, clients that can work on the other machines other than the NeXT were needed and hence the browsers like Viola, Cello, Erwise, and Mosaic came into existence. The World Wide Consortium that was started in 1994 was the milestone where companies started to involve themselves in creating the common protocols for the Web and the new world of web began to evolve.

Earlier than this the software products also had features that used TCP/IP just for giving the networking feature for the product without knowing the future potential of this protocol. In the last few years of the discussion held in the IETF meeting there were lots of discussion going on to extend the TCP/IP protocols and the ways by which it can be extended.

The features of the tools required for this purpose were also discussed. Basic networking products were developed that provided connectivity and the basic services for the internet. The commercial efforts were limited to this initially. Then it became an essential service with the number of user growing exponentially and the products for the World Wide Web flowing in to the market. The developments in the technology also fueled this. Now with the latest developments in the technology there are many products for each of the technology that is available for the internet.

With the IT majors like the Microsoft, IBM, and the Sun Microsystems plunging into the internet market there are many products, languages, and tools available for use in developing the web applications. Web Servers that serve the user with the requested web pages and a host of features targeting the web are made available.

Power servers built by the hardware manufacturers also aid in the growth of the Web Hosting Industry. The internet has undergone a lot of change. From personal computers, to client server to peer-to-peer network it has changed a lot. File sharing, remote login, email and what not, everything is possible through internet. It has not completed its transformation as it is still in the process. Now with internet telephony and internet television the evolution keeps on happening. It’s hard to realize what is in store next!

U.S. Web Hosting Services: Demand-Side View by Industry, 2005

U.S. Web Hosting Services: Demand-Side View by Industry, 2005

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