A Short History of Web Hosting
web hosting came into being in 1991 with the introduction of the Internet. The Internet tremendously impacted businesses, information and the communications industry and practically everything else that is in your daily life.
The internet provides any and every one with an enormous quantity of free information, regardless of the part of the world they seek it from. It is not an understatement to say that the Internet is the greatest technological creation as yet invented.
- Email and Webpages - The advent of email was a welcome tool that came into being with the Internet, and then the way was now paved for the creation of webpages. The commercial value of the Internet was now evident because of the creation of web pages and email communication.
- E-Commerce – The practice of businesses doing business on the Internet, electronic commerce or ecommerce, started a new business era. This created a demand for web hosting from every business that sought to have their business visible on the Internet. This gave rise to web hosting companies since they were able to provide a security businesses would not be able to get otherwise. Businesses were now able to extend their reach beyond their brick and mortar walls and reach out to customers from all parts of the world.
- Hosting companies expand - In the early web hosting days, only very large companies owned the servers and web hosts were required to rent space on them. In time this changed and the hosts stopped renting and acquired their own servers. Hosting companies then came into their own and as a result, owning space on a web server became available to everyone.
- Hosting Costs - In the early days of web hosting the costs were prohibitively expensive, so much so that not many people could afford it. In time this changed and with the hosting companies now owning their own servers, together with the huge demand for hosting and also the increased competition among web hosts, costs have been reduced quite drastically.
- Web Hosting Competition - Web hosting has become a very competitive industry and it provides a variety of services for their clients in order to beat the competition and to stay ahead. The industry is worth billions of dollars today, and continues to grow at an astonishing rate.
Web hosting today fuels the Internet since it provides for the affordable creation of websites that are the building blocks of the world wide web of virtual properties.
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