The history of web hosting
Trace the history of web hosting industry from the birth of the World Wide Web in 1991 to its inception in 1996 to the present day.
Web hosting is like a new industry. Apparently, before the birth of the Internet, there was no need for web hosting at all, and not much until a company or individual built his website (or had people build it). There was no.
NSFNET and WWW
The Web hosting industry began in 1991 with the National Science Foundation’s decision to lift commercial restrictions on the Web, allowing traffic from commercial networks to traverse the NSFNET Internet backbone network. Subject to compliance with NSFNET’s Acceptable Use Policy, commercial organizations can now access the network, which was previously used only for education and research.
This change also coincided with the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee et al. of CERN. NSFNET was retired in 1995 in favor of the Berners-Lee model as the preferred method of accessing the Internet.
These developments have increased the number of people using the Internet, the scale of commercial activities conducted on the Internet, and the need for Web hosting services. In the past, you needed your own server or computer to host your website.
In 1995, he had 16 million Internet users worldwide (he was 0.4% of the total population). In 2015, the population was 3.18 billion (43.4% of the total population).
GeoCities
It was perhaps his 1994 launch of GeoCities that web hosting caught the attention of non-niche users. Yahoo! Purchased in 1999, the platform allowed users to upload pages containing content into virtual “cities” related to the content’s topic. GeoCities hosted these pages.
Shared Hosting
According to a Pingdom study, the average hosting plan in 1998 had about 153MB of storage (significantly less than you’d find on a USB flash drive today). Some providers, such as Tibus, offered entry-level packages that only offered 10MB of storage space.
According to the same report, the average shared hosting account at the time was $16.28 per month (by 2008 this had dropped to $12.95). At this point, shared hosting was mostly, if not exclusively, offered by upstart hosting companies.
Dedicated Servers and Co-Lo
In 2001, the services we offered were no different than some of the services available today. At the time, we wrote customers on his website: “[Tibus] can provide your business with reliable and fast hosting services for his website.” – Guaranteed service. Both UNIX-based and Windows NT-based servers can provide hosting.
“For busy websites that need their own dedicated server, we add your own server to our network and offer a colocation service that gives you complete control over your own server, including all technology. “
The dotcom bubble burst in
. As we all know, the mass internet got off to a bad start. The bursting of the fin-de-siècle dotcom bubble allowed for a realignment of things that were done a certain way by default rather than by logic. Companies emerging from the shock had to modernize and find more efficient IT architectures. This could be considered the beginning of the cloud as we know it today.
Clouds
Clouds really took off in 2007 and began to take hold in the public consciousness, and since 2009 they have become very popular, especially among small businesses and large enterprises. It has won many fans for its low price and excellent expandability. Some organizations continued to have concerns about cloud security, but the advent of the private cloud has alleviated many of those concerns. Private his cloud enabled users to achieve similar levels of scalability and flexibility while still having complete control over their own hardware.
In 2011, some skeptics began to realize the benefits of easy access and sharing to the public cloud. This brings together the components of private and public clouds to create a hybrid cloud.
The Future
The web hosting industry will evolve over the next few years. If the first 25 years have taught us anything, it’s that the fundamentals of our core services are fairly consistent. The methods and technologies we use to provide our services change more regularly and may continue to do so.
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