The Web
Hosting Industry 2005
The Web
Hosting Industry 2005.
That was the first decade of the Web
Hosting Industry. The second decade of
Web Hosting was full of applications
that were finding new online platforms,
with the traffic more shifted.
In short time commerce, content and
communications found their home on the
Web. The shopping cart is the essence of
the online commerce, but now many small
traders(and some large ones) are selling
their wares trough other services like
Amazon, Yahoo! or eBay. They are not
only providing the transaction and the
catalog technologies , but also they
bring what is more important for
commerce: the customers. On the hosted
stores from Amazon, Yahoo! or eBay is
instant access to millions of customers
from all around the world.
The application-service-provider
business model is the living example of
many of these new homes that were
formely hosted on one’s own server.
Everything is outscored, event the
function of search build on many
websites. There are only a few larger
sites that needs to implement their own
search, others uses Google.
The email is also an outscored
function, like example who dose not use
Google’s Gmail or Yahoo!’s Mail, were
accounts are made for free and you have
a whole gb for storage. Think about how
many Web Hosting offers provide you with
one gb per user, even for a fee? So if
all of the applications are moving out
of the Web hosting data center, what's a
Web host to do to? What can you continue
to offer your customers?
So, you see, all the applications are
moving out of Web Hosting data center.
And what you can do Web host?
For sure, here comes the answer:
“value migrates to adjacent layers”
particular for this case that value
migrates to services. The Web Hosting
vendors are building strong businesses
to survive though time.
By the constant changing nature of
the internet, the services that embrace,
instead of compete with, the migration
of services away from the Web Hosting
data center are the most important.
Clients that are helped to migrate on
gmail, or other large companies like
Amazon, eBay or Yahoo!, will represent
the major step to a progressive Web
host.
But the migration process is not
easy, so you have to help your clients
by offering them free toolkits and
libraries in order to assist them in
this whole migration process.
And that will be the future of The
Web Hosting Industry.
About the author:
Roderick Coleman is the developer of the
powerful HTML/Image compressor available
at
http://www.optimizehosting.com. It‘s
a money-saving utility that ISPs can
used to increase sales by giving the
service to their clients, and webmasters
can use to increase their site’s
performance, while reducing bandwidth
usage.
