Three waves of Web Hosting

The first wave of Web exchange email hosting went round in the middle of 1990s. At that time, there was a deficit of web hosting companies. Exchange email hosting was a big aspect of an ISP operation. Within two years, the number of ISPs had jumped from a few dozens to a few thousands in United States alone.

Many analysts proclaimed that the consolidation of ISP industry was foreseeable. But the analysts didn’t take the future of the web hosting into consideration. The clients of Web hosting ISP's who were small and medium organizations could not offer to have dedicated Internet connections.

As large telecommunication companies becoming a part of the ISP industry and the predominating of broadband connection into both commercial and residential buildings, a few leading ISP, such as AOL had seized residential users from small ISP companies, and telecommunication companies had nicked or acquired commercial clients from small or regional ISP companies.

Because of the economy of finances, ISPs couldn’t compete with either AOL, Comcast or Qwest for Internet connection service. Most ISP companies were winded down as fast as they were cropped up. 

On the other hand, the growth of the Web has excited the second wave of web exchange email hosting. The web hosting companies propose hosting service at a fraction of cost of what ISPs used to charge. In contrast to the Web hosting service from ISP, which is often made for each client one way or another, the idea of one hosting plan has helped increase the client base from a few hundreds to hundreds of thousands at few leading hosting companies in a few short years.

Today’s web hosting companies don’t suggest Internet connection service at all. It is hard to beleive the earlier ISP companies did not try to change themselves into Web hosting companies to withstand the consolidation of the ISP industry.

Seasoned webmasters can without any difficulty setup a new website in minutes with one of their preferred hosting companies. Webmasters-apprentices are often addled by the various web hosting plans – affordable web hosting, Cheap Web hosting, ASP Web Hosting, Budget Hosting, Dedicated Servers, eCommerce Hosting, FrontPage Web Hosting, Hosting With Templates, Managed Web Hosting, PHP Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Shared Hosting, Unix / Linux Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, Windows Hosting and Co-location Hosting.

The size of the Web will continue to become greater exponentially as more and more people join the crow to create their own websites. New web exchange email hosting plans will be labeled in terms of what is can do for hosting buyers, instead of technical buzzwords.

The Web hosting industry has been enjoying healthy growth as the global economy and IT industry revives. It’s too early to see the rising tide of the third wave in Web hosting right now. If the first and the second wave of Web hosing were urged by the start of a new economic time, the coming of the third wave may not be an exception either.