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The Web Hosting Industry 2005
For the "big things" to be build it was certainly
needed a solid platform formed from the brochureware Web
Sites connected together, that in the past ten years became
suitable for e-commerce, communications and special software.
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.
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