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How will web hosting change in the future?

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[FONT=&quot]I have read articles in several industry publications and spoke to some other web hosts, and all claim that web hosting will be very different in five or ten years. I must say that I agree, but how hosting will change? Many people say that the host of the future must oversell to survive. Others have said that paid hosting will be less popular and VPS servers are what most sites will be hosted on. I have also heard that in the next five years or so most sites will hosted on their own dedicated servers. One very compelling HostingTech article states the following:
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[FONT=&quot]The features of shared hosting are limited to what will work for everyone. You may want a special software configuration, but if that will somehow (even potentially) negatively affect other customers, it cannot be installed. Other solutions (notably dedicated servers) allow basically unlimited configurations and customizations. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It seems to be increasingly apparent that as the need for web sites evolve (which is happening fairly quickly), shared hosting becomes more and more obsolete. It is hard to predict what the web hosting industry will look like in five or ten years, but it is safe to say that it will look very different. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot] You can read the complete article here. There is another interesting article discussing the future of web hosting from a different angle here.

Hosting will evolve and we must plan to evolve with it if we want to survive. I would even go as far as to say that the companies that have a plan and are ahead of the curve will be the most successful. What do you think the future holds for hosting companies? What should hosting companies do to prepare for the future?

Personally I think dedicated servers are going to be the big thing in five to six years. I also think the companies that make it easier for novices to manage dedicated servers will have huge success. What do you think? My hope is that this discussion will get the hosts here planning for the future. [/FONT]
 
Be careful with staying ahead of the curve, if your too ahead of the curve you'll be dead before the rest of the consumer world ever gets to the curve.

But I do agree that VPS and Dedicated servers will be more popular. How popular? I don't know. Until there is a cheap way for people to get managed servers though, shared hosting will always be alive and in need.
 
computerhelpworld said:
Be careful with staying ahead of the curve, if your too ahead of the curve you'll be dead before the rest of the consumer world ever gets to the curve.
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Indeed. I would not suggest anyone drop what is presently popular and invest in what you believe to be the future. But it never hurts to plan for the future. For example, if you believe dedicated servers are a thing of the future you may want to look at creating som WHM addons to assist less experienced users with common tasks. This way they could minimize the need for them to learn ssh. It might also be helpful to write an indepth users manual for dedicated servers and include a link to it in their sign up emails. You could also write a server monitoring script in VB to help users monitor their dedicated machines. These are the kind of things we can do now to stay ahead of the curve with out hurting our current business.
 
What will happen in the future? More people from China an India acquire the internet as their GDP grows, and ask for "50gb space, 1000gb band, no ads, no posts, <insert list of all possible features here>, kthnxbi".

So yes, perhaps VPS will become more popular...though I don't know where the money will come from to pay for it.
 
Definitely VPS's on the rise. Technology makes them so cheap now, that everyone can afford to have decent power for the cost of what used to be featureless shared hosting.

As for shared hosting, I think it will continue to go downhill. Or as another member said, and I will quote: " i think webhosting is on WRONG WAY." lol
 
Starcraftmazter said:
What will happen in the future? More people from China an India acquire the internet as their GDP grows, and ask for "50gb space, 1000gb band, no ads, no posts, <insert list of all possible features here>, kthnxbi".

So yes, perhaps VPS will become more popular...though I don't know where the money will come from to pay for it.
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GDP don't mean crap you know. You know the US could adopt more Socialist policies and force the working man to a standardized one dollar per hour wage and have a GDP out of this world because of the excess income.
 
Hosting will be $0.01 per months with outrageous space. 14 years ago 2mb space would've been considered way more than anyone needed, and now people are unsatisfied with 250GB of hard drive space.
 
Home servers will sprout and rapidly grow in the near future. Servers are getting cheaper and cheaper here in Japan. Most that you can get of free shared hosting is from these home servers, where an individual maintains a server inside his/her room for a hobby. Shared hosting is not such a popular thingy, since when one subscribe for an internet provider to connect his/her PC to the internet, the provider also gives him/her around 100MB of free space and unlimited bandwidth as a free service. What more, it comes with a free email account.
 
I think the biggest problem in the future is going to be bandwidth. With everyone getting higher and higher speed connections, servers will need to have a minimum of a 1gb/s uplink, and 100 terabytes bandwidth, as websites become more multimedia heavy.

And all this will put a lot of pressure on the world's telecom infrastructure, not being able to handle all this extra bandwidth.
 
NEC has been developing servers like the ones below, including the most silent server you will ever know. A small library usually creates around 40dB of noise however silent. But these servers creates only 30dB noise which is equivalent to the noise being made by the leaves of the trees as they touch one another. These servers are perfect for small offices and for little brother's bedroom. :D

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I agree things will change and people will want VPS's more
I am getting one myself for my next project I need to allow scripts to do weird things like make email accounts I also want to customize my own webmail client not something that could be done with a shard hosting account
 
You can pick a VPS up with a Basic control panel for $13.99/month, the same as what shared hosting should cost... You have more control over what is hosted on your server, and it's less work on the host as they do not need to worry about security as much as you would on a shared or reseller account.

VPS's are the future, shared hosting is a thing of the past.
 
If dedicated servers are cars, shared hosting are like toy cars.

In 10 yrs time, I think everyone will have a dedicated server except for the extreme small sites.
 
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