Comments on: Web Hosting: 1998 Vs. Now

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:57:32 +0000

You forgot that overselling is a problem now, and is the reason for 10000 TB bandwidth (not that the hosts can really provide such quantities)… Oops, maybe the Pingdom blog forgot it

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:32:48 +0000

Paul Raven wrote:

What you haven’t factored in, of course, is customer service. I was never renting webspace back then, but I imagine you at least got to speak to a real person and weren’t shafted on a million and one small-print get-out clauses …

It really depends on your service provider. For example, we can get the people who host our site on the phone in under a minute 24-hours a day. But then again we don't have a shared host either.

By: Paul Raven

Paul Raven — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:56 +0000

What you haven’t factored in, of course, is customer service. I was never renting webspace back then, but I imagine you at least got to speak to a real person and weren’t shafted on a million and one small-print get-out clauses …

… still, bitterness aside, it is surely scary how fast things move. I still remember getting my first hard drive for my 8086 PC my father built me. 20MB … “Wow, I’ll *never* fill that up!”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:40:04 +0000

It’s nice to see this stuff evolve, and it’s hard to think that you would have only been able to post a few dozen digital images on a server with the storage space they had back then. Of course at that time digital cameras were just emerging.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:27:56 +0000

Well we get a lot more data transfer and lot more space that’s for sure.