The first wave of Web exchange email hosting spread in the middle of 1990s. At that time, there weren’t enough of web hosting companies. Web hosting was a part of ISP (Internet Service Provider) operation. Within two years, the number of ISPs had gone up with a leap 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 web hosting clients for ISPs were most small to medium-sized organizations which couldn't offer to have dedicated Internet connection.
As large telecommunication companies joining the ISP industry and the domination 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 cash, ISPs couldn’t compete with either AOL, Comcast or Qwest for Internet connection service. Most ISP companies were submerged as fast as they were appeared.
On the other hand, the growth of the Web has provoked 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 enlarge 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 propose Internet connection service at all. It's funny that the ISP companies earlier on did not try to convert themselves into web email hosting companies for the consolidation of the ISP industry.
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The size of the Web will continue to increase 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 clients, 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 flow 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 period, the coming of the third wave may not be an exception either.