Are Web Hosting going the way of dinosaurs? If that is the case, I am staying far away from the tar pits! I don’t think Web hosting folks have too much to worry about. Why? There will always be somebody too lazy to do this work themselves - so they will need a Web host to step in and take control.
This change is paramount. Computer users today are finding themselves with very fast permanent home-connections, as well as powerful server systems hidden behind fancy icons. They are realizing that there is no point in paying a hosting company to have a web site: they can just run their own.
The IP address changes? That’s not a problem: there’s dynamic DNS, free of charge, that comes to rescue. Everybody is becoming “a bit of a system administrator”, where their computer hosts their web sites, their photo album, or their music. Quite a few issues still remain, especially for security or problem solving when something “goes wrong”. However, none of these problems are really new: how many spam zombies run happily in client-only, Windows machines? How many times do client machines crash?
I have to say though, this is pretty interesting to think about.
