s no secret that there has been an on-going war over customers in the web hosting industry for many years. Together with the technical evolution of computer hardware, this fierce competition has drastically increased what you get for your money when you buy a web hosting account.
The people behind Pingdom originally came from the web hosting industry, so we tend to keep an eye on the development in that industry out of sheer curiosity (aside from the fact that we have a lot of web hosting companies as customers, so we deal with them on a daily basis). We know that the changes in what the hosting industry offers have been enormous, but we wanted to find out exactly how much things have changed.
Reaching 10 years into the past
Thanks to the good old Wayback Machine, we were able to look at archived web pages of a few web hosting companies that were active 10 years ago. We selected Dreamhost, Liquidweb and Hostway, for no other reason than them being well-known today and that they were around 10 years ago.
We looked at three things. The price of a regular, consumer-oriented shared web hosting account, and how much storage space and data transfer (traffic) was included in that account. And boy have things changed.
Let us visualize the change for you.
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