Oct 21 2007
Home Multimedia Meets Hosting
There is a new world of do-it-yourself hosting on the horizon. I have noticed that new homes built in the past few years nearly always have a particular feature: structured wiring. This separate "foundation" which centralizes different cabling in your home is now standard in blueprints. This will become the norm and finding a data panel in the closet will become as normal as finding a television in the living room. But now we are not only limited to high definition television, being spoiled with higher speeds while surfing the web, remote controls that master everything from the lights to lawn sprinklers, or refrigerators that can order more groceries. Now we can host sites from our living room.
In the past two weeks there has been a lot of talk about the new Windows Home Server. Will this finally begin to crack open the once hard shell of hosting from home? Do you think hosting from home will remain at its current lull or will this trend actually speed up in the next few years? Will the "do-it-yourselfers" continue to find ways to remain independent or will they miss the customer service aspect of web hosting and the ideas they can gain from industry knowledge? And with Fiber To The Home (FTTH) service expanding rapidly, should old-fashioned web hosts be afraid?
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