Submission + - Ask ./: Where are the complete hosting providers? 3
Kludge writes: In 2000 there were thousands of email/web hosting businesses. In 2013 not much has changed.
To get my email/web/webmail/domain/VOIP/public-key/XMPP/VPN hosting I have to deal with five different service providers. Where are the complete hosting providers? The absence of competition in this area drives many to Google, making data siphoning easy for the NSA.
Why has hosting not advanced in the last 10 years? Where are the hosting providers that make end-to-end encrypted email/web/VOIP/XMPP easy and automatic for all my clients?
To get my email/web/webmail/domain/VOIP/public-key/XMPP/VPN hosting I have to deal with five different service providers. Where are the complete hosting providers? The absence of competition in this area drives many to Google, making data siphoning easy for the NSA.
Why has hosting not advanced in the last 10 years? Where are the hosting providers that make end-to-end encrypted email/web/VOIP/XMPP easy and automatic for all my clients?
things change (Score:2)
You don't casually run an email server any more (unless you're an idiot). Spammers will eat your lunch. Same with the web providers, the voip providers, even the DNS providers. It's a harsh environment outside the firewalls these days. Back in 2000 it took much less work to avoid being pwned.
And, frankly, the requirements have changed. If you had a web server with unix shell access in 2000, you were the man. Now it's a wordpress installation or a blog site or some mix of very complex LAMP applications.
So, s
Hosting in 2013 (Score:1)