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What Web Hosting is For | test — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:44:29 +0000

[...] Here’s how I figure. Honestly, Google does do a great job at email. And, we’re still offering everything we used to. And, offering easier integration with Google Apps / Gmail was one of our top 5 most popular suggestions. And, we’re still not worried about Google getting into web hosting, as I explained two years ago! [...]

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By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:22:33 +0000

As there are millions of webhosting company so I don’t think google will enter in this saturated market where all the time they have to keep watch on their clients. Google is best and will remain well known for there services in future.

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Web Hosting Finds Blog » Why Web Hosting is Here to Stay — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:08:35 +0000

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By: najdorf

najdorf — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:25:48 +0000

From what i understand google is great for software but i dont think they would get into hosting cause of the “support” they would have to handle

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:24:37 +0000

dreamhost is the new google :)

By: Shish

Shish — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:41:29 +0000

They just afraid to switch it to opened registration because they afraid of overloads and errors

AFAIK google’s official position is that they take products out of beta once they start becoming profitable enough to pay for themselves — if they go for several years and never turn a profit google can turn them off, and nobody can complain since they accepted the “it’s beta, deal with it” agreement.

By: Dialer

Dialer — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:57:16 +0000

Yes, Google is significant company. Someone told that he likes it like a brother, and thhink that this is elder brother for me (yonger brother I have in real%)). I like innovation technologies they use and I even copy some their ideas in my development works.. But as for hosting, I don’t think they will provide it. Look at Gmai.com. This service is in BETA for a damn long time, while it works rather stable. They just afraid to switch it to opened registration because they afraid of overloads and errors that will appera. This rearness is not empty thing. That will hurt company barnd, because everybody relay Google and if something will go wrong this level of confidence will go down in ppl minds.
That why I state that Google will not provide hosting in in the near future. Hosting business is rather risk deal. Even if they decide to provide somth like hosting I think it will be free (just not to take much responsibility) and with some special limitations. Or they invent new superstable hosting technology and in that case all hosting will cry D))

By: 99

99 — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:03:46 +0000

Maybe I’m asking for failure, but are the people who inevitably post about outages trolls from 1+1? I’m not a pro-DH anti-troll or anything, but I haven’t experienced any noticable downtime in a year, and only once since I started hosting (um, three years now)?

And I third or fourth the comments above about being able to do myself. I switched way back in the day when 9NetAve (then XO, I think?) was throttling CPUs so much I couldn’t get a default install of Discus to post a single message. I never want to worry about configuring a web server. Ever.

One click installs, automatic updates, and pricing that is pretty much the equivalent to free, even if Google decides to roll out the exact same package tomorrow (which they surely wouldn’t), I wouldn’t switch. Y’all made hosting a financially viable option for some pretty fancy things compared to the competition (does anyone remember what it was like trying to get MT up and running about three years ago?), and that is worth long-time loyalty from me.

By: Shii

Shii — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:47:36 +0000

IHOPs are nasty. Homemade pancakes are the ones with expertise.

The same doesn’t go for webhosting, though. Cottage webhosting is kind of dangerous. DreamHost is much better just because it’s reliable and doesn’t break when Mr. Friendly Linux Geek upgrades to IPv6.