A trip back in time with webhosting.

StopGeek.com is running on (MT) Media Temple’s cluster Servers. The allotted specs are 100GB of diskspace, and 1TB (1000GB) of bandwidth. Not bad for the price. But, what was it like five or six years ago?

Hostgator

Hostgator Then
Hostgator Now

Resources Then

• 500 MB Space
  15GB Transfer
  for $9.95 monthly
• 1GB Space
  25GB Transfer
  for $14.95 monthly
• 5GB Space
  100GB Transfer
  for $49.95 monthly

Resources Now

Dreamhost

Dreamhost Then
Dreamhost Now

Resources Then

• 30MB Space
  for $9.95 a monthly.
• 60MB Space
  for $17.95 monthly.
• 70MB Space
  for $23.95 monthly.

Resources Now

Site5

Site5 Then
Site5 Now

Resources Then

• 500 MB Space
  10GB Transfer
  for $9.95 monthly

Resources Now

So, why such drastic changes in the pricing and plan structures of web plans?
Hardware technology increased and it’s price decreased, average file sized increased, streaming videos, photo’s, etc.

That was back in the day when having more than one network provider was almost unheard of… oh man, we’ve come a long way. Makes you wonder where the industry will be 5 years from now.

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