Choosing a Hosting Package – You can have almost anything including hosting with a poker website
A product is not cheap or popular until its being given away with your breakfast cereal. I paid about £200 for my first domain name and my first web hosting package cost similar amount if not more. Fast forward over 10 years from when I bough my first domain name and hosting package and both domain name registration and web hosting are not only being given away free, hosting companies such as 1 and 1 also give you tonnes or software worth hundreds of pounds just to sign you up to their platform. What is even more remarkable about software, packages and services bundled with web hosting is the diverse website niches being bundled and sold of offered free with web hosting including poker websites .
It is quite interesting to look back briefly to where web hosting companies were a few years ago and where they are now in the hope of partly charting how web hosting companies have increased their services not just significantly but radically. The basic web hosting package in the early days tends to come with only a very basic server side script functionality and the only one on offer back then was cgi which made Perl script quite popular in those days, since then ASP.Net and its predecessor ASP and PHP has eclipsed Per (cgi-bin) in popularity.
With the advent of multiple server side scripting capabilities on web hosting servers come more support call from hosting customer as permission and script coding issues particularly from novice webmasters kept the support desk more busy than the hosting companies would like, this led to the hosting companies introducing pre-installed script in cgi-bin so that all the site owner needs to do is reference the script, more demanding users are still allowed to upload their own scripts but the introduction of pre-installed script certainly help the hosting companies reduce the script related support call.
Before long, the scripting help offered by hosting companies became standard with all major hosting companies, which made more adventurous hosting companies to start thinking of how to differentiate their products from the competition, this let to script such as Fantastico which allows hosting customers to install almost all scripts under the sun at the click of a button.
These days, hosting has move much more away from power users requiring complex scripting to newbies who are just doing things on the net by themselves. Most newbies to ecommerce tend to use eBay, it is not much later when they have exploited the potentials of eBay to it limits that they discover the fact that they can have their own website and have an ecommerce shopping sites. This applies to newbies entering various online businesses ranging from selling autographs online to someone setting up a website for poker games .
It is quite extraordinary that web hosting companies employ specialist who have detailed knowledge of niches completely unrelated to web hosting or web development to organise and arrange poker websites so that it can be bundled with with hosting package. But as the opening paragraph of this article started, a product or services can only be considered popular when it start bundling services that are in themselves more expensive than what you are trying to see, normally a poker website is much more expensive to develop than a one year web hosting package.