Comments on: Google Hosting – why Google will target the hosting industry next http://infreemation.net/google-hosting-why-google-will-target-the-hosting-industry-next/ information superconductor Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: nudecybot http://infreemation.net/google-hosting-why-google-will-target-the-hosting-industry-next/#comment-651 nudecybot Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:38:00 +0000 http://www.nudecybot.net/?p=47#comment-651 Yeah Cringely is pretty on top of things - the ISP rumours are a bit silly after all why be the ISP when you can host the the content? Do you want to be the airwaves or the TV channel who produces content and sells ads? Hell if you can get everyone to produce valuable content for you...and for free then you are laughing all the way to the bank with your advertising dough. Thats Google. I think Google will do the consumer/small biz hosting for awhile before coming out with an enterprise version that will knock the socks off Akamai. I guess I forgot to mention Google Base as YET ANOTHER example of these guys providing new channels to their advertising. In fact you can think of it as their "hosting lite" niche solution. Look for people to do the same kinds of things on Google Base that they do with their websites. Yeah Cringely is pretty on top of things – the ISP rumours are a bit silly after all why be the ISP when you can host the the content? Do you want to be the airwaves or the TV channel who produces content and sells ads? Hell if you can get everyone to produce valuable content for you…and for free then you are laughing all the way to the bank with your advertising dough. Thats Google.

I think Google will do the consumer/small biz hosting for awhile before coming out with an enterprise version that will knock the socks off Akamai.

I guess I forgot to mention Google Base as YET ANOTHER example of these guys providing new channels to their advertising. In fact you can think of it as their “hosting lite” niche solution. Look for people to do the same kinds of things on Google Base that they do with their websites.

]]> By: Alistair http://infreemation.net/google-hosting-why-google-will-target-the-hosting-industry-next/#comment-650 Alistair Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:28:00 +0000 http://www.nudecybot.net/?p=47#comment-650 Heh. Nicely put. Kirsten found a great Cringely article: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html That leads me to wonder: At what point will Google become eminent domain? This is certainly an interesting initial foray into hosting, but public websites are still the minority of HTTP traffic. But once the infrastructure is in place for an overlay network, then Google could affordably transport corporate traffic (this time at realistic pricing, unlike the sacrifice-privacy-for-low-prices world consumers live in. And it makes you wonder: What will firewalls look like in the future? The app is split up now, between AJAX on the client, the Google overlay network, and the app servers. Gets pretty hard to troubleshoot. Heh. Nicely put. Kirsten found a great Cringely article:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html

That leads me to wonder: At what point will Google become eminent domain? This is certainly an interesting initial foray into hosting, but public websites are still the minority of HTTP traffic. But once the infrastructure is in place for an overlay network, then Google could affordably transport corporate traffic (this time at realistic pricing, unlike the sacrifice-privacy-for-low-prices world consumers live in.

And it makes you wonder: What will firewalls look like in the future? The app is split up now, between AJAX on the client, the Google overlay network, and the app servers. Gets pretty hard to troubleshoot.

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