Thread: Google to move into Mobile and Broadband market

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It's the end of the world I tell thee!

Hosting next.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story...d=networkfront

Free hosting from good within 2 years or less me thinks.

I said this would happen last year and I recall several of you poo-poohing the Idea!

I don't want to be right, but that's yet to happen

Hosting Next? Can't see it myself. People have been predicting this since I started in the industry and it hasn't happened yet. Remember Dell Hosting?... many predicted that would be the end aswell.
In any case, I'm not sure i can see anyone like google moving in on high end managed hosting on a large scale.. it simply can't be automated, so that to me seems to be the place to be over the next two years at least.

Originally Posted by markcastle

In any case, I'm not sure i can see anyone like google moving in on high end managed hosting on a large scale.. it simply can't be automated, so that to me seems to be the place to be over the next two years at least.

Aye,

that was my general musing at the time..

They will start offering free Control Paneled entry level hosting accounts (ie just add web hosting to the Gmail Accounts / GDrive thing)

I'm not worried for our Core business.

J

I think with all that datacentre space they might be looking at some sort of budget/free hosting service, doubt its anything to worry about unless you are yahoo or microsoft.

Nope, most customers worth having will be the ones that want the quick support/custom hosting stuff.

Its just going to be mainly the bottom feeders that would go for google et al. for this.

Was reading the other day that google also are building a trans pacific pipe between the US and Asia to cut their bandwidth costs...

Yep, was on slashdot i think. Although i seem to vaguely remember something about them just using 1 pair of a multicore fibre link. I may be wrong though.

Remember seeing them hiring last year for netops with experience in DF.

Google already do hosting, they offer a site builder already.

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We've seen a few clients move onto Google's e-mail service, so they can pick up their e-mails through G-Mail.

Google can do anything, they have the man power and money, if they really wanted to they could build a huge DC out in the states (they already have several), pack it with clustered hardware and offer 1TB of space and bandwidth for $1 /month. But it wouldn't fit into their advertising business. So it will be free, with Google AdSense plastered all over the sites, something people do anyway on their sites, so for many people I'm sure it would make sense.

But this won't mean the market will suddenly shrink overnight. We're luckily enough to be in a growing industry with expanding uses.

People said Yahoo would take over the hosting world, customers that moved to us from them tell us a different story. It'll be much the same with Google, sure it'll be fine for the odd little site that people want as a hobby, same as the MS freebie thing is, but for anything more, you're going to need real support from real people, not some automated system.