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Article published 30 October 2000: "Web hosting is a phenomenon that spans the converging worlds of telecommunications and IT. It arises out of the hardware-oriented concept of a telecommunications hotel, that is to say, a secure physical plant in which network infrastructure, including switches and routers, and IT capacity, meaning servers, is housed. Ovum includes data centres within the definition of telecommunications hotel. Today data centres are usually functionally identical, but owe their description to an orientation towards data and computers, rather than bandwidth and cables." Web hosting providers* (WHPs) are a functional, but not necessarily otherwise discrete, subset of telecommunications hotels/data centres. Presumably, a telecoms hotel or data centre need not offer Web hosting, although today most will, but a WHP must own, rent, or otherwise have access to network infrastructure and servers. |
