How web hosting has changed | Do you obsess over your pagespeed score? | News from around the hosting industry

 
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Subject: How web hosting has changed | Do you obsess over your pagespeed score? | News from around the hosting industry
Date: January 3rd 2024

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January 3rd 2024

How web hosting has changed

The start of a new year is often cause to reflect on the past, so Phil started this thread on 1st January by commenting that web hosting is a lot different in 2024 than it was a few years ago, and offering a quick review. The biggest change he perceives is that a simple control panel like Virtualmin or cPanel can no longer take care of everything and no single hosting provider is good at everything. Things like domain registration, DNS, mail accounts, uptime monitoring, spam protection, DoS protection, backups and billing are all now typically done by third-party specialist services (some free, some not so much). He's pleased to add that the good news is that it all works much better than before and if one of the third parties fails or starts charging too much it's easy to switch. By contrast, Phil's understanding of "the bad news" is that all this separation complicates the "on-boarding" process no end, as illustrated by the list of tasks he's put together in the thread. What are the major changes you've experienced over the past few years, and are you looking forward to an easier hosting life, because of the automation now available, this coming year?

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Do you obsess over your pagespeed score?

BoxFly asks if you obsess over your pagespeed score? He does - He can't help himself! He's got his up to 97 out of 100 but he's a perfectionist and wants 100/100 which he admits is pretty unachievable. He recently switched from WordPress to HTML, and it was night and day difference performance wise. What follows is a debate over what different members feel is the minimum acceptable score (which varies from member to member) and what steps are taken to increase pagespeed. How much does using a CDN help? And the important question that soon becomes a point of debate in the thread is whether pagespeed actually affects your search engine rankings, based on the premise that slow sites negatively affect visitor experience. What is the effect of Google's decision to use a mobile style crawler to visit sites?  Are they limiting bandwidth to mimic mobile data transfer speeds? There are a number of unanswered or debatable points being raised - Can you help with some actual factual information?

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News from around the hosting industry

Our Industry News section is the place to find current headlines from around the world of hosting and infrastructure, but other general interest threads pop up in other sections of the forum, especially our Web Hosting Lounge. Here we highlight just a selection of some of the interesting items from around the forum:

  • ICANN rolls out new WHOIS pilot - According to a LinkedIn post by Brian Beckham of WIPO, this voluntary service, called the RDRS (Registration Data Request Service), is being run on a trial basis and is free to use for anyone anywhere in the world. He argues that the RDRS is beneficial in that it standardizes WHOIS information requests in a single centralized global platform, and in that relays your request to a participating registrar. ICANN will assess the pilot considering future policy work. Tucows's head of compliance Reg Levy pointed out that The Registrar Stakeholder Group standardized requests years ago (from which ICANN adopted for RDRS requests) and that you can request previously-public whois data from any registrar using that standard whether or not they're participating in the RDRS pilot.
  • New Adriatic subsea cable system launched - Telecom Italia's Sparkle confirms the development of GreenMed, a new subsea cable system across the Adriatic Sea connecting Italy to Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, to Greece and Turkey, and into the Mediterranean. It's reported that starting from Italy's Adriatic coast, the system will connect by land to Milan and then to the other major European internet and cloud nodes. The Balkan digital market is forecast to grow at 25%, and this project will support its development with a secure and diversified route in addition to the existing terrestrial backbones. The Greek island of Crete will also connect to the GreenMed system.
  • Scala expands with another Brazilian data center - They went live mid-December with its first data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The new facility SPOAPA01 will offer 4.8MW of capacity. SPOAPA01 is the result of $48 million in investment and will be dedicated to hyperscale customers. Scala has nine data centers in operation across Brazil, Chile and Mexico. It is planning expand into Colombia next.
  • New European edge platform Portus Data Centers launched - European investment firm Acrus Infrastructure Partners recently announced the launch and its acquisition of data center and ISP IPHH Internet Port Hamburg. The acquisition of IPHH follows its acquisition of a newly developed data center in Munich from SpaceNet AG, a local IT services provider, and the acquisition of Luxembourg based data center firm European Data Hub earlier last year. Portus Data Centers is a growing network of secure data centers in strategic regional locations in Germany and adjacent countries. It currently comprises four facilities in the key regional data center locations of Hamburg, Munich and Luxembourg. These facilities provide low latency regional colocation solutions to enterprise businesses and resilient edge infrastructure for CDN, cloud and telecoms providers delivering high-speed services to local enterprises, government and other users.

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