• Web hosting before 1992 didn’t exist in the way that we see today.

• Although the Internet has grown from an idea of JCR Licklider, in 1962 (who spoke about the so-called "Galactic Network"), materialized in the first "network" of computers in 1965 and the first email communication in 1971, didn’t became a tool in public until 1991, when the NSF (National Science Foundation) has decided to lift restrictions on the world wide web.

• Once the web access was allowed to a large number of people the need for "hosting" sites appeared. And a particularly important role in the development of business services have had "free hosting".

• In 1995, 16 million of people had Internet access. The average speed was 28.8K, and Geocities was among the first free-hosting services. Their offer: 1MB of space, supported by banners with the web site builder, without FTP access. Tripod offers both FTP access and 2 MB. In the same time AngelFire offered 35KB space on its own servers.

• 3 years later, in 1998, the number of users increased almost tenfold, but not evolved very much average speed: 33.6k. Geocities offers 10MB, javascript and CGI support and is one of the first services to offer so-called "unlimited space" – Xoom, who in the same time has a limitation on file size of 1MB.

• In 1999, the total number of users exceeded 240 million and released their first blogging services: Blogger and Live Journal. That same year, Yahoo was buying GeoCities  with nearly $ 4 billion but it proved to be a poor investment, in 2009 the service was limited to use strictly on Japan.

• Other milestones in the evolution of web site hosting and in overcoming limitations are launching MySpace, first social networking and YouTube, the largest video-sharing service.

• 2008 is a terminal point for the traditional web hosting: the focus is increasingly more social, and Web hosting companies need to support their customers in this new phase of online hosting.