How VOIP has helped change web hosting

There’s really no way to stop VOIP (voice over internet protocol) and internet telephony in general. This technology has rapidly and relentlessly spread its tentacles across the network in a very short period of time and now poses a clear threat to the old established telephone companies around the world and the world of communications and telecommunications as we knew it. . In the process, VOIP has helped change web hosting in many ways.

For the most part, it has raised demands for web hosting that previously simply did not exist. VOIP requires a stable and extremely reliable link and excellent service from a web server in order to work efficiently. The fact that the corporate world has quickly embraced VOIP, saving colossal fortunes in phone company bills and associated costs, has meant that only the best web hosting companies have reaped the windfall.

With non-VOIP web hosting, it is extremely easy to get away with poor quality and unreliable service. But with VOIP, and especially where most corporate businesses require lines of communication to remain open all the time, shoddy or poor quality web hosting companies are usually quickly identified and abandoned. This is a far cry from the early days of web hosting, where many web hosting servers were located in basements and school dormitories. They were mostly run by hobbyists as an extremely profitable part-time venture that practically required very little attention that could occasionally be provided during their spare time.

They mostly got away with this level of service because the internet was still relatively new in those days. In addition to the lack of awareness in those days, most people barely cared, let alone fully understood, the impact web hosting has on any e-commerce or online business. Not being able to access a website wasn’t really a big problem.

In fact, we’ve come a long way because webmasters these days spend fortunes in cash and time to drive traffic and usually get very upset when their hard-earned traffic can’t get to their site for some reason. It means that they are losing money and at the same time damaging their reputation and public image.