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Just how much is 100 percent? (Editorial).(Web hosting)

By Cohn, Michael
Publication: Internet World
Date: Thursday, May 1 2003

THE WEB HOSTING MARKET HAS CHANGED DRAMATIcally over the years, with consolidation and price cuffing making the services more affordable, but also reducing the number of choices available to businesses. More hosting companies are also trying to bundle services in order to derive more revenue from the surviving business customers they have left. In addition to providing rack space and managing servers and storage, many hosting service. providers also look to manage the applications that run on their customers' Web sites. Reliability is critical in the Web hosting arena, and competi