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>Also, in the 90s, many small businesses self-hosted on tower PCs connected by fractional T1s You were lucky you weren't on a 14.4 kbps modem sharing a phone l
by dispose13432 10y ago
>Also, in the 90s, many small businesses self-hosted on tower PCs connected by fractional T1s
You were lucky you weren't on a 14.4 kbps modem sharing a phone line with the family, on a dynamic IP, and had an extra PC to devote to hosting a website which could stay on 24/7.
Oh, and weren't scared that someone would hack into your home network just for fun.
> Some shared hosting providers allowed persistent processes
Most didn't.
> PHP was successful because it was embedded in the HTML which lowered the barrier of entry. That's the only reason.
No. That's not the _only_ reason. Right now, unless $5/10 a month is too much, you can get root on a VPS on DO.
How much did these features cost back then?