As technology has advanced over the years, prices of all things relating to computers have consistently fallen. This is also evident in web hosting over the years. Looking back at the web hosting I had when I started in 1997, it is just amazing at how much pricing has come way down, AND features are way up! Hostgator is a very competitive host these days and their feature-set is too numerous to list in this article, and even with that their monthly price is a small fraction of what standard hosting cost in 1997.

Below is a snapshot of the hosting in 1997

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Nowadays, for under $10 a month you can host many websites on that single plan. Plus get hundreds of GIGABYTES of website storage space, and more bandwidth a month than you’d probably ever use!