Okay. I admit it. I copied.
I find myself reading Liam’s ‘Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup‘ pretty frequently to keep abreast of the latest special offers from web hosts. There are also now a number of great blogs which are written by hosting experts at the web hosting companies themselves. So I thought it might be helpful to have an overview of what the various web hosting blogs are commenting on these days. I’ll try to include a wide range of companies and blogs when I give the roundup. So here goes.
Rackspace – Our first blog is the Official Rackspace Blog brought to you by the creators of Fanatical Support. The latest entries are: a self promotional piece pointing to a customer testimonial about how Rackspace support was available on Christmas eve. Also entered is ‘A Quantitative Comparison of Rackspace and Amazon Cloud Storage Solutions‘. This was a pointer to the original piece written up in the Mosso blog. Still a great piece of research and data for those interested in Cloud computing.
Apollo Hosting – The Apollo Hosting Owner’s Blog is written by the owner of Apollo Hosting, Tamara Field. Now I’ll be the first to admit that as an entrepreneur myself, I’m somewhat biased – but Ms. Field’s ‘Five Ways To Start A Small Business In A Bad Economy‘ is exactly what I am looking for in a hosting blog post. Real information that solves a real problem and helps me grow my business. Wow. Did I mention that the piece is written with real authority? Well done and must read.
The Planet – Onward to The Planet Blog brought to us by the dedicated server experts at The Planet. Now I have to tell you that I haven’t really followed this blog that much lately, but I didn’t really get the latest post. It’s entitled, ‘Your IT Report Card‘ and the author takes us back to college to see an actual scan of his report card. Of course the guy got straight A’s. Oh, wait. He got one A-. So somehow that winds around to a survey that The Planet is conducting with various professional and educational groups. I guess it is more interesting that just saying, ”Hey – guess what? We’re conducting a survey!”. I was favorably impressed with the previous post on The Information Technology Effectiveness Index (ITEI). This is a survey that evaluates the effectiveness of an SMB IT infrastructure.
34SP.com – Here’s an entry from ‘across the pond’. The latest post from UK hosting company 34SP.com was a story that made it all around the UK. The piece was picked up by the BBC and TechCrunch UK as well. ‘34SP.com Client Mashes Up Snowfall‘ tells about a 34SP.com customer who created a mashup using Twitter and Google Maps to track the levels of snow during recent blizzard conditions in the UK. It asked Twitter users to Tweet in with how much snow had fallen and then tracked that data onto a map of the UK. Another excellent blog post – cool information, an innovative idea, and it involves a web hosting aspect as well.
Parallels – Coming off the success of their recent Summit, hosting automation company Parallels has posted a followup reporting that they are going to attend WebhostingDay 2009. Now this is a fairly straightforward blog post with one very notable exception. They have free passes to the event. Pardon me for just a moment while I sign up for free. Okay. That was easy. Thank you Parallels! So in summary – you can catch up with me or the representatives from Parallels at WebhostingDay 2009.
SingleHop – Our final blog entry is from the SingleHop Official Blog. The acronym-laden post entitled, ‘cPanel WHM and SSL — 10 Easy Steps!‘ is a step by step tutorial complete with graphics for setting up secure sites via WHM. Very useful information in the event that you need to set up secure transactions. There are also previous entries on site maintenance and system upgrades.
I hope that you have enjoyed this first roundup of web hosting blogs. Look for another roundup soon!
About Derek Vaughan
Derek Vaughan has been actively marketing on the Internet since 1995. His extensive online marketing experience includes the online direct marketing of books for $300 million per year NYSE traded book publisher Thomas Nelson. Mr. Vaughan also marketed products online at the Walt Disney Company as the online marketing manager of ecommerce for ESPN.com. He was also the marketing manager for the launch of the NASCAR Online Store in October of 1999.
More recently Mr. Vaughan turned his attention to online marketing for the Affinity Internet, Inc. family of companies - which owns a broad portfolio of web hosting brands. Additionally, Mr. Vaughan served as Vice President of Marketing for Aplus.Net and helped them establish a strong position in the web hosting field. Derek has also serverd as the VP of Marketing at HostMySite.com.
Derek Vaughan holds undergraduate degrees from both Indiana University and Purdue University, and has earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Owen School at Vanderbilt University.
Through his theWHIR blog, Derek will touch upon online marketing in the Web hosting space, web hosting events and industry trends.
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