Interview with Lou Honick

Posted on 2009-11-30

Often people ask me about Lou Honick, founder and former CEO of HostMySite.  Lou retired from HostMySite about a year ago, so I thought I would interview him for this blog. As you can see from his responses below, Lou has been very busy since he

HostingCon Puts Website Hosting in Focus

Posted on 2009-08-11

This is the second day of HostingCon 2009, and there have been many great educational sessions, a sold out exhibit hall filled with hosting vendors, and plenty of opportunities for networking with other web hosting professionals - many of them from o

Millitzer Presenting at HostingCon - Bring Your Family

Posted on 2009-05-14

If you have not heard, I am presenting  “Dissecting a Hosting Company Acquisition” at HostingCon on Wednesday August 12th. Hosting executives were doing back flips when this was announced.

HostingCon Speakers Selected

Posted on 2009-04-30

I have been a speaker at every single edition of HostingCon since its inception. Thanks to an email that I received the other day my string will be unbroken. The email read in part:

ISPCON IS DEAD

Posted on 2009-02-26

The last ISPCON had the feeling of, well, life-support.  Alex Goldman has announced the expected, ISPCON is dead.

iNet Acquires Australian Forum

October 22, 2008 -- iNET Interactive announced earlier this month that it has expanded its online reach with the acquisition of Web Hosting Talk Australia, considered Australia's largest web hosting community.

Video Interview with Sandip Gupta, NetMagic

Posted on 2008-10-21

Since chatting with Sandip Gupta on WHIRtv at HostingCon last year, a LOT has been going on for managed IT service provider NetMagic, including a recently secured $20 million in financing, a rapidly expanding footprint within and outside of India, as

Superb Offers RankSense SEO Suite

October 3, 2008 -- Web hosting provider SuperbHosting announced on Thursday it is offering Nemedia's new RankSense SEO Management Suite.

Layered Tech Expands Services

October 1, 2008 -- Layered Technologies announced on Tuesday its recently completed network upgrades further strengthen its ability to meet the needs of enterprise-class customers for traditional and virtualization platforms.

Macquarie Launches SaaS Incubator

September 25, 2008 -- Web hosting provider Macquarie Hosting announced on Thursday it has launched the Software as a Service Incubator Sandpit for SaaS providers, designers, integrators and independent and enterprise developers.

KEMP Opens European HQ in Germany

September 22, 2008 -- KEMP Technologies announced on Monday it has opened its new European headquarters in Hanover, Germany, as part of the company's global expansion strategy in the application delivery market for small-to-medium businesses.

CM4all Partners with Brazillian ISP

September 18, 2008 -- Web-based applications provider CM4all announced on Thursday it is expanding its business into Latin America through a new partnership with Brazilian Internet service provider iG Empresas.

Go Daddy Redesigns GoDaddy.TV

September 17, 2008 -- Domain registrar and web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Wednesday it has completely redesigned its multimedia component GoDaddy.TV, offering users more videos and interactive content.

Q&A: Michael van Dijken, Microsoft

September 16, 2008 -- An email conversation with Michael van Dijken, Microsoft's lead marketing manager for hosted solutions, about his exit from Microsoft's hosting team and his strategy for the software-plus-services messaging at his new role with the software giant.

Inside OpenSRS - Video Features

Posted on 2008-09-10

Over the summer while at HostingCon, Internet services provider Tucows announced in a rather flashy fashion (we're talking a brightly colored booth with a cheerful illustration of a '50s-era service man and delicious ice cream floats for each attende

Q&A: Paul Hirsch, AIHSP

September 5, 2008 -- Paul Hirsch, one of the founding volunteers for the Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers, discusses the organization's recent call for subcommittee members in an email conversation with the WHIR.

1&1 Announces RatePoint Plans

September 2, 2008 -- After announcing a strategic partnership in late July, customer feedback and reputation management services provider RatePoint will begin offering its website reputation management service to new customers of web host 1&1 Internet.

The Web Host Industry Week in Review

August 29, 2008 -- One of the interesting trends in this week's hosting news was the issuance of data from a selection of surveys, with some of the more significant news of the week coming from more one-off events.

Q&A: Tucows Marketing VP Ken Schafer

August 28, 2008 -- Tucows vice president of marketing and product management Ken Schafer discusses the release of a survey conducted at HostingCon in an email interview with the WHIR.

AIHSP Seeks Pros as Advisers

August 28, 2008 -- The Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers is looking for industry professionals to join five advisory subcommittees, responsible for critiquing and improving the organization's core initiatives.

OpenSRS Announces Web 2.0 Survey

August 25, 2008 -- Internet services provider Tucows announced on Monday it has released the results of a survey conducted by its reseller services group OpenSRS at last month's HostingCon 2008 conference.

iNET Buys Search Marketing Standard

August 20, 2008 -- Print magazine Search Marketing Standard has been acquired by media corporation iNET Interactive in a deal that will expand iNET's media portfolio serving internet professionals and technology enthusiasts.

Rackspace WAS SET UP --- A study in motivation

Posted on 2008-08-19

Rackspace began trading 11 days ago as of this writing …my analysis.

WHIR TV Interviews iNET InteractiveTroy Augustine

August 18, 2008 -- New HostingCon Event Organizer Troy Augustine of iNET Interactive sits down with theWHIR's Anastasia Tubanos about what to expect in 2009.

AtMail Markets with Free Webmail

August 15, 2008 -- While there's certainly room for inventive marketing in the hosting business, there remains a certain uniformity to the way service providers and their suppliers exchange product pitches.

WHIR TV Interviews Paul Hirsch of AIHSP

August 15, 2008 -- The newly formed Web Hosting Association

Lou v. Elliot: Rackspace IPO

Posted on 2008-08-13

One of the issues that came up in the metrics that matter panel at HostingCon was the Rackspace IPO. Rackspace's Red Herring estimated a $12-$16 price.  Lou Honick believed that the IPO would price out in the higer range ($14 to $16) Elliot Noss

WHIR TV Interviews Michael van Dijken of Microsoft

August 11, 2008 -- HostingCon 2008 Interview with Microsoft - WHIRTV.com

HostingCon 2008 Feedback Video from WHIR TV

August 11, 2008 -- WHIR TV gains feedback from the 2008 HostingCon attendees.

HostingCon 2008 - WHIR Coverage Recap

Posted on 2008-08-08

In case you missed the hundred-or-so mentions on the WHIR over the last few weeks, HostingCon 2008 was last week. And we went to considerable lengths to cover the event from every angle - news, blogs, features, WHIR tv. While we're not quite finished

Building Blocks

May 2007