Four Easy Ways to Tell They Love You - Part 2: Vanity

Posted on 2008-04-10

Vanity searches are searches one conducts on his/her own name. Apparently the practice is common enough to have a wikipedia entry. I consider vanity searches as the virtual equivalent of a credit check - to see what mischief is being conducted in you

New Go Daddy ad is "100 percent Go Daddy-esque!"

Posted on 2007-11-07

Today we wrote about Go Daddy's newest set of commercials starring the company's newest Go Daddy girl Amanda Beard, which will be airing for the first time this weekend during the ESPN2 Saturday Night College Football Primetime.

Windows Server 2008 Hosting Roadshow

Posted on 2007-10-16

Verio's viaVerio Partner Summit

Posted on 2007-09-21

Verio's viaVerio Partner Summit 2007 wrapped up today after two days of presentations and workshops dedicated to helping resellers learn more about Verio's partners and offerings and to get a sneak peak at the future direction of the company.

Tier 1's Hosting Transformation Summit-Day 2

Posted on 2007-09-20

Tier 1 Research's Hosting Transformation Summit continued on Wednesday with another full day of uber-informative panels and sessions following up on the event's themes of managed hosting, the evolving data center space and infrastructure as well as f

Tier 1's Hosting Transformation Summit-Day 1

Posted on 2007-09-19

Tier 1 Research's third annual Hosting Transformation Summit kicked off on Tuesday at The Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with a full-day of panels and sessions surrounding everything from the next-generation of managed hosting, to tip

HostingCon 2007-Interview with Sandip Gupta

Posted on 2007-09-06

HostingCon 2007-Interview with Paul Stapleton, DH Capital

Posted on 2007-08-29

HostingCon 2007 - Interview with Richard Rosenblatt, Demand Media

Posted on 2007-08-21

365 Main Faces Outage

July 25, 2007 -- An explosion in San Francisco, California on Tuesday knocked out power to about 51,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers including data center provider 365 Main's facility.

LT Pact 2007 - Day 2

Posted on 2007-06-25

Layered Technologies' second annual partner event LT Pact 2007 continued on Friday with a full day of sessions and panels furthering the dialogue on the advantages of grid and utility computing.

LTPact 2007 - Day 1

Posted on 2007-06-22

On Thursday we checked out the first day of Layered Technologies' second annual partner event LT Pact 2007, held at the schwanky Caesar's Palace in the city that never sleeps, Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite having heard some mixed reviews from organizers

Promoting Your Blog with Social Bookmarking

2007-06-15

Promoting Your Blog with Social BookmarkingOnce you have your business or personal blog set up, there is a vast collection of online tools and services you can use to promote your blog and increase the popularity of your Web site and content....

SWsoft Hosting Summit - Interview with Serguei Beloussov, SWsoft

Posted on 2007-05-16

As you've probably been reading in Liam's blog, the WHIR was down in Virginia for SWsoft's second annual global hosting partner summit and this time around WHIR TV was also on location for the action.

SWsoft Hosting Summit - Thinking Outside the Virtual Box

Posted on 2007-05-15

I've got a few more posts to make following the SWsoft summit last week - Internet lawyer and WHIR blogger David Snead made a pretty excellent presentation; I had a very interesting conversation with Microsoft's Michael van Dijken regarding t

WHD 2007 - Interview with Marco Houwen, Datacenter Luxembourg

Posted on 2007-05-11

While at Webhosting Day 2007 WHIR TV also met up with Marco Houwen, the COO and co-founder of Datacenter Luxembourg and inquired about what business opportunities he believed were available in Europe for foreign companies as well as the benefits of e

SWsoft Global Hosting Partner Summit - Growth in the Hosting Market

Posted on 2007-05-09

The somewhat more subdued second day of the SWsoft Global Hosting Partner Summit, currently taking place in Reston, Virginia, began with a keynote session by IDC analyst Melanie Posey.

SWsoft Global Hosting Partner Summit - Show Notes

Posted on 2007-05-08

Hosting software provider SWsoft began its Global Hosting Partner Summit today, May 8, kicking things off with an introductory keynote presentation by CEO Serguei Beloussov.

WHIR Magazine, the May 2007 Issue: Building Blocks

Posted on 2007-05-07

We just sent the May 2007 issue of WHIR magazine off to the printer, which is good news, because we're just about out of midnight oil around here (it having been all burned up, you see).

WHD 2007 - Interview with Derek Wueppelmann, Roaring Penguin

Posted on 2007-05-03

WHIR TV also caught up with email filtering services provider Roaring Penguin while at Webhosting Day 2007 and caught up with Derek Wueppelmann, a sales engineer with the company to gain some insight into the state of the virus and spam landscape in

WHD 2007 - Interview with Nora Cotter, Sedo

Posted on 2007-05-02

While at Webhosting Day 2007, WHIR TV stopped by at domain marketplace operator Sedo's booth to chat with Nora Cotter, Sedo's UK/International director of operations.

Prolonging the Old-Fashioned Messaging Marketplace

Posted on 2007-04-25

We posted a feature today discussing the launch of Concentric Hosting's new Perimeter Email Protection service, for which I had the opportunity to speak with Nate Gilmore, the company's director of marketing.

In Case it Wasn't Clear, Google is Your Biggest Competition

Posted on 2007-04-23

We have mentioned, here and there, that the mass market for Web hosting customers could be out of your grasp at this point. As we have also described at length, that market is now the almost-exclusive province of the very biggest Internet brands - Go

AIT Calling out Click Fraud Again. Are You a Victim?

Posted on 2007-04-19

It's been a few years, now, that AIT has been a Web hosting provider crusading against click fraud. The matter has been a bit of a personal quest for CEO Clarence Briggs, who in 2005 led a class action lawsuit against Google itself, attempting to lay

Are Antitrust Concerns About Google and DoubleClick Real?

Posted on 2007-04-17

Following Google's announcement Friday that it had acquired Internet ad serving giant DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, companies such as Microsoft and AT&T quickly began to voice their concerns about the potential antitrust concerns, urging regulators t

TheWHIR and WHIRtv Reporting from SWsoft Hosting Summit

Posted on 2007-04-13

Now that SWsoft has finalized the lineup of sponsors and presenters for its Hosting Summit event in May, and our attendance is in the books, I thought I'd offer another heads up on theWHIR's attendance of another upcoming event.

Just How Much Money Does the .com Increase Mean For VeriSign?

Posted on 2007-04-13

We reported last week that VeriSign had announced increases to the registry fees for the .com and .net domains.

Webhosting Day 2007 - Significance of the Event

Posted on 2007-04-12

WHIR TV was recently on location in Cologne, Germany for Europe's largest Web hosting conference, Webhosting Day 2007. And while the WHIR's editor-in-chief Liam Eagle has been bringing you in-depth coverage of the sessions themselves and their impli

Check out our WebhostingDay 2007 Photo Gallery

Posted on 2007-04-11

WebhostingDay 2007, as has been mentioned here, took place near Cologne, Germany at the end of March. And as was also mentioned here, theWHIR was in attendance.

A Few More Notes on the Hostway-Affinity Deal

Posted on 2007-04-04

As you might have already read, Hostway announced today that it has acquired Affinity Internet, adding another company to the short list of Major Players in the shared Web hosting space.

Notes from Webhosting Day 2007: Evangelizing SaaS

Posted on 2007-04-02

Webhosting Day, as you are possibly aware, ended last week. But the thoughts continue. Particularly those that have yet to be written and published.

Notes From Webhosting Day 2007: How Are You Going to Profit from Web 2.0?

Posted on 2007-03-27

Web 2.0 - the user experience - and its potential to affect or enhance the operation of a hosting business is something touched on regularly among these blogs.