The WHIR's web hosting industry feature reports offers in-depth analysis of the web hosting industry and comprehensive interviews.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, March 6, 2012
March 6, 2012 — Johannesburg-based ICT services and solutions provider Dimension Data sees a huge opportunity, and developed its range of cloud services around the idea of enabling hosts to resell cloud services at their own pace as they grow.
by Justin Lee - Thursday, March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012 — At some point, the founder of almost any business will face a decision about whether to continue in their leadership role when the company reaches certain pivotal milestones around growth, financing and other concerns that aren’t necessarily tied directly into the entrepreneurial notions that sparked the business.
by Nicole Henderson - Thursday, March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012 — There are many ways to integrate video into a social media, marketing or customer service strategy, and the WHIR has rounded up five videos that provide a glimpse into different approaches that web hosts can take when delivering video content to their customers.
by Liam Eagle - Wednesday, February 29, 2012
February 29, 2012 — Earlier this month at its big user conference and summit, the Parallels Summit 2012, web hosting software provider Parallels released the results of a study of the hosting market: its Parallels SMB Cloud Insight for the United States, 2012 report.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, February 28, 2012
February 28, 2012 — There isn’t much need for another study concluding that security is a road block to cloud adoption – plenty of research has proven that security in the cloud is a primary concern for enterprises. What security provider CloudPassage sought to figure out in its survey of 164 US-based IT professionals was what specific security issues concerned enterprises about public clouds.
by Liam Eagle - Monday, February 27, 2012
February 27, 2012 — On Monday, security monitoring service provider AlertLogic released the results of a study that might help hosting providers face that challenge – they suggest, in both general and specific terms that the variety and frequency of threats was greater in on-premise environments.
by Liam Eagle - Friday, February 24, 2012
February 24, 2012 — At this point, there are more than 50 million WordPress-based sites on the Internet, making blogging and content management system the single most popular tool for creating websites. WordPress is a decision many customers make before they even begin to look for a hosting provider.
by Nicole Henderson - Thursday, February 23, 2012
February 23, 2012 — For small and medium-businesses, one of the barriers to creating an online presence is having the budget to hire a professional web designer. When web hosts offer a website building tool as a value-added service, they can reach out to customers they may not have had access to before. Below is a list of five different website builders that web hosts can offer their customers.
by Liam Eagle - Wednesday, February 22, 2012
February 21, 2012 — SiteLock’s recently- appointed executive vice president of business development Tom Serani – a veteran of several organizations that regard partnership with the hosting channel as a key to their business – conducted an email Q&A with the WHIR, answering some more questions about the malware threat and the company’s solution.
by Nicole Henderson - Friday, February 17, 2012
February 17, 2012 — In an email interview with the WHIR, Anirban Banerjee, co-founder and VP of R&D for StopTheHacker, explained five critical malware threats to hosting businesses, and how these threats can jeopardize your brand and customers.
by Justin Lee - Wednesday, February 15, 2012
February 15, 2012 — As security within the cloud continues to be one of the top concerns for many companies and end users, cloud-based data security provider Porticor has officially launched its Porticor Virtual Private Data System service to ensure that customers’ data stored in the cloud is fully secure.
by Liam Eagle - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10 – 2012 — Yahoo Small Business is taking the “trusted advisor” principle a step farther these days with the development of its Yahoo Small Business Advisor site, an information portal that puts the advisory role before even the service provider relationship.
