Go Daddy President and COO Warren Adelman presents Wednesday morning at Parallels Summit
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — One of the early keynotes Wednesday morning at Parallels Summit was delivered by Warren Adelman, president and COO at hosting giant Go Daddy – interesting partly just for the fact that Go Daddy itself is an unusual sight at hosting industry tradeshows, though Adelman has, in the last year or so, become a more regular participant at Parallels events.
His presentation went in a few directions, first to a bit of joking around Go Daddy’s sort-of-notorious, sort-of-tasteless advertising and his own efforts to try something more conservative. Not nearly as successful, it turns out.
The bulk of Adelman’s presentation had to do with the work hosting providers do behind the scenes that customers never really see – IPV6 preparation being one example of that.
The more specific example he offered was the security work that hosting providers do, aside from the things they frame as products for sale.
And the very specific example he used was his own efforts to contact another hosting provider with whom they shared some security issues, and the hostile reaction he received.
Hosts, says Adelman, should not let the fact that they’re competing for an extremely large market get in the way of the fact that they really should be collaborating on handling security for their services, rather than all working separately on the same problems.
Right to the point – Adelman announced that Go Daddy has been working to collaborate with a few other hosting providers (and other services) to create an group called the Hosting Security Forum (www.hostingsecurityforum.org), whose charter members include Trend Micro, Mediatemple, Network Solutions, Parallels, LunarPages, Go Daddy and WordPress.
He said any hosting provider can get involved, and start sharing and receiving shared information on hosting security, as well as helping to define the goals of the organization itself.
He played a video clip from WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, who was very excited about the kind of collaboration that might be possible, for the sake of fighting the bad guys, in the hosting business.
About Liam Eagle
Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements. Follow him on Twitter @liameagle
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