By Liam Eagle, theWHIR.com
September 4, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The WHIR blogs saw a thick collection of posts last week, more than one of which had to do with well-known Web hosting pundit, and a past WHIR blogger herself, Isabel Wang.
On Tuesday, David Snead http://www.thewhir.com/blogs/David-Snead/index.cfm/2007/8/28/Is-Isabel-Right opined further on the debates he has had with Isabel Wang in the forums presented by events like ISPCON and HostingCon, focusing on the topic of Web 2.0 and SaaS, and the potential those technologies hold for the hosting business. Isabel is a big proponent of Web 2.0 and the potential of the technology. David sees shades of the dot-com boom/bust in the whole thing. But he’ll be attending the Office 2.0 conference in the next week, hopefully discovering the “future of online productivity and collaboration.”
For her part, Isabel Wang is looking past Web hosting these days, as pointed out by Paul Hirsch. In a posting to her own blog, Isabel said some recent events had led her to question the real significance of Web hosting issues to her own life. The answer, it seems, is that it isn’t all that relevant – at least not relevant enough to keep her from heading off in search of the next big thing. As Paul rightly points out, she’ll be missed.
Earlier in the week, Paul Hirsch posted concerning some matters of design. The articles he indicates cover some of the more common issues encountered by Web designers: one of them a discussion of techniques for developing websites for compatibility with a variety of browsers; and the other about common JavaScript programming problems.
Also this week, in the WHIRtv blog, Anastasia posted a transcript and pictures from an interview with Paul Stapleton, managing director at DH Capital, an investment firm with a particular interest in the Web hosting business. In the interview, Stapleton explains his company’s interest in the Web hosting market, and presence at Web hosting events, as well as some of his ideas about advertising as a revenue stream within the hosting business and outside investment in the industry.
On Wednesday, I followed up my recent interview with Urvish Vashi, director of product management at The Planet by posting a few of the details from the discussion that didn’t make it into the final article on the company’s new hosted Small Business Server offering. One of the most interesting aspects of the new offering is the new partner program The Planet is building around the community of small business specialists it considers the best channel for accessing the optimal end users of the service, which Vashi describes at length.
Finally, on Thursday, Mathew Baldwin posted some thoughts of his own on the SaaS and Web 2.0 issues touched on in David Snead’s earlier post. Mathew discusses some of the theory around grid-based computing platforms and how they fit into the most beneficial scenarios for Web hosting providers. On top of grid technology driving a transition away from dedicated servers, he says, the “highest and best use” would involve building a layer that would enable the deployment of on-demand SaaS capabilities.
Definitely the most notable issue to be addressed in last week’s blogs was the announcement that Isabel Wang, a long-time friend and sometimes contributor, of this publication, would be distancing herself from the business.
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