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Hostingcon 2008, a recap

Preeti — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:52:42 +0000

So I didn’t post on the 30th as it was a busy day to close out the conference. I did not attend any of the sessions, although there was one I really wanted to attend. The exhibition hall was slow and it provided a good opportunity to speak to the company representatives on a more personal level. We were quite excited to find out that some of the companies want to work with us on future media and press information.

And now, some interesting tidbits from the conference-

Social media is an important form of connecting with consumers
IPv4 is running out and IPv6 will take affect in two years
Spam is increasing exponentially and is still everyone’s nightmares
SaaS (software a a service) is becoming increasing popular as a mode of deployment for software. For customers, SaaS is easy to maintain since the updating and maintenance occurs on the host’s side.
Green hosting was not a crucial issue. I currently believe that green hosting will be the next step in as companies become more environmentally friendly. Hopefully, it will become more important in the upcoming years with newer technologies to complement it.
Product branding is vital for hosting companies even though consumers see hosting as a standard good.

If you have questions, feel free to post comments. We appreciate what you think.

Hostingcon, the exhibition hall, and goodies

Preeti — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:22:34 +0000

So there were enough complaints about the AC yesterday, that the convention center is more temperate today. Good news that some people consider ice boxes an uncomfortable environment.

The exhibition hall opened today and it was filled with people, goodies, and new ideas. Microsoft, Parallels, and Google served as the traditional powerhouses but there were many other companies to take note of. We met Ratepoint, ARIN, ICC, Limestone, DNA Mail, dotnetpanel, MailChannels, Parallels, and Drupal. We are excited that many agreed to be interviewed and we look forward to asking some tough, and fun, questions about their company, product and outlook on the industry.

We also met some hosting providers and will be expanding our selection soon. Stay tuned because you will have some new options. Woot!

The day is about to close but on a fun note, there were neat prizes given away. I received a Nerf toy (from MailChannels), a couple USB storage devices (ICC and Comodo), and may hopefully win a plasma tv. Okay, that’s just a long shot, but who knows. Oh! And I got a $2 bill…prize or souvenir?

Hostingcon 2008, Monday

Preeti — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:16:09 +0000

The sessions are over for the day. In summary, it was really hot outside and really cold inside. Basically a frying pan to the ice cream freezer.

Despite the freezer situation inside, the sessions provided some great information. Here’s a quick run down:

Social Media is an important tool in communicating with customers

IPv6 is being deployed as IPv4 runs out of address space

Parked domains is a big market

Google Webmaster Tools may be offered in the future with hosting packages

One Week to Hostingcon 2008

Markus — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:38:34 +0000

We’re ready to attend Hostingcon 2008 in a week! This time we are going to be ready for the blogging aspect…writing and updating. We will also be having a Twitter for all the tweeters out there to follow and be followed.

We had a great time in Chicago – Hosting Con 2007

Markus — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:40:14 +0000

Hostingcon 2007, 3 weeks later.

We had a great time and met a lot of nice and fun people! We’ve uploaded some web hosting search pictures from hostingcon at flickr.com! =)

Check out the next great events in the web hosting industry in list to the right!

/Markus

I won the HostingCon early bird giveaway!!!

Markus — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:42:23 +0000

Tjoho! Ulrika won the Hosting Con early bird prize!! =)

We’ve arrived to HostingCon

Markus — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:38:41 +0000

We are now here in Chicago! Great weather, great people! Right now we are listening at the session 3 about Green Web hosting; how the web hosting industry can help the environment. We’ll come back with more information about this soon on web hosting search!

Earlier today we have attended sessions about the future of web hosting, what will happen, and one SEO session. I will write a post later today with the most important information from all the sessions of today!

Only 7 days until the best hosting event takes place…

Markus — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:21:52 +0000

Only 1 week to go before we meet the most brightest and the most interesting people and companies in the hosting industry. I (Ulrika) and Markus (read more about us here) will represent our WebHostingSearch-team in Chicago. I am especially looking forward to the keynote address “The Future of Service Enablement” with some really interesting panelists, like David Koston at Cpanel and Lou Honick at Hostmysite.com just to mention some of them. And of course the session about “the future of the Web hosting marketing” which is a really hot session for us at WHS!

HostingCon 2007 “Live blog”

Markus — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:15:48 +0000

The WHS team will visit one of the largest web hosting conferences in the world, in just two weeks, HostingCon2007. We will post all the news, pictures and other nice information live during the conference. Get all the information here, before you’ll find it anywhere else, and see all the pictures of the most important people and companies in the industry.

Of course you will also get some extra bonus material, hehe, from me and Ulrika when we’re visiting the networking parties and do other fun stuff in Chicago, you don’t want to miss that =)

/ Markus – WHS Team