Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Yes, I was in Chicago for the annual Hostingcon conference and one of the big talks for this event was a lottery with a Harley Davidson valued at over $12,000 as the first prize. The point of it all was to show that all of us hosting geeks also could be cool (sigh…).
Anyways, the companies responsible for this competition was Gawkwire, DesignVAR, Host4Yourself, BobCares, The Cloud Talk, CRE Loaded and SeeksAdmin. And I can tell you that there were many wishing to win that bike, including yours truly, and the expectations were running high. What should have been a fun and joyful competition ended up as somewhat of a … In lack of better words – it ended up as somewhat of a scam! You see, once they had a winner it turned out that he only had 1 chance in 250 to win the bike.
I can promise all of you that weren’t there – the mood quickly changed among all involved and in particular among all of us who entered the “competition”, or scam if you so will. It simply felt as cheap trick to get attention and what could, and should, have been good attention for the responsible companies turned out to be nothing else than a fiasco. All wasn’t good in the hood at HostingCon 2008. Rough times in the web hosting industry, 
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