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Stuart Melling of 34SP.com: Our Marketing Expenses Are Small. We Live And Breath Customer Service

34SP.com is a Manchester, United Kingdom based website hosting company that has been around for almost a decade. In that time founding partners Daniel Foster and Stuart Melling have built a web hosting brand based on exceptional customer support and solid hosting plans at affordable prices. The following is an interview conducted with one of [...]

Thomas Strohe of Intergenia: Everything Is More In WebHostingDay 2010

Last year was my first one at the WebhostingDay. I have made and interview with Kirsten Nothbaum of WHD team titled “WebhostingDay Brings Together The Brightest In The Industry” and went to the show after that. Some pictures from WebhostingDay have been published here after the conference. One year later I’m planing to go to [...]

Tatiana of ISPsystem: ISPmanager Is Now Becoming Very Popular in UK and EU

I have made myself known with ISPsystem during the HostingCon 2009 conference in Washington DC where the company was among the Silver Sponsors. The first thing I that made a difference was their logo. I like it and It made me to pay some attention of this software producers. When I went to their website [...]

Jay Kramer of Colostore: Web Hosting Is A Traditional Business

“Statistically 2/3’s of all businesses fail, and I am one that has started over 12 businesses can say this statistic is true”, says in his interview with B10WH Jay Kramer who has run a few quite successful web hosting enterprises in his career. He is web hosting business since 1996, at the time when we [...]

John Raul: A Smart Young Filipino Who Has A Future

You can see some of the finest web hosting professionals interviewed in B10wH.com. Most of them are executives, founders of successful businesses, In this interview you will see bright young professional who’s still have the best days of his professional career a way ahead. His name is John Raul Joven II and he lives in [...]

Peter Of Dutch Domain Registrar Realtime Register: We Are Looking At The World

Let me first tell B10WH.com readers that I met Peter Langenkamp at HostingCon 2009 where he were attending as exhibitor with his domain registrar company called Realtime Register. I liked the design of their booth. The dutch guys are good in design, I can tell you that. There were another company from Netherlands on the [...]

Meet The Cloud Computing Evangelist - Diego Parrilla from Abiquo

I met Diego during the WebHostingDay 2009 in Germany. My first impression was he was very open and friendly person. I asked him what did he do and he explained me that his company was producing a Cloud computing class software. When I went back to the hotel room the same day I began searching [...]

Dennis Johnson of WHT: Only A Strong Individual Can Moderate A Forum And Not Take The Personal Accusations Personally

Do you want to know more about the attack against Web Hosting Talk? Or to meet some or those who made WHT the world’s leading IT hosting community? I think you would say “Yes”. So let me start the introduction to this interview like this.
“There are people who have significant influence in the fields of [...]

Giuseppe Grillea, NameDrive: Do Not Miss To Monetarize Your Domain?

Some say that there are big money in domain after market. I would admit that I used to underestimate this niche and even when I was executive of a web hosting company, we never used expired customer’s domain to park them and to squeeze some money from them. But probably I wasn’t good enough for [...]

Frank Stiff, Cheval Capital: Investors Will Be Interested In Cloud Web Hosts If They Create Value

We all know what investment banking is, or at least most of us have learned something about investment banking… thanks to financial crisis. Well today “Investment banker” is probably not the most appreciated job in the world. Sadly most people are tending to think that investment bankers are guilty for the current global economic slowdown. [...]

Alexander Of Marterhost.ru: 50% Of Customers Prefer To Use VPS, Not Dedicated Servers

Russia is a huge web hosting market and one of the countries with developed software market and IT industry. I have always been very curious about Russian web hosting market and its developments. So when I met Alexander Ovchinnikov Of Masterhost.ru I knew I was gonna interview him. And despite that I missed to see [...]

Douglas Hanna: A Good Customer Service Requires Understanding The Processes

The model that web companies implement to organize their customer service and support is a key to their business success. this is not discovery. See what Douglas Hanna said in an interview for B10WH.com about the process of organizing business relationships with customers.  Doug is a popular specialist in customer service affairs and owner of [...]

Kirsten Nothbaum: WebhostingDay Brings Together The Brightest In The Industry

We are going to WebhostingDay, next week so I decided to send an email to Kirsten Nothbaum of PlusServer, one of the organizers of the show.  According to the German hosts of the conference, this year participants can expect to see about 50 well-known companies as exhibitors. “People will be able to listen to interesting [...]

Ben Welch-bolen: Most People Don’t Understand The Real Limits Of Shared Hosting

I own web hosting directory that used to be quite popular 5 years ago in 2005. It used to bring me a lot of money from advertisers, but as often happens something else appeared and I begun spending less time working on it. So it’s profit went down to zero. Soon I found it was [...]

Cloud Camp Paris

Posted by hosttycoon On June - 13 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Cloud camp in Paris was well-organized and useful event. We suggest you to visit CloudCamp.com website and to consider attending any future events. If you are new to Cloud computing Cloud Camps will help you to understand it. If you are familiar with the major transformation in computing technologies you will have a chance for networking and meeting prospective partners and probably to find customers. Among the sponsors of the event were Sun, A-Servers, Right Scale and Orange. Their presentations... more

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Clouds Mature As World Economy Looks For Growth

Posted by hosttycoon On May - 6 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

“Web-based business software sales are growing briskly, even as most of the industry stalls, as the segment pioneered by Salesforce.com Inc benefits from the weak economy and fading concerns about security”, reported Reuters. According to research firm Gartner the sales of Cloud based software will grow with 22% to a record $8 billion. “We are still going strong,” says Sharon Mertz, Gartner analyst who advises IT managers on software purchases. “The model is pretty solid,... more

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WHT Members Say: What Is Cloud Computing?

Posted by hosttycoon On May - 5 - 20091 COMMENT

“I think a good way to start off this forum section is to determine what cloud computing means to everyone, I know there are a lot of different views and it should be interesting to see them.”, says HP-Kevin in a thread titled “What is Cloud computing?” in WHT. Members named “Karbon” adds that he is “curious as to what is it as well” and ads the he never have heard of it. “Is it where you host in the clouds?” writes the WHT member and adds... more

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Eucalyptus Open-Source Cloud Went Commercial

Posted by hosttycoon On May - 5 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Eucalyptus, the open-source project which was the core Amazon’s cloud infrastructures set up has been established as a private company, named Eucalyptus Systems. The Eucalyptus said that its new venture raised $5.5 million. The company aims to support the open-source cloud platform and  to deliver on-premise private and hybrid cloud computing solutions for large-scale businesses. Eucalyptus is an acronym from ”Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to... more

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Dennis Johnson of WHT: Only A Strong Individual Can Moderate A Forum And Not Take The Personal Accusations Personally

Posted by hosttycoon On April - 30 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Do you want to know more about the attack against Web Hosting Talk? Or to meet some or those who made WHT the world’s leading IT hosting community? I think you would say “Yes”. So let me start the introduction to this interview like this. “There are people who have significant influence in the fields of activity, they are engaged in - business, journalism politics, academic life, science, etc. Some of them are usually controversial figures, other are not. But most people who... more

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Another Overselling Web Host Went Unlimited

Posted by hosttycoon On April - 29 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Siteground became another shared hosting provider that went “Unlimited”. The web host used to be number 1 ranked website in Google on “web hosting” search term for almost 2 years. It was known with its unrealistic offerings, which featured 200 GB disc space as a part of shared hosting plans. However as many other oversellers, Siteground succeeded to attract customers and hasn’t failed to provide them with a decent service and good customer support. The company has been... more

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PingZine - Quick Fact

Posted by hosttycoon On April - 28 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine is one of the most influential media in hosting industry. I like it because it is quality and has a very nice design. Read what Keith Dunkan of PingZine said about the magazine. “We print over 20,000 copies per issue, 85% shipped in US, 15% Canada, and overseas, we average 1.7 readers per copy bringing print readership to over 30,000 readers and have average 15,000 readers of the online version, bringing our estimated total to 45,000 readers per issue”. PingZine... more

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