Video Interview with Peter Melerud, KEMP Technologies
In June, application delivery optimization company KEMP Technologies launched a version of its load balancing and delivery control solutions designed for managed hosting providers.
While at HostingCon 2008, the company took the opportunity to elaborate on this while discussing the challenges ...
August 22nd, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
Video Interview with Mark Klein, Sedo
A few weeks back, the WHIR conducted an email interview with Mark Klein, director of business development at Sedo, and asked him to make the case for his HostingCon 2008 session titled "Tapping the Exploding Secondary Domain Market: How It Can Increase Your ...
August 21st, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
Rackspace WAS SET UP — A study in motivation
Rackspace began trading 11 days ago as of this writing …my analysis. At HostingCon, during one of the panels the speaker brought up the Rackspace IPO, he bet the strike price would be $14 – sounds good to me – Another panel member piped in ...
August 20th, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
Video Interview with Troy Augustine, iNET Interactive
In the weeks leading to what is considered the web hosting industry's largest event, the WHIR reported that iNET Interactive, a social media company that owns the popular web hosting community Web Hosting Talk among other web properties, rather unexpectedly announced that it ...
August 19th, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
Cisco’s TechTV to air Data Center Efficiency Episode
(Note: If you want to skip what I say and go right to the sign-up page, here's your link)Otherwise, fasten your fun-belts!Cisco's TechWise TV is set to "air" an episode called "Energy Efficiency in the Data Center," this Thursday, August 21 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern, which ought to be ...
August 19th, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
Is Rackspace Worth $1.2 Billion?
As mentioned in a recent post by David Snead, managed hosting company Rackspace has gone public. The company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange last week under the ticker symbol ‘RAX’. A complete financial overview can found at Google finance.The IPO shares were distributed via a ...
August 19th, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
Pandering
If you follow my blogs, you already know I have a personal web site, www.words2u.net, which I am trying to coax into making money. Sadly, this personal site is not that appealing to people other than myself, and this limits its earning potential. The site is harassing me, its owner ...
August 18th, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
Video Interview with Paul Hirsh, Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers
Having an association to call all our own isn't a new idea in the hosting industry, especially since we've seen various attempts at achieving this uber challenging goal in the last few years, all of which have, rather quietly, disappeared.
The last time ...
August 15th, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
Lou v. Elliot: Rackspace IPO
One of the issues that came up in the metrics that matter panel at HostingCon was the Rackspace IPO. Rackspace's Red Herring estimated a $12-$16 price. Lou Honick believed that the IPO would price out in the higer range ($14 to $16) Elliot Noss in ...
August 13th, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments
HostingCon 2008 - Video Interview with Oliver Mauss, 1&1
Earlier this year in May, one of the largest hosting providers in the world , 1&1 Internet, rather unexpectedly announced that its CEO and chairman of the board, Andreas Gauger, was stepping down after 13 years and was being succeeded by Oliver Mauss, a veteran ...
August 13th, 2008 by admin in Hosting News | No Comments