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Register for Next Week's UltraDNS Webinar

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:29:27 -0500

By Liam Eagle Thought I'd give you an update on an upcoming WHIR webinar, as well as a bit of urging to get you to register for the event. We're planning to up the frequency of our webinar schedule in the coming months. I know we've only done a few up to this point, so "more frequent" could mean anything, but we're specifically planning to host two free-to-attend informative sessions every month.

Come Out to our Seattle Networking Event Thursday

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:57:56 -0500

By Liam Eagle We're wrapping up our 2009 WHIR networking events schedule this week with what promises to be a great time in Seattle. (If you'd rather cut right to the chase and sign up for the event, you can follow this link right to the event signup page.)

Netfirms in WSJ, and a Question About Paying for Good Press

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:33:03 -0400

By Liam Eagle EDIT: In the interest of archival, I'll leave the body of the blog post here untouched, but I wanted to highlight at the beginning the fact that there are several comments below from folks at Netfirms attempting to clarify the subject. Dan Feferman says he was quoted out of context in the WSJ article, and clarifies that what Netfirms paid for was a straight-ahead mention on the blogs, not a positive review - an important distinction, I agree. Read the comments below for more. A mention of web hosting firm Netfirms in a Wall Street Journal story that appeared today raises some interesting questions about the ethics of online marketing, I think.

Cast your vote for our web hosting all star team

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:24:36 -0400

By Liam Eagle With the October 2009 issue of WHIR magazine, we wanted to do something a little different from anything we've ever done before, and offer you an opportunity to participate in the editorial process. We decided to do that by creating an "all star team" of notable hosting personalities, divided according to certain disciplines or areas of expertise, and chosen by our readers from a ballot.

Sign up for WHIR Networking Event Miami - Sept. 24

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:53:52 -0400

By Liam Eagle As I always like to do when being particularly self-promoting in the blog, let's start with a "skip the blog and go straight to the signup link" (RSVP to the Miami event here) I wanted to do a bit of a last minute promotion for the WHIR networking event that's going to be taking place in Miami next week. The list of registered attendees is looking good, but these events are a the-more-the-merrier-type circumstance, hence the further encouragement.

Tier1 Hosting Summit Photos on the WHIR

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:31:28 -0400

By Liam Eagle The Tier 1 Hosting Transformation Summit (in North America) for 2009 wrapped up this week in Las Vegas, and I don't believe I've ever been that busy at a tradeshow before. In case you weren't watching, I wrote a lot of blog posts (some of them very long) over the course of the two day event (you can look over all of them here at our event feed). So, while I tried to grab as many photos as I could while I was there, I haven't had a chance to post most of them until now.

Tier1 Hosting Summit Panel: Data Center Real Estate

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:24:14 -0400

By Liam Eagle Wednesday's schedule continued with the "Finding Your Footprint" panel, which included representatives from several data center real estate firms - ViaWest, Jones Lang LaSalle, Grubb and Ellis and Stream Realty. The panel agreed that power availability and cost is the number one criterion for hosting companies looking for new data center space, with the availability of space and the availability of carriers being other key factors.

Wednesday Panel: Meet the Money

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:53:09 -0400

By Liam Eagle This panel on the second day of the event program saw participation from Signal Hill Capital, DH Capital, Media Venture Partners and Stifel Nicolaus - some of the big investment companies most knowledgeable about, and involved in, the hosting space. (I unfortunately missed the first few minutes, making the trek of several hundred miles in each direction to check out of the hotel.)

Tier1 Hosting Summit Presentation: David DiPietro of Signal Hill Captial

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:33:25 -0400

By Liam Eagle The second presentation on Wednesday was given by David DiPietro, president of Signal Hill Capital, another of the sponsors for the event. He says he's not an expert in the hosting market per se, so he's going to focus more broadly on equity markets in a way that can be applied to the hosting business, but probably won't include too many specifics.

Tier1 Hosting Summit Presentation: Peter Hopper, DH Capital

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:19:24 -0400

By Liam Eagle Really great presentation. For his afternoon session, Peter Hopper, president and co-founder of DH Capital touched on a couple of the subjects that we've repeatedly found to be of tremendous significance to hosting providers: valuations for private companies and debt markets for private companies.