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Cable vs Telephone Companies - The Hosting Nexus

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:00:08 PDT

By Tom MillitzerThe other day I received an invite from a cable television organization inviting me to a Webinar

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Web Hosting Still Growing

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:00:03 PDT

By Derek VaughanIf there was any doubt at all that web hosting is still a huge growth business, those doubts wer

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Selling Your Hosting Company 4 - Who will be the buyer

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Tom MillitzerI rank this as one of the top 4 questions owners of Hosting companies ask me when considering se

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Looking Abry Partners - Doing the Private Equity

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:00:06 PDT

By Tom MillitzerOver the past year I started to note the effect of Private Equity on the hosting industry. There

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Join Tomorrows Webinar on OpenStack and Dells Crowbar

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Liam EagleWe're finishing up our preparations for tomorrow's Dell-sponsored webinar, which promises to provid

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MA 2011 Looking to 2012 - My HostingCon Presentation

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:00:06 PDT

By Tom MillitzerMy HostingCon presentation was, well I thought actually great. I had a the perfect audience. Hos

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New on WHIR TV Ditlev Bredahl of OnApp Discusses CDN

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By Liam EagleOne of the big announcements to come out of HostingCon this year was the news that cloud software b

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HostingCon 2011 What Did I Learn and Sense

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By William TollHostingCon 2011 has just ended - and this being the 7th year of the event, and it having record a

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How the big buyers look at acquisitions

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:00:07 PDT

By David SneadLate Tuesday afternoon I attended the acquisition Q&A panel. The panelists represented a wide ran

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Small Business and Big Government Public Policy and the Hosting Industry

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:00:07 PDT

By David SneadThe first presentation I attended at HostingCon focused on public policy issues. Public policy is

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Could the Most Important Presentation be Save Hosting HostingCon and a note about my MA Presentation

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:00:06 PDT

By Tom MillitzerSorry about the long title.... As I was putting the final touches on my presentation I received

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Can you use your own judgment in DMCA matters

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By David SneadThe DMCA is attractive to most online businesses because its "safe harbor" insulates them from lia

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Hosting Industry To Meet in San Diego

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:00:06 PDT

By Derek VaughanAs regular readers of The WHIR know, in just a few weeks from now, thousands of professionals in

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I See International - Thinking HostingCon

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:00:07 PDT

By Tom MillitzerA couple of news items recently crossed my desk. I watch trends and this week Brazil and GoDaddy

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Attend this weeks Montreal event for some French fun

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:00:50 PDT

By WHIR HappeningsThis week we jet not too far from our Canadian headquarters in Toronto to Montreal, Quebec for

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The worst ideas ever

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:00:06 PDT

By Lou HonickYou really believed me? You thought those were good ideas? Shame on you! In case you don't know

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A Game Changer - An MA Transaction

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:00:06 PDT

By Tom MillitzerAnother one of my Hosting tracking stocks officially bites the dust. Savvis is now officially ow

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HostingCon 2011 What Are You Looking To Learn and Discuss Here Are My HostingCon Thoughts

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By William Toll WOW! - 2011 is the most active and transitional year for the Web hosting world since

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Understanding the debt ceiling debate from a business perspective

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:00:08 PDT

By Lou HonickAs I sat around pondering the politics of the day, I thought to myself that it all seems ridiculous

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Hot times at the Montreal WHIR Networking Event

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:00:07 PDT

By WHIR HappeningsLast night we hosted our monthly WHIR Networking Event in the beautiful city of Montreal, Queb

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Just out of curiosity Cloud Computing

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:00:06 PDT

By Steven HigashiI'm one of those guys that enjoys knowing random facts and, of course, working in the cloud com

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Southern Charm at the WHIR Event Atlanta

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:00:06 PDT

By WHIR HappeningsLast Thursday marked our first ever WHIR Networking Event in Atlanta. It also marked WHIR Eve

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Selling Your Hosting Company - Part 3 - Knowing Thyself

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Tom MillitzerOn the heals of Revenues you may think I would go into financials. No, not in the mood. In a Zen

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Selling Your Hosting Company - 2 - Its About Revenues

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Tom MillitzerEarlier I wrote that every year you need to consider selling your company. Not as an "I have to

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Join us Thursday in Atlanta at our WHIR Networking Event

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By WHIR HappeningsAfter almost two and a half years of hosting WHIR Networking Events, we're very excited to be

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World Hosting Days Asia - Day 1

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By David SneadThe team at Intergenia has put together the first ever "World Hosting Days Asia" this week in Bang

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Check out Last Weeks Excellent Webinar with Endurance and Litle in the Archive

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Liam EagleIf you missed last week's webinar, or if you attended but are interested in revisiting it, I wanted

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Save Big on HostingCon Before Its Too Late Register Now

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By WHIR HappeningsEarly bird registration rates for HostingCon 2011 are expiring in less than 1 month! Register

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Google Confirms it can Ban All Sites on a Hosted Server

Fri, 27 May 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By Liam EagleAn interesting blog post on Search Engine Roundtable this week, saying that Google had offered some

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PROTECT IP Bill is Son of COICA really different

Thu, 26 May 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By David SneadSenator Patrick Leahy recently introduced the "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativi

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COICA Redux PROTECT IP bill

Wed, 25 May 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By David SneadSenator Patrick Leahy recently introduced the "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativi

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Sign Up for Tomorrows Webinar with Endurance Intl and Litle Co

Wed, 25 May 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By Liam EagleThere's still time to sign up for tomorrow's WHIR Webinar, featuring Joe Bardenheier of hosting gia

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3 ways to grow your business Part 3

Wed, 25 May 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Hartland RossIn part 1, we looked at what most businesses tend to focus on - growing your customer base. In p

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LinkedIn - IPO - Effects on WHIR Readers

Fri, 20 May 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By Tom MillitzerYou can't take Linkedin to the bank but it supports the trend. On the heels of Linkedn's IPO, th

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The sunshine came out for the WHIR Networking Event Toronto

Fri, 20 May 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By WHIR HappeningsLast night marked the third annual WHIR networking event in Toronto, Canada. This event is alw

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WHIR TV - April 2011 Chicago Networking Event Video

Wed, 18 May 2011 19:00:05 PDT

By Liam EagleNOTE: Our Toronto WHIR event is May 19, 2011 at C Lounge. From where I'm sitting (Toronto), that's

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Help Set the Agenda for Next Weeks Endurance and Litle Webinar

Mon, 16 May 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Liam EagleWe've got an excellent webinar lined up next week that we're hoping will turn out to be a pretty un

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Microsoft Skype Hype Leverage - What you should learn

Wed, 11 May 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Tom MillitzerLast week I wrote - "How do I start a paradigm shift tomorrow?" Microsoft just played that hand

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Why do acquisitions Its all about leverage - Plus a bonus look back

Fri, 06 May 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By Tom MillitzerAs I started drafting a couple blogs regarding some recent and interesting transactions (Century

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The Windy City More like Chicago The Web Hosting City

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:00:04 PDT

By WHIR HappeningsLast night was the third annual WHIR Networking Event in Chicago, and it did not disappoint.

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