| This Week's Web Host Industry Review Blogs An important strategy for growing your business’ sales is to get new customers – this is what marketing and promotion are all about and for many businesses this revolves around their website. However, many business owners make the mistake of focusing on the amount of traffic and the number of visitors they get. While these are important metrics, they don’t mean anything if that traffic isn’t converting into sales! September 25, 2012 - Over at TechDirt, Mike Masnick has a copy of what is said to be a draft of the administration’s Executive Order on cybersecurity. As many know, the Senate failed to pass cybersecurity legislation in their last session, and because of the election, it is assumed that this legislation is dead for this Congress. It’s a favorite event destination for some of the WHIR staff, with the mysterious desert backdrop and dry, dry heat that’s a startling change from our hot and muggy Toronto summers. The turnout was a fantastic mix of locals including established web hosting and data center players PhoenixNAP, Go Daddy and Brinkster, and as it …Read More This week’s WHIR networking event marks the beginning of the final quarter of WHIR Events for 2012. We can’t believe next year will be our fifth year of hosting our popular mixers for the web hosting community. This Thursday we return to a favorite venue of ours, Mabel’s on Main, in Scottsdale, AZ. With a …Read More On September 10, 2012 at around 10:00 am PDT a major service disruption occurred at web hosting provider GoDaddy.com. The outage persisted for approximately 6 hours (depending on which servers your account was on and which services you were using). That the outage affected the entire GoDaddy.com network is undisputed, although it is still somewhat …Read More September 11, 2012 - This week’s WHIR webinar (Wednesday, September 12 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern) will feature a presentation from Hartland Ross, president of eBridge Marketing Solutions, titled “Learn how to evaluate lead generation options for B2B technology companies and the critical questions you need to ask.” WHIR tv Video Features & Interviews VIDEO: Yola CEO Talks About Website Builder and Web Hosting Partners: September 28, 2012 - Back at HostingCon, WHIR TV had the opportunity to speak to Trevor Harries-Jones, CEO of website building software developer Yola, about the company’s approach to what we might consider the shared web hosting market, and how the company is developing its website building tool to distribute to hosting providers. VIDEO: WHIR Events – San Jose, CA – August 23, 2012: September 18, 2012 - In late August, the WHIR went back to California to put on a second WHIR Networking event in the area for this year. Last WHIR Event was in Los Angeles, back in January of 2012. This time we went to San Jose, where we met up with a good showing from the local hosting community there. DEMO VIDEO: Idera Continuous Data Protection (Part 1): September 12, 2012 - In today’s demo video, we take a closer look at those backup tools, as Brian Winebarger, of Idera demonstrates some of the functions of the company’s continuous data protection platform, focusing on the multi-tenant features web hosting providers can use to deliver data protection to their customers. VIDEO: ProfitBricks CEOs Describe the Next Generation Cloud: September 10, 2012 - At HostingCon in August, ProfitBricks CEO Achim Weiss and US CEO Robert Rizika spoke to WHIR TV about some of the design philosophy and engineering work that went into to building what they describe as a next generation of cloud hosting. |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Exclusive WHIR Special Offers WHIR Networking Event
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