Derek Vaughan

Author Website: http://www.HostMySite.com
Bio: Derek Vaughan is a web hosting industry veteran, marketing consultant and writer. Mr. Vaughan has architected the marketing growth of several prominent web hosting success stories leading to acquisition including Affinity Internet, Inc., Aplus.Net and HostMySite.com. Prior to his entry into the web hosting industry, Mr. Vaughan was responsible for online marketing at The Walt Disney Company where he marketed ecommerce for the ESPN.com and NASCAR.com brands. Mr. Vaughan received his M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and currently serves on the HostingCon Advisory Board.

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Netcraft Lists Most Reliable Web Hosts

Jun 6th, 2009 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News

UK based Internet services company Netcraft has named its most reliable website hosting companies for the month of May. Netcraft uses a series of monitoring servers from separate points around the Internet to log performance measurements made at fifteen minute intervals for a broad list of web hosting providers. The averages are calculated over the [...]



HostingCon 2009 is Coming

May 4th, 2009 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Industry Experts

For those of you who have been around the website hosting industry for at least the past few years, it is common knowledge that one of the industry’s most well-attended and prestigious conferences and trade shows is HostingCon. For those of you who are either newer to the industry, or who just haven’t had the [...]



Hosting in the USA…not

Mar 25th, 2009 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Marketing

I recently attended the fifth annual WebhostingDay in Bruehl, Germany and figured out that there is an enormous world of web hosting outside the United States. Not only does the International hosting community exist - it is doing quite well. Thomas Strohe is the creator and organizer of WebhostingDay and he explained how [...]



WebhostingDay 2009 Sells Out

Mar 9th, 2009 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News

It’s official. WebhostingDay 2009 has completely sold out its remaining available spots. The fifth annual version of Europe’s premier web hosting event and conference was running at pre-registration levels far above last year, and a sell out looked likely. According to show creator and organizer, Thomas Strohe, the limit of 2,500 attendees has been reached [...]



Gmail Takes a Dive

Feb 25th, 2009 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News

As anyone who regularly uses Google’s Gmail service probably now knows, Gmail suffered a 4 hour outage yesterday. Now it goes without saying that it is by no means easy to maintain email communications for the estimated 113 million worldwide Gmail users - but this is Google we’re talking about. Among the first to realize [...]



Great Website Title Tags

Jan 21st, 2009 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: General Information

As we greet the beginning of the New Year, it is an opportune time to review and if necessary revise and update your website’s title tags. First things first, so what exactly is a title tag? The title tag for a web page is displayed in a visitor’s web browser to identify the page, but [...]



VPS and Virtualization Come of Age

Jan 4th, 2009 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Industry Experts

VPS and virtualization are still relatively young technologies in the grand scheme. Here’s what I mean:
In 1776 the first steam engines were installed and working in commercial enterprises. This technology development leads to the Industrial Revolution.
In 1870 the Second Industrial Revolution commences. Developments from the Second Industrial Revolution include the introduction of steam-driven steel [...]



Hosting Experts on Hosting

Dec 12th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Hosting Articles, Industry Experts

Website hosting, vps, and dedicated servers are all shifting rapidly. The added uncertainty of the worldwide financial crises has created a new sense of urgency for hosting providers to adapt to this rapid change and thrive. What can we expect in the future for website hosting? Below are the expert opinions of four veterans of [...]



Google Chrome Browser Market Share

Nov 28th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: General Information

The latest browser which has been introduced to a general Internet audience is the browser named Chrome by Google. It was released to much hype right around the first of September 2008. You can read the original Official Google Blog post here. Keeping in mind that its competitors have been refining their business models and [...]



Reseller Web Hosting Options

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Industry Experts, News Bytes

There have been a few developments recently in reseller hosting that focus the spotlight on some of the differences between different resellers and their approaches. Here are three resellers that have quite different approaches, but all offer solid products and services if you line up with the right one for your needs.
First on our list [...]