According to some extremely long and painstaking research, I have found 2004 to be the pinnacle of Web Hosting. If you use Google Trends you would probably say that 2004 was the dot com bubble burst for Web hosting.
Search on any web hosting related term and you will see a huge spike in 2004. As [...]

Interesting to note that this time of season seems to be filled with web sites where the powers that be have decided its a great time for a redesign. Unfortunately, it also seems to be a time where the users are screaming bloody murder and protesting the companies to change everything back the way it [...]

As much as some people may think that web analytics has some sort of mystical or voodoo powers and that by using them you will be filled with a wealth of insight and knowledge that you will immediately see working its wonders on your site’s traffic, think again. All web analytic software does is give [...]

With all the new technologies out and coming out
There are many new technologies being talked about, cloud computing, virtualization, virtual operating systems, hypervisors, virtual desktops, the list goes on. What does it all mean and how will it affect you?
If the goal is an online operating system, then we are seeing the middle stages happening [...]

Part 2 of my interview with Tom McCafferty, Director of Marketing and rockstar of Vyatta.
David: What was the original design of the company? Was it originally just to be software or did you want software and hardware at the same time?
McCafferty: Software definitely software..we still consider ourselves a software company. We haven’t changed our [...]

At HostingCon 2008, I managed to sit down with many movers and shakers of the industry. My interviews are more conversations between professionals and as such can take anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour. Due to this, I have split the interviews into numerous parts. The following is my interview with Vyatta representative Tom [...]

Thanks to my friends at OpenSRS (the reseller service group of Tucows), I managed to get a copy of the results of one of their reseller surveys. What was interesting was the vast majority of resellers use social networking, but believe that social networks (or those who host social networks) are not a serious threat [...]

A while ago I had written an article about web hosting data center operators preparing for hurricanes. You can read a copy here: http://www.hostpapers.com/article/228.
So now we are once again in the throws of hurricane season with the latest hurricance - named Gustav - poised to hit the Gulf coast almost exactly three years after Katrina [...]

The conclusion to my interview with Michael van Dijken and John Zanni, both from Microsoft.

Part 2 of my interview of Michael van Dijken and John Zanni of Microsoft from Hostingcon 2008.