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 [...]

From time to time I like to try out new technologies or explore established web publishing techniques that I just haven’t tried yet. And so it was that I had set up a dedicated hosting server, loaded up the Plesk control panel from Parallels, and launched a test website.
In the process of learning how to [...]

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 [...]

Let’s take this opportunity to think about two totally unrelated, yet oddly enough, very much related things: cell phones and milk.

Of all the companies and services showcased at ISPCON Fall 2006, I can only think of a small handful that actually impressed me. One in particular, a company called OpenDNS, who has taken the complicated job of updating the building block of the Net, DNS.

One of the companies that made a big splash at this year?s HostingCon was Jamcracker. Jamcracker is a SaaS service solution provider. A one stop shop for SaaS products.