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- Top 10 Speakers to Watch at Parallels Summit 2010
Parallels Summit has been a really good venue for the hosting industry. A fact that only increases each year. Looking over the speaker list I was surprised to see a few Google speakers, considering some of the comments Serguei Beloussov (CEO of Parallels) has said about them in the past. Be that as it may, [...] - Optimism, Positive Thinking, and Job Retention
Let’s face it, it is easy to fire someone who is a total menace. When it comes to someone you despise, vengeance can come quickly and mercilessly, severing the former employee from the company in a master stroke. And to be honest, you probably feel good about it too. But what about firing someone who [...] - Growing Pains: Lessons that should have been learned from Microsoft
I am not sure how many have been reading the Microsoft Confessions at Beta News, but they have been quite interesting. As a quick synopsis, Joe Wilcox at Beta News talked to some people who were layed off from Microsoft and the stories were interesting. Judging from the comments I can tell that a lot [...] - KEMP Shatters Load Balancer Cost Barriers
When it comes to load balancers, KEMP Technologies has prided themselves on providing the lowest cost solution while still providing high-end quality. In fact, KEMP is still the only company that puts the functionality of a high end balancer into the lower price points. However, other companies have been lowering their prices, so even though [...] - Tech Specs: What is the Answer?
Yesterday we discussed the problems associated with tech specs and web hosting. The main problem with tech specs in web hosting is the vast bulk of the customer has little to no knowledge of anything found in the technical specifications and has no desire to learn them.When we talked about the difficulty of selling Web [...] - Tech Specs: What are they good for? Absolutely nothing
I have often wondered why web hosting plans are sold by technical specs… computers too for that matter. Don’t get me wrong, technical specifications of a product are pretty much as detailed as it gets for buying purposes. It can tell us exactly what we need to know. However, without some form of training in [...] - Google, Search Market Leader, and Lying Evil Empire
I hope everyone had a delightful holiday season. For myself I had a variety of projects that ended up taking more of my time that I had planned, but now I am here again providing more useful commentary than a well-trained yak. Which is fairly considerable considering how considerate the abilities of a well-trained yak [...] - Ramblings on moving a company
Before the holidays I managed to interview Haralds Jass, CEO of dedicated server hosting company Superb Hosting, on the moving of their corporate headquarters to Honolulu, Hawaii. That interview will be out at Web Host Magazine next week Wednesday.The interview was fairly informative and a few points caught my interest. Two points in particular [...] - Holiday Gift Idea
I hope everyone’s holidays are going fine and that you are not working overly hard this season. There are two things that holidays always bring to mind, (three if we are talking about this particular holiday season) and that is cooking and pictures.I look forward to two basic chores each year. One taking pictures and [...] - Through the Eyes of a Novice
If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch someone who has never even thought about HTML or coding create a web site, I highly recommend it. Especially if you are a programmer, web designer, web host, customer service, well any job or hobby that has to do with web sites. The amount you can learn [...]
