June 17-19 2013 | Austin, Texas at the Austin Convention Center

The Premier Industry Conference and Trade Show for Web Hosting and Cloud Service Providers

Transform Disruption Into Ideas, Innovation and Opportunities

As an internet professional, you recognize that now is a redefining moment for the web hosting and cloud community. It is a time of disruption and change, innovation, transformation, and opportunity. With the shift in our industry paradigm, every dialog about the future takes on an entirely new perspective. No matter what side of the hosting spectrum you’re on, it’s clear that hosting is a whole new game, and HostingCon is the place to join the conversation and raise yours to a new level of success.


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ATTEND THE LEADING NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE AND TRADE SHOW TO NETWORK, EDUCATE, AND GROW PROFESSIONALS IN THE WEB HOSTING AND CLOUD SERVICES INDUSTRY

Come Face-To-Face with the People Behind the Technology, Innovations and Partnerships That Can Help You to Raise Your Game and Achieve More Success.

Once a year, the industry’s best and the brightest thought leaders, subject matter experts and professionals gather together at HostingCon with an express purpose — to network, learn and grow. This year for three jam-packed days, June 17 – 19, 2013, we convene in one of North America’s top technology hubs, Austin, Texas at the Austin Convention Center, to face the challenges of the present and think broadly about the future of the cloud computing and web hosting industry.

An Event Created Specifically to Serve the Web Hosting and Cloud Community.

Only HostingCon brings the best thought leaders, best thinking, best practices and best technology solutions and services together in an unbiased platform and presents it without any sales pitch.

A Forum Explicitly Designed to Drive Industry Networking, Partnerships and Relationship Building.

Meet, greet and gather with over 1,900 colleagues who attend annually to engage with other stakeholders across platforms, infrastructures and the industry. Assemble in a variety of unrivaled networking venues including exclusive social settings like the HostingCon Networking Lounge and Happy Hour in the Exhibit Hall.

An Essential Agenda of Critical Industry Topics Presented in: A Timely Keynote Address, Three General Sessions, and Four Relevant Tracks of Educational Sessions and Panel Discussions.

Keynote speaker, Max Wessel, Fellow at Harvard Business School’s Forum for Growth and Innovation and co-author of “Surviving Disruption” (Harvard Business Review 2012), sets the tone for the entire event with his presentation, “Paradigm Shift: How to React in the Face of Industry Change.”

Momentum continues in HostingCon’s General Sessions that let you gain new strategic insights, identify potential opportunities, and discover new approaches to position your organization to build future sustainability. Topics include: “How to Build a Cloud: Technologies, Pitfalls and Challenges,” “Building Value On Top of Hosting,” and “The Internet in 2020: The Fight For Our Future”.

You determine the focus of your learning in HostingCon’s educational sessions. The agenda offers tracks in Sales and Marketing, Industry Trends, Technology and Management. Attendees select a maximum of 11 education sessions from 42 targeted classes delivered by industry executives, thought leaders and subject matter experts.

The Industry’s Largest Exhibit and Trade Show

If you’re in search of partnerships, products and services to help take your hosting business to the next level, you’ll find them on the HostingCon 2013 Exhibit floor. The Exhibit list boasts the ‘Who’s Who’ of vendors and sources who come prepared to meet and work with you to achieve your next best level of success.


From the HostingCon Blog

Hosting Big Data without the Cloud

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How Noisy Neighbors Affect Cloud Performance

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Avoiding Legal Issues in Web Hosting

As your web hosting company grows, you are unable to see everything that is going on. You provide your customers with a platform on which to publish content but will rarely see any of this content yourself. Unfortunately, this puts your business at risk. As laws and regulations surrounding the World Wide Web continue to … Continue Reading

Photos from HostingCon 2012