Presented by Webvisions Pte Ltd

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

Presented by Trumba

Broadband; next-generation personal calendars from Google, Apple, and Microsoft; and the power of interactive event publishing for organizations and businesses have created an exciting opportunity for hosting companies and Trumba to generate incremental webmaster revenues. Find our why Walt Mossberg, Kleiner Perkins, and the New York Times are all raving about Trumba. Brought to you by the creators of PageMaker and Visio, Trumba calendars have been used by over 10,000 web publishers after less than a year in market. Find out how Trumba sees the world of event publishing evolving and see a live demo of Trumba on actual customer sites ranging from media, entertainment, small businesses, clubs & associations, to major political campaign websites.

Presented by EMS-Cortex

Hosting providers' operational efficiency issues have certainly received a lot of attention lately from both analysts and independent software vendors. Maintaining low cost structures is one of the key components for success. However keeping up with the market, responding quickly to customer's demands and being able to provide integrated vs. islands of service solutions is equally if not a more important source of competitive advantage. Software as a service represents an enormous opportunity for the industry and gearing up for exploiting it requires a careful approach.

This session intends to cover both strategic and operational issues which service provides need to consider when selecting their own software providers.

Presented by Lpanel.net

Presented by InterWorx LLC

Presented by SWsoft

Over the past few years hosting providers have launched new services and offered unique product bundles to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Game servers, business class email, real-time collaboration, and software as a service are examples of new applications that can provide your business with additional revenue. Launching these services requires speed to market while maintaining a low cost structure. In this session learn how automation software is keeping pace with the trend towards new services. Learn the benefits of building your own solution versus purchasing and modifying an automation platform. Case studies will provide examples of how hosting providers have successfully launched new services without impacting support costs or service continuity.

Presented by Verio

With increasing and rapid changes - and challenges - in the hosting industry, it is becoming more and more important for you to differentiate yourself in the market and add value to everything you do.

Join us for an inside look at Verio's award winning channel program, viaVerio, and get a special preview of what Verio has in store for reseller and channel partners, including new products, services and enhancements that small and midsize customers are demanding. We'll also update you on the top needs of resellers according to a recent Verio poll. Attendees will get an early update on new product and service initiatives coming later this year. You'll learn what the viaVerio Reseller Partner Program has to offer, including how viaVerio can help you add value, better manage your business and accounts, and free up more time for customers - making more time for new opportunities. viaVerio's solutions show you how to spend time growing your business, not administering it.

Sign up for the viaVerio Reseller Program at this session and receive 3 months free and a free license of the award winning Accrisoft Freedom software suite of solutions!

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

Presented by XRamp Security Services, Inc.

Presented by QualiTeam Software

Presented by cPanel

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

Presented by Ensim

Vendor Sponsored Educational Session

A panel discussion looking at the operating metrics and financial results that can add meaningful value to you in operating, growing and exiting your hosting business, the methods hosters use to track them, the amount of help you can expect from your control panel vendor and real world experience from hosters on how they do it. Moderated by web hosting legal expert David Snead, panelists will include industry veteran Isabel Wang, Hillary Stiff of Cheval Capital, and several hosting industry executives.

In the current online environment, expectations of 100% availability is increasing at an exponential rate. Even the smallest of online content and application providers now expect high availability, 99.99(9)% uptime, minimal latency and guaranteed delivery of content. They are seeking ever-increasing flexibility in how traffic is directed based on a variety of factors such as server capacity, availability, response time, current load and geographical location; utilizing integrated adaptative traffic management solutions which include geo load-balancing and server-clustering.

Attendees get to Q&A the panel on what it's like running their Web applications in the real world & discuss their real-world networking needs and how to integrate adaptive load balancing & failover traffic management solutions into their online initiatives.

This panel will discuss how hosting companies can capitalize on the entire domain name lifecycle and turn "Under Construction" and error pages into a new source of revenue. New thinking on domain names for hosting companies as a revenue source.

Join industry experts Sean Stafford, Frank Michlick, Tim Schumacher, and Jothan Frakes in discussion on the secondary marketplace for domain names, the growth in the online advertising sector, and how domain names that might represent costs of customer acquisition can become new sources of recurring revenue.

This workshop is for participants interested in learning more about the fine points of On and Off site SEO, Linkbaiting and reputation management in the social media space. We will be performing a SEO site review of audience participants websites as well as going over ways participants websites can use linkbaiting and reputation management. Please come up and hand us your cards before the show to be picked as a site review.

Join the panel as they field questions regarding Online and Offline marketing, Branding, SEO and SEM, and Social Media Marketing. This will be a panel heavily focused on audience participation, so bring your questions!

A highly interactive workshop on how to value and structure the sale or purchase of a hosting business. This seminar will focus on the process and the key factors to take into consideration when valuing and structuring hosting transactions in today's marketplace. The hosting industry's largest acquirer and an investment banker that has completed over 100 hosting & ISP transactions will walk attendees through some real world "cases" asking the audience to answer and consider a series of questions. The process will bring to light the important aspects of analyzing essential information when valuing and structuring hosting company transactions. The presentation will also include statistics on the pricing of recent hosting transactions and address why some hosting companies may be worth more to their owners than the market will pay for them.

Facilitators: Joe Bardenheier, VP Corporate Development, The Endurance International Group; Hillary Stiff, Managing Director, Cheval Capital, Inc.

This session will provide real world scenarios and how-to details for hosted services providers and how they can implement them upon returning from the HostingCon 2008. These tools will help providers market their services using the explosive growth of social media.

The negative business impact that spam has on hosting companies is enormous. The cost of supporting and managing spam truly adds up when companies measure not only the impact on processing time, support and administration, but also on infrastructure resources, customer churn and productivity.

This panel will discuss the evolving threat landscape that web hosting companies face and examine how organizations can stay lean by controlling the onslaught of spam that saps productivity, drains resources and contributes to the increase in network and hardware requirements.

This session will examine proactive approaches to controlling the influx of spam and outline the economic savings, solutions and data related to implementing effective message security.