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Make Hybrid Hosting Your Next Revenue Stream
In the past few years, cloud hosting has become a desirable platform for businesses. With high availability, scalability, and access to more hardware power in an instant, enterprises of all sizes recognize the cloud is the future. While the cloud will have a part to play, many organizations remain committed to keeping some data in-house. … Continue Reading
Expanding Your Hosting Company Overseas
While the Internet does not have traditional geographic borders, there remains a tendency for hosting companies to set up their businesses locally. As companies expand and customer bases increase, finding success means satisfying customers from all around the world. Not every customer wants to host their data in the country closest to you, and thinking … Continue Reading
ScienceLogic Hosts the Ultimate Cloud Championship
ScienceLogic is hosting an Ultimate Cloud Championship (UCC) that kicks off at Interop Las Vegas. Voters will decide which cloud provider is the Ultimate Cloud Champion (and enter to win an iPad Mini) and the Cloud Champion will be announced at HostingCon. ScienceLogic Cloud Strategist, Jeremy Sherwood, wrote a series of blog posts pitting cloud … Continue Reading
What Brand Story Does Your Hosting Business Tell?
The sense of storytelling is a fundamental way in which people understand the world around them. Narratives connect with audiences because they help to order chaotic lives, organizing events into cause and effect with a defined beginning, middle, and end. It is therefore no surprise that “brand storytelling” has become a major term in marketing. … Continue Reading
Launch New Services with Agile Methodologies
Most web hosting companies continually look for ways to expand their product ranges, but launching a new service is a complex task. The processes of analysis, design, development and launch are all time consuming and, as a result, expensive. It is essential to keep development periods minimal in order to achieve a faster time to … Continue Reading
Maximize Revenue from your Existing Customers
Smart web hosting companies are always looking for new opportunities to grow. Being successful in the web hosting industry requires perpetual motion, a constant increase in revenue and, in turn, profit. Most businesses look outside of themselves for growth, equating success with finding new customers. Focusing on marketing, budgets gradually increase in an attempt to … Continue Reading
How To Outsell Your Largest Competitors
In the past few years, the web hosting industry has continued a trend of mergers and acquisitions. Today, there are several major names that dominate the marketplace and have marketing budgets that seem impossible to match. However, the success of large enterprises does not mean there is no room for smaller businesses and new companies … Continue Reading
Get Ready for IPv6 at HostingCon 2013
Previously at HostingCon and here at the HostingCon blog, we have discussed the gradual move from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The larger Internet service providers and hosting companies took strong steps towards IPv6 support, ensuring they were prepared to change to IPv6 without service interruption. But now, in … Continue Reading
Does Your Web Hosting Business Embrace Change?
There are many reasons the web hosting industry is an exciting place to be, but change is perhaps the most significant. Every year, technology advances in new and unpredictable ways, making life as a web hosting provider a constantly surprising and engaging experience. Given the industry’s climate of change, it is surprising to find that … Continue Reading
Drive More Sales from your Cloud Services
Although more web hosting companies are developing cloud services, getting to launch can be a complex task. You need to evaluate platforms from different providers, overcome the inevitable obstacles of implementation, and build new cloud services your customers will love. But even when your cloud services are ready to use, new obstacles appear on the … Continue Reading