July 22nd, 2007 |

Well I have just checked in once again to the W Hotel on Lakeshore across from Navy Pier to get ready for the next few days here at HostingCon! As I remembered, the W is really awesome and has these spectacular view out over the lake - which has people sunbathing on the beach - instead of the miniature icebergs that I viewed in February during the meeting of the HostingCon Advisory board.

Upon check in I was presented with an overview of the show which I will briefly summarize here:

Registration / The Show starts at 7:30 am on Monday, July 23 at Navy Pier. There is no early registration.

There is a FREE shuttle bus service which will run between the conference hotels and Navy Pier from 7:15 am to 9:15 am each morning.

There is a networking reception on Monday evening at 5:00 pm in the Lakeview Terrace at Navy Pier, sponsored by cPanel, FastServers.Net and Microsoft.

Tuesday evening features events hosted by FastServers.Net and Tophosts (cruise) and Microsoft plus several others. Check the booths in the exhibit hall for more events / parties and details.

Wednesday evening will be the networking ”event to end all events” - an evening rooftop barbecue and fireworks.

The weather in Chicago is a bit warmer (actually a bit more humid) than Los Angeles - the forecast is calling for high temperatures in the 80’s and lows in the mid 60’s for the next few days - and no rain predicted. So great Chicago summer weather!

So travel safely if you are arriving from out of town and we’ll see you at the conference tomorrow!

This content was written by Derek Vaughan and is provided courtesy of the hosting experts at The Hosting News. Derek will be delivering a presentation on the future of web hosting marketing on Monday morning at 11:15 am.