Clickfire HostingCon Coverage

Greetings fellow web hosting freaks of all shapes, sizes, bandwidths and disk capacities. I have never been to a web hosting conference and could not attend HostingCon this year held on July 23-25 at the Navy Pier in Chicago. My understanding of what takes place at these conferences is simply that a bunch of  people who love web hosting get together and talk about web hosting. Simple enough description?

What’s the next best thing to being at HostingCon? I am excited that Douglas Hanna will be live blogging HostingCon 2007 for Clickfire this year! Douglas is armed with a Nikon D80 camera, a Palm Treo 700wx smart phone and a whole lot of knowledge and enthusiasm for the web hosting industry. Not only is Douglas going to physically be there, but he is speaking at one of the conference sessions. Douglas’ session will be on Wednesday July 25th at 4:30 and entitled: Customer Service as Your Competitive Advantage. Other hosting industry professionals will be speaking at sessions that I that I hope to hear about are:

• Ben Fisher and Neil Patel, Modern SEO/SEM Site Clinic
• Isabel Wang, Green Web Hosting…
• Jim Boykin, SEO Techniques…
• Derek Vaughan’s Future of Web Hosting
• Richard Jimmerson’s ARIN
• Troy Augustine, Future of Hosted Services
• Adam Eisner, Rethinking Domain Name Search
• Nicholas Mailer, Guinesss World Book Record…

Douglas has written several web hosting reviews and articles for Clickfire. He’s also written for quite a few well known web hosting sites. His blog is Service Untitled and he has a lot to say about the all important subject of customer service. He also interviews some well known execs from Dell, Best Buy, HP, Rackspace and elsewhere. I like to describe Douglas’ treatment of web hosts in his reviews here as “tough love.” I’d like to say thanks to Douglas and I hope you all enjoy the coverage.