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13 of My Favorite Hosting Interviews
Sun, 25 May 2008 13:43:41 +0000
Due to my PC being in bad shape, going to postpone recording this week. Do not freat though, because I hate to leave anybody empty handed. I have had a great collection of people on the podcast of the 3+ years. My question is, have you heard them all?
Here are some of my favorite interviews ...]
Mark Kraynak, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing at Imperva commented, ”The decision on which certificate provider we chose to use was simple. Go Daddy makes it easy. They have reliable customer support, an excellent product and the price is right.”
Amazon.com entering the payment processor market (Amazon FPS) : Paypal worry ?
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:56:10 +0000
Amazon is the oldest and probably only head-on competitor of ebay.com . Recently Amazon announced a service aimed at developers to integrate into their site/application, a payment processor which the popular ebay company, paypal does.
Amazon FPS Functionality
You can use the extensive feature set of Amazon FPS to conduct a wide variety of transactions under virtually ...]
Inside Web Hosting Reviews - Episode 152
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:32 +0000
On today’s special edition of the Web Hosting Show we have in the studio Emory Rowland of Clickfire.com. Emory has been an insider in both the web hosting and web development worlds for a long time - so there are many topics I would like to pick his brain about. Today though we ...]
We received reply that it will be processed on Monday as this department
only works on week days - Monday - Friday. And ok, no problem with that.
However Monday came and went, and there was no reply, nor refund.
Andy Lark, Vice President of marketing and communications, and head of Dell.com remarked, ”As a company with a strong online presence, security is vital to our success. Privacy and security are an uncompromising commitment we make to millions of customers every day.”
The beginning of a brand new year is the perfect time to reorganize a web hosting business that needs more marketing projects in order to increase traffic and sales. It is actually the perfect time to look back at one’s performance throughout the year and make a decision on specific areas that would require improvement.
Customization vs Standardization, or What Amazon and Rackshack Have in Common
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:27:00 -0400
In early 2001, just a few months before Exodus filed for bankruptcy, Robert Marsh launched Rackshack. Unlike his struggling competitors, who typically built servers to spec, Robert sold $99 Cobalt RaQs. Only one configuration was available, and orders were provisioned instantly and automatically. And instead of demanding multi-year commitments, Rackshack offered month to month service. By the time I joined the company in early 2003, Rackshack (which later changed its name to EV1Servers) had become the world's largest dedicated server provider.
A year or so later, Robert unveiled EV1's private racks program during a customer gathering; two attendees signed up on the spot. Soon other orders starting pouring in, along with complicated network diagrams and super detailed server specs from customers who wanted their systems built just so. We did our best to accommodate any and all requests, which were a huge challenge to keep track of. Only much later did I learn about ITIL from Rich Bader over at EasyStreet. By that time, Amazon had already launched S3 and would soon introduce EC2.
Unlike EV1's Custom Order team, who gladly built whatever customers asked, EC2 sells only $0.10 virtual server instances. There's just one configuration available, and orders are provisioned instantly and automatically. Instead of demanding month-long commitments, Amazon offers pay-as-you-go service in 1 hour units.
According to Vinne Marchanadi from Deal Architect, pay-as-you-go is what large customers nowadays are looking for. (A former Gartner analyst, Vinnie now advises enterprise IT buyers on vendor selection.) He offers the analogy of plugging into an efficient power source versus buying fancy generators. On behalf of his clients, he says:
"Message to vendors - so long as you meet our security, privacy and compliance standards, we want as vanilla, standardized a service as possible. Sell us capacity by unit of consumption. We want to leverage all your economies - in financing, procurement, operations, everything. In return, we want to fit as much as possible in to your standards."
Another couple of years from now, will standardization again give way to customization? I think the answer is yes. And no. Amazon recently started offering Machine Image sharing. And VMWare's virtual appliance marketplace features about 400 listings. And SalesForce.com offers over 500 partner apps on AppExchange. And earlier this month Netvibes unveiled its universal widget API... It seems service delivery platforms will become more - not less - standardized, while each user will have increasing freedom to mix and match a wide range of interoperable applications into highly customized solutions. Doesn't that sound like the best of both worlds?
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