Web Hosting Strategies
Analysis and review of the web hosting and managed services industry by Doug Kaye.
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Coincidence? Mark Shull, CEO of Digex, will be the keynote speaker at Web Hosting Magazine's Web Hosting Expo in Washington, D.C., next week.
WHIR reports that Web Hosting Magazine just awarded Digex "Best Hosts" award in the managed hosting category. Isn't that rather convenient? Makes you wonder about those awards, eh?
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:22:20 PM 
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Duh! Jupiter Media Metrix says, "Companies that continue to host their own sites will gain little competitive advantage and spend more money on staffing and technology than those that outsource these functions."
Also, "...over 80 percent of companies undertake Web development projects before their site hosting and technology infrastructure design is built. According to Jupiter analysts, nine out of ten of these ventures will face some form of avoidable rebuilding as a result." [Source: Mike Drach, The Web Hosting Industry Review]
Jupiter is presenting the Jupiter Web Enterprise Forum on September 12-13, in San Francisco. I think they need my upcoming book.
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:12:36 PM
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Colo Space Fire Sale. We all know that the glut of data center space has spawned a quiet price war between colocation vendors, but did you know there's a burgeoning niche of colo brokers? According to one of them, providers are "literally just giving away the space if they know they're going to make money on bandwidth or managed services." [Evan Koblentz, eWEEK]
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:30:01 AM
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