Ecommerce is the heart of what hosting providers enable for their customers. The definition of Ecommerce can vary from a simple phone number on a Web page or a simple Web lead form, to a complex Ecommerce system with millions of dollars in yearly revenue. Ecommerce is the engine driving everything we and our customers are trying to achieve on the Web.

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Last week we posted the first two videos from our trip out to The Planet's headquarters in Houston where we got the opportunity to sit down and chat with Doug Erwin, The Planet's chairman and CEO, and Urvish Vashi, director of product management.

While Doug touched on several different aspects of the company in his interview, both gentlemen took the opportunity...

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Once again theWHIR will be sponsoring the Networking Lounge at HostingCon 2008, the largest gathering of hosted service professionals in the world.

theWHIR team will be on hand to facilitate important business connections and provide a relaxed and comfortable environment complete with refreshments where you can meet with potential or existing clients and partners. Wireless internet access will also be provided.

Feel free to schedule meetings...

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Industry leaders announced today the launch of the Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers, AIHSP, the first-ever trade association serving the shared interests of providers and vendors in the Web hosting and Internet services industry. With support from business leaders and key consultants, the new initiative will be unveiled next week at HostingCon 2008, the largest annual gathering of Web services professionals and exhibitors.

Although we've taken many an opportunity to speak to c-level execs, marketing VPs and industry analysts at all the conferences we've attended, rarely have we actually sat down and interviewed those typically-endearing, developer "geeks," that often attend these events, about the newest and coolest applications they've been developing, on yes, your servers :)

However, while at LT PACT 2008 we were introduced to the co-founders...

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cPanel has extended customer service hours and added new staff to better serve customers.

URLJet, the largest and only exclusive provider of vBulletin message board Web hosting, announced today the launch of its File Guardian Web Backup service, introducing round-the-clock database backups for hosted vBulletin message boards.

Although we've taken many an opportunity to speak to c-level execs, marketing VPs and industry analysts at all the conferences we've attended, rarely have we actually sat down and interviewed those typically-endearing, developer "geeks," about the newest and coolest applications they've been developing on, yes, your servers :)

However, while at LT PACT 2008 we were introduced to the co-founders of Woopra,...

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Opus Interactive announced today it has joined the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program, a value-added partnership opportunity that enables it to more effectively deploy R1Soft’s next-generation Continuous Data Protection backup and restore technology, which allows data to be backed up on a constant basis.

2MHost, a provider of Shared, Reseller, and Virtual Private Server Web hosting for businesses and individuals, announced today the launch of its long-awaited Managed Dedicated Container Hosting service, a new product designed to offer the power of a dedicated server in a virtualized environment.