One of the biggest domain registrars and web hosts GoDaddy has announced that it started renewing expiring web hosting subscriptions of its Greek customers free of charge. The company says it wants to help them keep afloat, sticking to a “business-as-usual situation”. The company said in a statement that” In response to the current banking situation in Greece, GoDaddy launched an automatic renewal program for all its Greek customers. The program covers the entire GoDaddy product... more
Nikhil Of Admin-Ahead: Think Big, Start Small
Nikhil is an entrepreneur and owner of Admin Ahead, a company that does remote system, technical support and network administration. He also runs few other brands and companies that develop applications and provide various services to dot-com businesses. I met him during HostingCon 2010 in San Diego. We didn’t talk much about business, as we got together in a bar with Brett Dymond of Ezeelogin and had a very good time during one of the HostingCon’s social events. We have eventually finished... more
Aaron Philips: cPanel Has The Ability To Drive New Business
I met Aaron Philips at HostingCon 2009. Since then I have seen him in action as Vice President of Operations of cPanel Inc. On my humble opinion he is a strong business leader, who is very focused on achieving goals and to succeeding in business. I have seen him helping to startups which have good products to integrate with cPanel/WHM and to get recognized in the web hosting industry. Aaron is definitely one, who any business person would like to deal with. Another thing that he has a charisma and... more
Keith Duncan of Ping! Zine: I’m Always Looking To Do Better
Keith Duncan is a publisher of the longest running print magazine in the hosting industry – Ping! Zine. I know him from one of the web hosting conferences I attended, I don’t remember which one actually. He looks serious, but at the same time is an easygoing guy, who takes time to talk to anyone, during those IT gatherings. He listens to you and my impression is that he’s always ready to help if he could. I’ve met other people involved in publishing in different media niches... more
Pulkit Gupta: Softaculous Helps Many People. We Learn From Them
I met Pulkit Gupta at HostingCon 2011 in San Diego. I did’n have too much time to get to know him there, but at some point I decided that his Softaculous is not just a very interesting product, but it is a success story. At the time Softaculous was released there were at least one more well-established auto-installer software library, in a market that didn’t seem to need more. So I was interested to find out how did Pulkit maker breakthrough and how did he made Softaculous probably the... more