cPanel Conference 2012 Summary
Houston, Texas – The cPanel Conference 2012, a convention of professionals and entrepreneurs in the domain and hosting industry has just ended its 3 day run which started on October 6 and ended yesterday. It was a gathering industry experts and new to the web businesses who wishes to network, learn new strategies and business development in the internet. The event this year was spearheaded by Philbert Shih, founder and managing director at Structure Research.
During the run of the convention, keynote speaker Philbert Shih provided the attendees the growing trends of the market and also emphasized the success of new domain and hosting providers. He mentioned that the current lineup of publicly traded companies in the industry is a proof that the domain and hosting sector is stable and getting stronger as the years go by. He also commended on the performance of Rackspace and consider it as one of the top performers this year because it has grown as high as 20 percent this year.
Cloud hosting is also the big player in the industry according to Shih and most companies are offering mixed types of services with cloud services in its infrastructure. With the introduction of the Cloud in the hosting services, more enterprises are getting interested in the IaaS industry and it is getting competitive which now have Best Buy and Dell entering the hosting business.
The keynote speaker also said that the hosting industry is surviving the recession and that the success of Rackspace, iomart, Firehost and the new company Bluelock which has a growth increase of 50 percent is a testament to that.
Shih also expresses his concern about share hosting and mentioned that the heyday of shared hosting is over and that people should not continue to run their business the way the run it 10 to 15 years ago and it is either they change or their business will die.
Domain registrar and hosting companies like Network Solutions and GoDaddy has embraced the Cloud services but also provides a shared services for a lower fee.
