Daniel Briere is President of x90x.net, an online media company focused on the free web hosting sector. Prior to his work with x90x.net and its predecessors, Mr. Briere spent time learning the ropes at several other Web hosts. In addition to x90x.net, Daniel is also employeed in the transportation industry (working in Pricing) and serves on the Board of Directors of a financial institution. He holds two Computer Science degrees and is currently working towards an MBA.
For the longest time, Detroit failed to recognize the inferiority of their own products. "Why wouldn't anyone want gas-guzzling, boring, low-quality, over-priced vehicles?" they reasoned.
...moreE-Commerce Times reports that Google is seeking to acquire Twitter, the wildly popular 140-character-or-less micro-blogging service. This is after the world's largest social network Facebook made an offer of $500 million ($100 million of that in cash!) for Twitter last December, which was rejected.
...morePopular Web hosting-oriented community WebHostingTalk (aka WHT) has suffered a severe outage since yesterday, followed by the loss of all data posted since October 2008. Site administrators state they are working on restoring failed backups and hope to have things running smoothly again in the very near future.
...moreWhat's one of the newest trends in Web hosting? Full-featured Website creation and hosting solutions that downplay the need for separatedesign and hosting functions altogether.
...moreA question I am often asked is how to determine whether a host is fly-by-night or here to stay. In other words, how does one know whether his host will be around in 3 years when he purchases a 3-year hosting package?
...moreJust a quick thought here on unlimited hosting: sure, there is no such thing as a hard drive with unlimited space, a common argument of those who are against unlimited hosting plans. But, have you ever heard of anyone with unlimited data?
...moreDepending on your host, things can get much better or much worse. People usually stop spending money on things deemed un-necessary during a downturn, and hosting usually falls under this category.
...moreSo here's a question for you: is it possible that free hosting will ever completely displace paid hosting as the solution most personal and small-business users turn to? Is it possible that 10 years from now, a large majority of hosting accounts will either be on free shared hosting servers or dedicated servers?
...moreUnless you've been living in a hole in the ground, chances are you've heard about (and probably participated in heated debates discussing) Web hosting overselling over the past couple of years. However, one aspect of overselling is rarely discussed: the long-term effects on the Web hosting industry.
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