I believe that Hosting.com and other service providers have been deficient in the amount of communications we share with you; our clients. Patch updates, service enhancements or pricing changes are typically the only times you hear from our industry – with The Hosting Communicator we intend to change that! The merger of two successful and diverse hosting companies - Hosting.com and HostMySite - provides us with unique industry perspectives and solutions that we want to share with you.

I have long contended that Hosting.com and other service providers are not that innovative and that the services we provide aren’t that flashy. However, what our clients, partners and even employees do with our technologies and what they deliver to their clients is genius and worth writing about. Be sure to check out our upcoming webinar on PCI Compliance in the Cloud with Alert Logic, our Tips for Mail Client Configurations or how clients can now deploy ColdFusion 9 in Cloud Enterprise.

The Hosting Communicator will share insider information and trends on: the state of Hosting.com and the managed hosting, cloud hosting, and colocation industries, our strategic business partners, upcoming events and resources made available to you. It will also explore how companies just like yours are using our services and solutions to meet security needs, comply with federal regulations, focus on their core competencies and GROW their revenues and business.

You probably agree that Web 2.0 technologies are changing the business landscape and allow companies to communicate more effectively with their clients and clients more effectively with their service providers. I mention this because it is our goal to use Web 2.0 tools to continue the dialogue that our sales, support and service teams have already established with you and your business.

We encourage you to provide feedback, post comments on the articles, forward to your friends, and even email us when you have more detail to add, request clarification or even an opposing viewpoint. We can and will learn from the feedback that you provide.

We made a conscience effort to have several writers and editors for this publication from all departments at Hosting.com and some not from Hosting.com so that it is agile and focused on our readers and their businesses. The Hosting Communicator will be published once every month. We hope that you enjoy and find value from the content.