Who read the magazine? Who had a subscription?

What did you think of the magazine?

Greetings:

We get several copies at our office; it is the most read publication in our office.

Personally (this is Peter from our team), I find the publication to be very worth while.

While sometimes I find myself wishing the articles were further in depth (some feel like cliff hangers), I always learn something.

I got the latest issue today at the office; brought it home to read, and it will be heading back to the office in the morning for more fine tuned reading.

Thank you.

Is someone buying something??? ;)

I actually enjoyed it. Have had a subscription (free of course ;)) for 3 months, though i haven't finished january's....would be nice if they had some end-user oriented articles.

Well I loved it :D and I would have gladly paid money for it :)

I always looked forward to the next issue every month , as it was one of the best hosting related magazines I think.

Originally posted by phantasywork
Well I loved it :D and I would have gladly paid money for it :)

Same thing goes for me as well. I would gladly pay money for the magazine. Nice advertisements headsurfer ;)

are YOU thinking of buying it HeadSurfer ;)

IT was about the best magazine I have ever had a subscription to. I would have gladly paid for a subscription to help them stay in business.. Hopefully someone will pick up the peices and get it up and going again <hint hint>.. Maybe give advertisers a free subscription and charge something like 25-35.00 per year for others, also could have probably saved a bumdle not using the fancy heavy gloss paper as it was nice but not needed..

I have a subscription, read it every month, always interesting, informative articles and insight into the hosting industry.

It's a shame to see it go.

- John C.

Hahah - you outta buy it Marsh since you were already buying 20% of the advertising in there!

I thoroughly enjoyed the mag and the people there as well.

Robert, if you buy it can I be editor :D!! I already know the operation and worked extensively with the previous editors.

Seriously, it was a great magazine, and a great group of people to work with, they had a lot of great industry contacts, and garnered a lot of respect within the industry.

I am subscribed to the magazine and love it to death!

Its a great magazine with tons of information and interviews :)

Hey, Where did the magazine go? Or is it just a pay to read now?

It's an excellent magazine and I look forward to it each and every month. I think I read each magazine at least 5 times to make sure I got everything....:D

I'm an avid reader of HostingTech.... I'm an advertiser in HostingTech.... and I can't believe it may be gone. It's the only magazine of it's kind, and I just can't believe that there isn't a business plan that would make it work.

.... but then I'm not in the print-magazine business :)

Rob.

Originally posted by headsurfer
Who read the magazine? Who had a subscription?

What did you think of the magazine?

I dare you to buy it. I double dare ya! :D

It will be sorely missed. I do not think anyone wouldn't mind paying for a subscription. Especially if it came with 400 GBs of bandwidth.

Originally posted by UmBillyCord


I dare you to buy it. I double dare ya! :D

It will be sorely missed. I do not think anyone wouldn't mind paying for a subscription. Especially if it came with 400 GBs of bandwidth.

What if the new owner were to make HT a "popup magazine?"

or how about a yearly "swimsuit edition"??? :D

or how about a combination of the above two?

I have been getting the mag for quite some time.

I thought it was very well done and had some really good things to it.

One thing that it sometimes left out was the small to midsize companies.

Overall I give a top ranking and one of the top mags i got

Joe

A swimsuit edition of people in the hosting industry! Now there's a visual for ya. ;) Marsh in a speedo.

Originally posted by HostDirs.com
A swimsuit edition of people in the hosting industry! Now there's a visual for ya. ;) Marsh in a speedo.

nah actually i meant the ladies in the hosting community, namely, some of those that are pictured in some of the websites ;)

Originally posted by HostDirs.com
A swimsuit edition of people in the hosting industry! Now there's a visual for ya. ;) Marsh in a speedo.

Sorry I don't swing that way pal. ;)

j/k

I just recently signed up to receive the magazine subscription.

I would be very interested in advertising

I would be willing to pay for a subscription.

Yeah... Come on Robert buy it...


Really, in the end it will save you from having to pay for those big ads :D

Wonder what happened to them .... why they ceased publishing :(

The Hosting Tech magazine was probably one of the magazines that I found interesting, compared to the other Internet magazine's out there. I too would pay for a subscription, which is something I was going to do. I've only received one magazine in December that someone at Hosting Tech had sent me since I placed an AD in it. It's a good magazine... and Robert, if you do decide to take it on, I'm sure a LOT of people here would get a subscription, as long as you make the price right.

Alan

I enjoyed it. I would prefer to have more small to medium-sized businesses covered.

It's one of only two magazines that I read almost every article. Entrepreneur magazine is the other.

I recently started reading the magazine and I liked everything about it.

But I also noticed a UK magazine called "Internet"? in the book stores which had alot on web hosting mostly in the UK.

They have:
1) paid subscriptions
2) in the book stores
3) gave away some great software with every issue - easy buy when in the book store
4) always rated top hosts by uptime
5) many articles on tools for webmasters vs stories about web hosting companies.
6) lots of polls and surveys of the hosting business

I received and read this magazine every month. Others usually saw it on my desk and would take it and read it too.

Andrew

"I enjoyed it. I would prefer to have more small to medium-sized businesses covered."

I agree with you there Def Hosting - while I did enjoy reading about what verio did with their $66 million in additional funding, I too would have liked to see more of what various smaller to medium hosts were doing. I think they would have hit home with more readers.

I too agree with Def Hosting and HostDirs.com... where does the innovation happen? Its all on the lower level of businesses. It is much harder for the large corporations to implement anything simply because of their size. I'd love to see things like reviews of software for hosts to use (cpanel, ensim, plesk, modernbill, esupport, etc) as well as marketing articles and things like that. Maybe articles about the future and what it may bring to hosting companies or what technologies are being developed that could benefit us all in the future.

I was planning on getting a subscription. I would pay for it...

Originally posted by ServerSonic
I too agree with Def Hosting and HostDirs.com... where does the innovation happen? Its all on the lower level of businesses.

That's not entirely true. Small businesses are good at some things, but there is a lot of innovation that happens at large companies as well (hence the 3000+ patents that IBM filed last year). In fact large companies initiate a lot of things that trickle down to smaller companies -- a perfect example of this is the control panel. Larger hosts developed their own control panels in house, this idea caught on and other companies developed control panels targeted for smaller hosts.

As a smaller host, we always develop our own control panels in house. Basically because we don't trust anyone elses code for security flaws and the such especially when a control panel has so much 'control' :P

Even though I had just started receiving my subscription I thought the issue that I did was pretty cool. Some of the stuff, was way over my head, but the articles were pretty good. I agree with the person that said some of the articles felt like cliff hangers. The one article I read, I turned to the next page expecting more, but there wasn't anymore.

I think Hosting Tech could be turned into a profitable magazine while keeping the free. It could be done by sending it out by the quarter instead of the month and using a few free lance writers. If I had the cash to buy it, I'd take a shot at it.

As someone who partnered with Hosting Tech, I'm sorry to say that the economic downturn will not support the advertising-only supported model for a niche magazine. The dollars just aren't there.

A paid subscription model would likely fail as well, since the subscriptions can't cover production and the subscriber base would be cut in half (or more) which would destroy the rate card.

The magazine itself was great, but the costs are just too high.

Originally posted by UmBillyCord


I dare you to buy it. I double dare ya! :D



I tripple dog dare ya to buy it!

Seriously it is one of the few web/net/it magazines I read
front to back.

I would also pay a subscription fee for it to continue.

As someone stated use less costly paper and that would
curb considerable exspense.

Come on HeadSurfer... You know ya wanna...

I've been a subscriber for quite a few months now, I must say this last episode how so many great new articles it was probably one of the best. I love reading about our field and learning how very large companies made it to the top and stayed there. But the best part for the last few months has been turning to the page where I can see your handsome face Robert lol

Yea, it was a very nice mag, and I looked forward to recieving it every month.

Where do you go to subscribe to it? Or is it dead already? (from the tones of some posts)

As of right now they have given word that January was the last issue.

Who knows, with so much support from here maybe some eager entrepreneur will give it another shot.

I thought it was a great magazine and everyone in the office looked forward to its delivery.

We would definately be willing to pay for a subscription, especially enough to cover the postage which I am sure is expensive.

They should also have spent a little time cleaning up their mailing database. I personally received three copies to me. Two at the office and one to our PO Box. I actually contacted them regarding this once but nothing ever happened. If this happened to half of their subscribers, they were spending double on postage. I imagine a paid subscription even if $15/year would eliminate this.

Great articles and other content. Seemed like they were growing and doing very well before they threw in the towel. At least they did a good job of faking it.

They will be missed :(

I would think they can re-build themselves based on a subscription model ... an online members' only edition and/or pdf edition .. which would cut down on physical mailing costs.

Perhaps they can charge cheaper for the online version and a slightly higher subscription fee for the hard copy.

Recent news survey do show that internet users are getting more willing to pay for content that they want. So maybe an online subscription model may work for them ... my $0.02 :rolleyes:

According to the magazine retail price its $6.99 a copy..

so in retail, that works out to about $83.88 a year. I would gladly pay $75 a year for this magazine.. how many good hosting magazines are there?

I really wish somebody would do something here :(.. Contact your list of mailers perhaps, and ask who'd be willing to pay..

what did you guys think of Web Hosting Magazine when it was out?

Originally posted by iBiz
what did you guys think of Web Hosting Magazine when it was out?

For the most part I liked it. I thought they tried too hard at being cutting edge bad. An example is they would have a realy great article on a growing host and pepper the article here and there with Sh*t or F***. Other than that it was a great magazine as well.

I've been a subscriber since June 2002 and concur that it is a good zine. However, I think I would only pay for a subscription if it was geared toward small to medium sized businesses.

I've gotten it for a few months. Good for free, but I wouldn't pay for it, not at this point anyway.

Greetings:

The material in the magazine, if it were able to continue to be of consistant high quality, would be worth a reasonable paid subscription.

I can see where the production costs would be high considering the number of gloss and color productions in the magazine.

However, I would love to see this magazine saved if the content quality can be kept the same or improved.

Thank you.

Personally, I'd like to see the magazine resurrected and have some of the same articles it had, but also some more that are more business-oriented, relating directly to hosting.

Some of the questions that appear over and over at wht would be great additions to a magazine like that, but have the answers there be complete and several pages long. Things like:

- moving clients between servers with different control panels
- How do I begin?
- Developing a business/marketing plan
- Supporting clients 24/7 in a small company
- Corporate structure options in a hosting business
- cPanel/ensim/Plesk/etc tutorials
- Marketing a hosting biz on a zero budget

I think this industry is overrun by people who have absolutely no business knowledge. There are a certain percentage of successful, long-term hosts out there, but they are by far the minority. If word got out more of how to properly run a business, long-term hosts with good business-sense wouldn't have to contend as much with unlimited/unlimited hosting, 15cent/mo packages, etc.

Some of it is just because some people start a hosting business because it's so easy and cheap compared to most other businesses, and software automation helps a lot. Unfortunately this means that they can just pop up a reseller account, upload a hosting template with a few hours editing, sign up with PayPal, and they're hosting businesses - with nary a thought of how to make ends meet.

As for me I have been receiving HT for over a year now, and think it is a great magazine, and will miss it for sure.

Are their intentions of keeping the website operational at least for them.

Hell I would pay a reasonable price for a subscription as I think most would if it was asked of them. It is I think the only magazine left that is dedicated to the hosting industry that is still left in print, of course now it won't be in print anymore.

Headsurfer, if you are thinking of snatching it up, please do so, keep it alive.

I wish i had the chance to read it, sounds great.

Based on the comments here, I would subscribe before even reading an issue. If Headsurfer doesen't do pick it up, i'm sure someone else will eventually.

Robert
I have a subscription to Hosting Tech. The magazine is great except all the rackshack advertisments...just kidding... :)

For real, the magazine is great....and I hope it continues to improve...I also hope they do my story suggestion on young people in the web hosting industry.:D

I also liked the magazine although I also liked the small business slant of Web Hosting Magazine as I sometimes felt it was more relevant to our business.

I missed the Expo and was VERY sorry that I did.

Maybe a magazine that is a combination of both would hit the market. IMHO, it has to be advertiser supported, not subscription supported. Just my thought.

It will be interesting to see what happens.

I always looked forward to reading it and am very sorry it is now gone. I hope that a larger publishing firm picks it up!

Long Live HOSTINGTECH!

Personally I preferred the content of WH Mag as well and I think that most of the people on this board would agree. HostingTech had too much telecom info that we didn't find very useful, but it did have some useful information that I would definitely pay for.