Interview with Jonathan LaCour, Vice President, Cloud and Development, at DreamHost

If you've been in the hosting arena for awhile, you know DreamHost. What you may know is that they have had these great deals on domains+hosting that may have even reeled you in. But you may not know about the commitment to cloud infrastructure. We learned more about this with Jonathan LaCour, the Vice President of Cloud of Development at DreamHost, who gave us a really exhaustive look at his involvement in the company and in working on the cloud.

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Interview with Allen MacCannell, VP Sales & Partnerships at WebCEO.

In this interview you can learn from Allen MacCannell, VP Sales & Partnerships WebCEO Limited (one of the leading SEO Software & White Label SEO Tools). WebCEO was founded in 1992 (Rebranded from Radiocom in 2000). It was the first Desktop SEO tool and today offers a set of 15 online SEO tools for both agencies and individuals.

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Interview with Otto van der Schaaf of We-Amp and IISpeed

Ever wonder how search engines perceive your website? We don't know all the answers, but we do know bits and pieces--enough to know these days that slow websites make for a poor user experience which means that search engines don't want to rank those websites high enough to contribute to that poor UX. We sat down with Otto van der Schaaf who has been working on two separate (but related) projects on page speed, and who boasts, among his partners, Google. Here's his story.

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Interview with Linode CMO Casey Smith

Watching how companies grow has always fascinated me. It's especially heartening to learn about how Linode has grown in just the last 1.5 years. It was a pleasure for me to sit down with Casey Smith, Chief Marketing Officer at Linode, who has told us about the company and how his experience plays a role in its past, current, and future growth. The company's primary focus on support and dependability has given it an edge and has helped it grow outside its North American borders to maintaining a global presence. We assume they're just getting started. Meet Casey:

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Interview with Media Temple president Rod Stoddard

After interviewing mainly entrepreneurs in their 30s who built their own company and grew fast, maybe without seeing enough on the way, it was a refreshing experience for me to sit down with Rod Stoddard, a tech industry veteran with 17 years of experience in the IT, cloud computing and e-commerce industries, and talk about Media Temple’s past and future.

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