{"id":39571,"date":"2011-09-18T15:47:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/phil%e2%80%99s-dc-hostingcon\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:47:14","slug":"phil%e2%80%99s-dc-hostingcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetology\/phil%e2%80%99s-dc-hostingcon.php","title":{"rendered":"PHIL\u2019s DC: HostingCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hostingcon.com\">HostingCon 2011<\/a> in San Diego may have been a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.softlayer.com\/2011\/softlayer-at-hostingcon-2011\/\">huge success<\/a> for SoftLayer, but I walked away with a different experience following my intense pursuit of building the PHIL&#8217;s DC brand. <em>Apparently<\/em>, the hosting industry wants to see my data center succeed before they believe it, and I think it&#8217;s really just fear rearing its ugly head. People are afraid of what they don&#8217;t understand, so the uninitiated would probably be <strong>terrified<\/strong> as they try to learn <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.softlayer.com\/2011\/phils-dc-a-tour-of-the-facility\/\">what I&#8217;m doing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to help some of the bigger names in the hosting industry get in on the ground floor of PHIL&#8217;s DC, I took a stroll down the HostingCon aisles. Vendors like Parallels and cPanel were obvious choices to discuss business partnerships, and I was sure TheWHIR wanted the scoop on the next big thing in hosting, so I made sure to give them all a chance to speak with me. The documentary film team I hired (the guy I met outside the San Diego Convention Center who said he&#8217;d follow me with a camera for $3.50\/hour) recorded our interactions for posterity&#8217;s sake:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d like send shouts out to thank Candice Rodriguez from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhir.com\">TheWHIR<\/a>, Aaron Phillips from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanel.net\">cPanel<\/a> and John McCarrick from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\">Parallels<\/a> for agreeing to let us film our organic interactions. They&#8217;ve further inspired me to build a data center that will make these apparent &#8220;snubs&#8221; and &#8220;rejections&#8221; a thing of the past. To Summer and Natalie at the SoftLayer booth: Please stop making fun of my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.softlayer.com\/2011\/blood-sweat-and-tears-the-server-challenge\/\">Server Challenge<\/a> attempt every time you see me at the office &#8230; I think I had something in my eye when I was competing, so it wasn&#8217;t a fair measure of my skillz.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you didn&#8217;t get a chance to attend our &#8220;Geeks Gone Wild&#8221; party at HostingCon, you&#8217;d probably be interested in seeing video from The Dan Band&#8217;s performance of &#8220;Total Eclipse of the Heart,&#8221; cPanel posted it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/28160105\">http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/28160105<\/a> (NSFW language, The Dan Band take artistic license with profanity)<\/p>\n<p>-PHIL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HostingCon 2011 in San Diego may have been a huge success for SoftLayer, but I walked away with a different experience following my intense pursuit of building the PHIL&#8217;s DC brand. Apparently, the hosting industry wants to see my data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetology\/phil%e2%80%99s-dc-hostingcon.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}