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Right off to bed now Done a bit tonight. http://licensecart.com/site/ Pages done: - Index - Products - Blesta (From products page) - About (From Company tab) All in a day wow! haha

As you guys know, Cody and I went to Austin this week for HostingCon. We had a really good time, and met with a ton of people. It's definitely interesting to see what everyone is up to, meet some people again, and others for the first time in person. Here are a few pics from our time there.. The convention center - Main hall, before opening ceremony - cPanel/SoftLayer party (part of it, there was another room and a balcony up top where most people were) - Around town, the capitol building - Cody posing by the competitions booth - Competition Jenga, it kept falling apart, over and over and over (A sign?) - Some of you may be wondering, yes we did meet both Aaron and Matt and others from their team. We didn't think to ask for a photo at the time, but we had a really good, friendly chat. Even though we are competitors, it was really nice to meet them. Ultimately, we strengthened some relationships, formed some new ones, and got a lot of great ideas that should be coming down the pipeline in the future. Wherever we went, we found people who were excited about Blesta and wished us the best. It's really great to know that so many people are behind us, and it's hard not to get at least a little charged up about the future. So, was HostingCon Austin a success? Absolutely! Looking forward to the future.

Thanks mate, few more to do and then Blesta V3 new plans for resellers Edit: Site may be down for a few people, had to move it to my billing.cubicwebs.com account to get the billing.licensecart.com working. shouldn't be long I can view it but I'm using level3 Public DNS.

Wow love them mate nice tools like the Html one where you can see it next to you

Hah - love the shot of Cody at WHMCS! The hosting industry is great. Sure we all sell against each other and compete for many of the same customers, but there's a tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes help going on. Look at how often the heavy hitters from Softlayer / Rack911 / InnoHosting / etc hang out on WHT and offer help to newbies. It's like a giant, free, master class on web hosting, and when it hits the fan, you've always got some very experienced, very intelligent people to help out. However: There's definitely a series of cliques going on there. If you're a tiny host (those of us with under a thousand subscribers), I can definitely see feeling "left out". When you're chatting with guys talking about how they just bought 14 racks worth of E5-2620s, it can be a little hard to relate about how you hope the half rack of E3-1230s you ordered last month give you enough capacity for six months' worth of new customers. There were a few vendors at HostingCon 2012 who literally walked away from us mid-conversation when they found out we were in the sub-1000 club. Not going to name & shame those vendors, but they added themselves to my personal "never buy" list. On the other hand, some of the vendors really went out of their way to be awesome to us and other tiny hosts. PhoenixNAP organized a bar crawl with open bars, and EVERYONE was invited. Bill from TheSSLStore, after talking about our projected annual revenue (we were only seven months old at the time), upgraded us to their cheapest pricing tier and spent a LONG time talking sales techniques with me. The guys from Limestone Networks chased me down (figuratively!) to chat about FRH's marketing and strategy. Now, maybe those were all just examples of good sales technique (especially since we're now working with a lot of those vendors), but being a tiny host means you don't get too many big-name vendors actively chasing you down and learning about your company while trying to earn your business. All too often, it's "the rest of the industry uses us and you will too, and we really don't care either way". Most of the keynotes we attended in 2012 were either really mediocre or just badly executed. Definitely not worth the $$$, largely due to the quality of information and presentation. I'm seriously considering getting a tradeshow-only pass for 2014.

Nice idea mate, but sadly the bootstap lightview doesn't support it might do in the future haha, one thing I hate about not being a developer

Though I can "nitpick" some more if you want! lol Now that I'm playing with that, I kind of wish you scroll left and right in the preview window... so you can scroll through the screenshots without getting out of the preview screen. Facebook has me spoiled on scrolling through pictures that way.. Which, then would probably mean you'd have to add the caption for each image when previewing them so you can know what you're looking at while scrolling through them. This of course isn't a big deal, I just have a preference certain things..you know? but I do like what you're doing!!

Defcon talks are far more interesting than talks at HostingCon. No doubt about it, but Summers in Vegas are not pleasant.

I may post the photo later. Never been to Defcon, would definitely like to go sometime.