A few fun facts on HostingCon 2008, the premiere Web hosting conference held in Chicago on July 28-30.

HostingCon 2008 by the numbers:

2. Number of Web hosting providers exhibiting this year headquartered in Plano, TX: SoftlLayer (Booth 423) & Layered Tech (Booth 301)

10. Terabytes/day in data transmission takes place in Chicago.

1500. Expected attendees, this year at HostingCon 2008.

4321. Distance, in miles, to Chicago from intergenia (Booth 115) headquarters in Germany. That’s 6897 km/3773 nautical miles in case you’re wondering.

12,000. Cost, in USD, of the Harley Davidson motorcycle being given away by Ping! Zine (Booth 527) et al.

20,000. The net square feet of booth space used by HostingCon.

25,000. Number of different custom server configurations installed by Layered Technologies.

65,000. Number of websites hosted by HostMySite.com (booth 411)

303,000. Number of Google Results for “HostingCon”. (07-25-08)

15,000,000. Number of shares involved in the IPO of managed Web hosting company, Rackspace.

22,500,000,000. Operating profit, 22.5 billion USD, for Microsoft (Booth 501)in FY08, up 21 percent.

Source: TopHosts.com, the complete Web hosting resource.