Web Hosting Facts & Figures- HostingCon 2009

Some fun facts about the premiere Web hosting conference in North America.

HostingCon 2009 by the numbers:

0. Number of motorcycles given away at HostingCon 2009; same number as last year.

3. Number of Online Backup providers exhibiting this year: BackupAgent Booth #129, R1Soft #324, Vembu Technologies #301.

4. Companies acquired buy UK2.net Group #323 since last HostingCon: VI.net (Jan 2009), WestHost (Nov. 2008); Dotable (Oct.2008); WingSix (July 2008)

8. Number of years since a big Web Hosting show was held in DC. Web Hosting Expo was held on August 20-22, 2001 at Marriott Wardman Park.

100. Number of HostingCon 2009 Exhibitors - from Actual Metrics #429 to Zix Corporation #441.

1472. Distance, in miles, to Austin, TX - site of HostingCon 2010 - from the TopHosts.com (#334) HQ in Toronto, Canada. (2369 km/1279 nautical miles)

80,000. Number of shared Web hosting customers acquired by Hostopia #328 (Deluxe) in the Aplus.net buyout in July ‘09.

126,000. Number of searches on Bing (Microsoft #101) for ‘HostingCon 2009’ on August 07-09.

470,000. Amount of square feet in meeting space provided by Gaylord National, the largest hotel/convention center on the East Coast.

4,000,000. Amount of SSL Certificates issued (and counting) by VeriSign Booth #416

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