Hosting Hoopla Closes
It’s a sad day for web hosting news consumers. The news aggregation site for the web hosting niche, HostingHoopla.com has closed. Several days ago I had expected to visit Hosting Hoopla and get the latest news. Instead, I read…
Due to lack of intrest [sic], popularity and time – Hosting Hoopla has shut it’s doors.
Please, feel free to check out the Web Hosting Show or any of my other projects. Thanks!
Hosting Hoopla is believed to have been the first Web hosting RSS, news and link reader. The site, run by web hosting industry personality, Mitch Keeler of the Web Hosting Show podcast, aggregated news from many leading web hosting news sources (including, at times, WebHostingFinds.com) into one easy-to-read page. The main page featured sites like TopHosts.com, WebHosting.Info, the WHIR, WebHostGear, NetCraft and several leading web hosting forums.
Like many of us, Mitch oberves the dullness and boredom surrounding many web hosting news and information sites and wanted to generate some buzz and excitement around the hosting niche (I actually believe he is accomplishing this through the Web Hosting Show). Chalk up another victory for the “nerds in white buttoned up shirts and black ties,” who seem to be behind the web hosting industry. We’ll never be rid of them, it seems.
I’m wondering what, if anything, this portends for niche news sites. What do you think?
Yes, I think you summed everything up right there.
It was a burden for me, and to free myself for a few more projects I had to let it go. That, plus I was kind of disappointed that it didn’t get more buzz. I guess not all ideas can be winners.
Web hosting industry nerds in white buttoned up shirts and black ties siting: http://www.hostingweekmag.com/issues.html