Dan Ushman

Dan Ushman

Dan began his career in the internet infrastructure industry at midPhase Services, Inc., a shared hosting provider that grew to over 150,000 customers before being acquired by UK2 Group. At midPhase, Dan contributed heavily to its rise from a small company to one of the largest shared hosting providers in the United States with over 150,000 customers and $18 million in revenue.

At SingleHop, Dan focuses on the company’s marketing strategy and operations, leading the company’s growing marketing team and working to bridge the gap between marketing, sales and technology. Dan believes heavily in differentiation, and focuses on highlighting SingleHop’s unique and powerful technology platform which helps it stand out from its competitors in a saturated and fragmented marketplace.

Dan regularly attends and speaks at industry and marketing events. As a recognized thought leader in online marketing, Dan is one of the few internet marketing professionals to hold a Horizon Award for Marketing Innovation. When he isn't working, Dan can be found in his kitchen whipping up homemade BBQ sauce, or in front of the grill with a spatula putting that sauce to work.

Articles by Dan Ushman

Oct 31, 2012
Dan Ushman

If you’re in NY, NJ, a website, a business, a server in a data center there, and you’re down, or afraid of going down soon – give us a call; we’ll hook you up with as similar as solution as possible; on our dime. For 3-4 months, or whenever you’re ready to move back, whichever [...]

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Oct 30, 2012
Dan Ushman

Executive Summary: Infrastructure as a Service consists of physical or virtual computers. The virtual machines form what is commonly known as “the cloud” through simulating the processes of physical servers. Estimates of the space savings from the virtualization of physical servers range anywhere from a factor of 20:1 to 40:1. This software simulation allows the [...]

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Oct 30, 2012
Dan Ushman

Dear Readers: welcome to the first of three posts in the “SingleHop’s Scary Server Stories”.  We’ve rewritten some of this year’s noted server failures, hacks, and general “OMG what have I done” moments by giving them a little “seasonal spirit”. We hope you enjoy the stories as much as we did writing them. -Team SingleHop [...]

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Oct 26, 2012
Dan Ushman

This is Part Two of a two part series – to see the first article, “Making the Business Case for Infrastructure – Part I: Rent or Buy? (Capex vs Opex)”, click here – In this section, we’re going to discuss the world that CFO’s live and breathe in. But don’t be alarmed – even if [...]

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Oct 15, 2012
Dan Ushman

There’s a rent or buy dimension to infrastructure decisions, and the direction you go has significant long term implications for a company, so it’s important to know the difference between the two. You can think of it like a car. Should you buy or lease? There are reasons why you’d do either. It’s a similar [...]

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Oct 8, 2012
Dan Ushman

Summary: 10/8/2012 — Chicago, IL., SingleHop, LLC., a leading provider of cloud hosting, kicked off the Channel Partners program on Thursday 10/4/12. The program is designed specifically to help systems integrators, IT consultants, value added resellers and other IT related service providers to drive revenue and growth from the cloud. – Full press release: http://www.singlehop.com/about/singlehop-channel-program-launch.php

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Oct 3, 2012
Dan Ushman

Summary: 10/3/2012 – Chicago, IL – SingleHop, a global leader in cloud hosting, launched a new and improved Data Center Outlet at singlehop.com/outlet – the Data Center Outlet has several unique features, including exact real time inventory from SingleHop’s data centers. The inventory figures are updated hourly on the page and there is also a countdown [...]

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Sep 20, 2012
Dan Ushman

Come and kick the tires on SingleHop’s new trendsetting transparency. One of our core strengths is in our network uptime and rock solid data centers, and we’re willing to back that up with real-time, public-facing monitoring, which anyone is welcome to see: http://ot.singlehop.com It includes history – this week, this month, this year:   The [...]

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Sep 13, 2012
Dan Ushman

by Matt Kuikman (Click here to see Part One) Alright readers, rest assured your voices have been heard. You wanted to know more about SEO; so that’s exactly what we’re going to give you. That’s why we’ve decided to publish a collection of blog posts that dive into more detail about effective SEO that you [...]

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Sep 7, 2012
Dan Ushman

SingleHop Joins Spiceworks! Spiceworks is a global community of 2 million IT pros, who use the site to do their jobs and learn about the products and services they need directly from the tech vendors who provide them. It’s the fastest growing and one of the most widely used network management web based tools on [...]

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