Episode 149 – Ben Gabler

Welcome to another episode of The HERO Show. I am your host Richard Matthews, (@AKATheAlchemist) and you are listening to Episode 149 with Ben Gabler – Simplifying the Process of Accelerating and Securing Your Website.

Ben Gabler has been in the web hosting industry since high school. He has expanded market share for major global Web hosting brands and brought technology startups from initial idea to success.

In 2006, Ben launched the web-hosting company named Host Nine which was then purchased by Hostgator. He developed EasyRent.com, the first-ever all-in-one property management platform. Then took on a new role in late-2015 as a Chief Executive Officer at customer service software company at Help.com.

Upon completion of the Help.com Platform, Ben joined Lance Crosby and the team at StackPath as Chief Product Officer for over two years. Ben is now the Founder and CEO of  Rocket.net — an all-in-one Managed WordPress Hosting platform built for WordPress Websites of all sizes.

Here’s just a taste of what we talked about today:

  • Ben Gabler calls in from sunny South Florida in a town called Jupiter. We also talked a little bit about our travel experience in Kissimmee, Florida during the hype of COVID-19.
  • We began our interview with how Ben started Rocket.net. The platform was born because he saw a lot of people trying to grasp what CDN (Content Delivery Network) was all about and how to configure it. This inspired Ben to simplify web security by focusing on WordPress.
  • Then, we discussed the importance of including CDN or WAF in the hosting platform.
  • Next, we talked about how Rocket.net interacts with PageSpeed tests and how it relates to great user experience. 
  • Ben shared how they hosted big sites like hannity.com during national events such as the election.
  • Then, Ben shared his business origin story. We talked about his web hosting during high school through his friend, Adam.
  • Next, we discuss bridging the gap between business, product, and engineering. This  is Ben’s superpower that allows him to spur growth in web hosting companies.
  • Product positioning was one of the things Ben had been struggling with in his business. Even today, he still tries to figure out the perfect balance in that aspect.
  • And then, we discuss the things Ben constantly fights with in his business—Budget Hosting—and how most people don’t even understand the true value of what they are getting.

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The HERO Challenge

Today on the show, Ben Gabler challenged Gary Simat to be a guest on The HERO Show. Ben thinks that Gary is a fantastic person to interview because got an amazing entrepreneurial story to share. Gary is the CEO of Performive, a company that he runs for a really long time.

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