Posts made in August, 2009

JessCoburn.Com running on ARR! and that not be Pirate speak thar Matey!

3 Blog posts to say “Hey I’m running on my site load balanced using ARR”. This is the third and hopefully last blog post for tonight.  I posted two other posts tonight: Discusses the first stage of Applied Innovations Cloud Initiative. Discusses ARR & Load balancing. All of this was to explain how I’m running my website currently (which I tend to test everything on first so I...

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Elastic Computing AKA Cloud Computing as provided by Applied Innovations

I broke this post up into a series of posts. The first post (just published) gives an overview of ARR in IIS7 and why it’s cool. This post is going to talk about the first stage of cloud computing we’ve deployed at Applied Innovations and the benefit’s of it such that you could use it today to control your own hosted IT Infrastructure costs. About the Applied Innovations Cloud...

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A little info about Application Request Routing (or ARR) in IIS7.

In the 10 years I’ve been working with Windows as a web hosting platform (and the 15 or so I’ve been working with web servers period), I can confidently say that IIS7 is without question the best web server platform to date.  Microsoft has been working on a plug-in for IIS called Application Request Routing (or ARR). The first version of ARR provided a suite of tools that allowed it to...

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Windows Hosting or Linux Hosting? Which runs PHP Faster?

This is one of those questions everyone and their brother tries to answer and it seems in the 10 years we’ve been offering web hosting at the question is still the same and the answers are still the same BS 10 year old answers.. Typically you hear responses from the advocates of Linux over Windows such as these: Keep Microsoft for Microsoft and Use Linux for everything else. (yeah those days...

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