Posts made in July, 2010
WPC Talk 4/4: Deploying the infrastructure for 5000 shared hosting accounts in just 3 business days
On the evening of June 9th I received an invitation for Applied Innovations to join a beta program that would be initially limited to just 3-4 hosters. The program would give us an 8 month jump start on our competition with a new program Microsoft was going to promote, later to be known as WebMatrix. In order to join the program we had to build out the infrastructure for 5000 trial/beta hosting...
Read MoreWPC Talk 3/4: WebsiteSpark and it’s impact on Applied Innovations
We were among the first hosts invited to be a part of WebsiteSpark and quickly made WebsiteSpark a core focus for our company because it fit very well with both our business philosophy and model. As a result, Applied Innovations has been leading the hosting industry in sponsored WebsiteSpark enrollments. WebsiteSpark explained in 60 seconds If you’re not familiar the WebsiteSpark program it’s...
Read MoreWPC Talk 2/4 : The Dynamic Datacenter and the impact it’s had on Applied Innovations.
In February of last year we were approached by Microsoft to try out this new managed hosting platform that was still in development. You see, prior to approaching us Microsoft had been working with another hoster (MaximumASP) and wanted to make sure this was a product that would have traction in the hosting industry. We were uniquely positioned for this task as we had successfully built a new...
Read MoreAttending WPC & Guest Speaking at a Session on Microsoft’s Technology Vision for Next Generation Hosting (part 1/4)
This week I’ll be traveling to the Microsoft 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference and I’m excited because I’ll have ‘Speaker Credentials’ at this, Microsoft’s Flagship event for Partners. I’ve been invited by Anil Reddy to speak during his sessions and talk about our successes recently that were made possible thanks to our partnership with Microsoft. I’ll also be sharing how we’re...
Read MoreAdding W3C Validation to WebMatrix
One of the extremely cool features with IIS Developer Express is that you can extend it with the same modules you’d extend IIS7.5 with. Examples of popular modules are the IIS SEO Toolkit, FastCGI and WinCache. Which are all included already. I’ve been looking for a module to add to it as an example that would bring value to web developers and came across a great post in...
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