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Windows Server 2012 and Partnering with Microsoft!
Today at Applied Innovations, we announced that we have officially launched Windows Server 2012 Beta cloud servers on top of a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster! This is all really cool because it’s the first time we’ve been able to publicly discuss the amount of time we’ve been working with Microsoft around Windows Server 2012 Beta. In fact, it’s been painful not being able to...
Read Morespyonweb.com: A Great Tool for Competitor Analysis
With web hosting, like many business niches, it’s not uncommon for a company to maintain multiple brands. A lot of times companies will run multiple domains with sub sites setup for SEO and be very niche focused. In web hosting, it’s also not uncommon for a company to perform marketing tactics like run their own “top 10 review site”, “developer tips website”, “developer...
Read More5 Cloud Predictions: Where’s it headed? What’s the future?
Interestingly enough, it seems I’ve had the same conversation 4 or 5 times in the last couple months. More or less it all starts the same way: “What do you think of the acquisition of X?” or “Are you worried about Y entering the cloud/hosting market?”. I believe if we look far enough back at how the Internet, Web Hosting and IT in general has evolved we’ll see that it’s pretty...
Read MoreHow to resurrect a Beta Fish with Office Voodoo
I have a small beta tank on my desk (it used to have a couple of those Brookstone frogs in it, but they’ve long moved on) and recently my Beta decided it was time to visit ‘the other side’. So I thought this would be a great opportunity to demonstrate my keen abilities of ‘Office Voodoo’. To perform this you’ll need the below items Mystical stone from a far off land – I got...
Read More10 Ways to Improve WordPress Performance on Windows
Last year I attended the San Francisco WordCamp because I wanted to see what the Core WordPress team had to say about WordPress Hosting on Windows. Sadly, it was my experience there that they’re still not very Windows friendly. I personally believe it’s one of two reasons: There’s still this mentality that Microsoft is Evil and out to shut down all things open-source. I...
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