Applied Innovations is all grown up & Microsoft Certified Gold!
Applied Innovations (www.appliedi.net) (applied-eye is how we say it, most of our hosting clients call it app-lid-E) was merely an idea in November of 1998, in February of 1999 we took on our first webhosting clients and officially launched the company as a Microsoft Windows webhosting company running NT4 and IIS4.0 and offering both ASP & PERL on windows! When Windows...
Read MoreMicrosoft & Zend give PHP a kickstart on IIS .. FastCGI for IIS!
Microsoft & Zend have partnered up to improve PHP performance on IIS (yet again!). Today on Bill Staples blog he talks about the great improvements being made: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2006/10/31/PHP-on-IIS.aspx and really goes in depth with a nice demo on performance improvements being made. He has some nice screen captures, etc. For me though, the best part...
Read MoreInternet Explorer 7 & Firefox Search Provider support added at AppliedI.net
The Applied Innovations Webhosting Support Knowledgebase (support.appliedi.net) sees as many as 35,000 pageviews a day and as such we’re constantly looking for new ways to increase it’s ease of use for our webhosting clientbase. Microsoft officially launched IE7 yesterday and we released our updated knowledgeable to coincide with the launch of IE7 and to leverage one of the...
Read MoreWhy support PHP, PERL, MySQL, etc on shared Windows Hosting?
Many Windows hosts today are proudly stating “we only support Microsoft technologies on Microsoft hosting” and they follow it up with such statements as “why support something that doesn’t have commercial support behind it? when there’s a problem who do you go to?” or “We don’t support these other scripting engines because they steal server...
Read MoreWhich VPS platform is the fastest? Benchmarking Virtuozzo, VMWare and Microsoft Virtual Server on Windows.
I’ve pulled the article until I have time to properly benchmark all three systems on identical hardware, hopefully after the holidays. Although I used different hardware, I firmly believe my numbers provided a reasonable estimate of what performance you would see using identical hardware. I’d had verbal feedback from others that in fact they saw similar results but...
Read MorePHP is not secure on Windows!
Today I was told “PHP is not secure on Windows” and “if you ran PHP on a windows server your server would get hacked“. To add insult to injury, it was then implied that running PHP on your server would steal resources on your server that would otherwise be available to your ASP or ASP.net applications and that if you wanted to operate a serious website you would never...
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