August 8th, 2009 | 
Author: 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 function as a Application Layer Load Balancer! The recently updated beta version extends that functionality and now makes it easy to turn a Windows Server running IIS7 into not only a Load Balancer but also a Reverse Proxy / Cache Server. Meaning you could potentially power a CDN using a bunch of Windows Servers.
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Tags: application request routing, arr, iis7, windows hosting | 
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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:
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Tags: php, php windows hosting., PHP-on-windows |
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My most popular blog post is about installing Windows 2008 from a USB thumb drive. Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and used the same instructions to do that upgrade. So the instructions for:
- Installing Vista from a USB Thumb Drive
- Installing Windows Server 2008 from a USB Thumb Drive
- Installing Windows 7 from a USB Thumb Drive
Windows Hosting has a new look, at AppliedI.net anyway. Our developers have been working on a new site design for us for quite some time now and yesterday we went live with several homepage changes that reflect the new changes in the works for the appliedi website. Don’t worry though we’re not anywhere near done as we’re migrating the site to a CMS application that will allow the site to be more dynamic and updated much more frequently.
Being a technologist all my life I’ve come to realize one thing: “to be good at what you do you can never stop learning”. (I also think to remain youthful at any age it’s important to never stop learning but that’s another conversation altogether.)
With that in mind you’re often confronted with a task that you don’t know the answer to. But if you know where to look for the answer chances are you find it quickly enough (yeah.. thank you Mr. Obvious). I’m doing some work with SQL Reporting and quite frankly my SQL query Kung Fu is weak. But there’s hundreds of books on the topic and available for me to review and here’s a few tips that will hopefully improve my SQL query Kung-Fu and become useful to you as well.
