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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 […]

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5 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

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10 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

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Book Review of EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and things have just been insanely busy at Applied Innovations, but I wanted to send out a compliments to Dave Ramsey for his book: EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches For anyone that’s in a management position, running your own business and struggling to

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The CAN-SPAM Act and did PowerDNN.com DotNetNuke Hosting Violate it? You be the judge

SPAM is an interesting topic.  There are several different definitions of SPAM and depending on who you talk to, you’ll get any of a number of explanations of what SPAM is or is not. At Applied Innovations, our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) defines SPAM very clearly and that it’s not tolerated here at Applied Innovations:

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Quickly backup iis metabase on a Windows Cloud Server

Recently, I was invited to give a presentation at the Orlando DotNetNuke Usersgroup around DotNetNuke website performance.  The first tidbit of information I provided was that when you’re running on a Windows Cloud Server or Windows VPS Server or a Managed Windows Server, you always to make backups of your configuration before making sweeping changes.

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Instantly get a 40% performance boost in your PHP applications!

For years now  I’ve been spreading the word about how great PHP runs on Windows.  In fact, my own blog runs on PHP on Windows.   It also amazes me today the amount of closed minded individuals out there with established misconceptions around how PHP runs on Windows.  This really all dates back to the early

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