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 […]
A little info about Application Request Routing (or ARR) in IIS7. Read More »
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
Windows Hosting or Linux Hosting? Which runs PHP Faster? Read More »
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
AppliedI.net Windows Hosting Homepage revised Read More »
PHP on Windows Server is gaining great popularity thanks to Windows Hosts that support PHP like us (Applied Innovations), the work Microsoft and Zend are doing together to make PHP even faster on Windows and the large number of PHP developers that realize Apache represents only a piece of the total website/ webserver market out
Enabling WP Super Cache for WordPress on Windows Hosting Read More »
With the move of my blog to a new server, so comes a few new tweaks. Fortunately, I’m on an Windows 2008 Hosting account and I have had delegation enabled so I can remotely manage all the features in my IIS7 website with the IIS7 manager (but more on that in a later post). Earlier
Quickly Configure or Disable ETags in IIS7 or IIS6 Read More »
Microsoft released Hyper-V Server 2008 yesterday and it’s now available for FREE download. This is a bare-metal standalone hypervisor, meaning that you don’t install a host OS on the machine before installing this. You just install this and then create your VM’s and install the OS of choice into your VMs. I think the best
Microsoft releases Hyper-V 2008 Server. Read More »
Last week AppliedI.net announced support for Windows 2008 shared hosting and SQL Server 2008 shared hosting and I have immediately moved JessCoburn.com over to the new platform. My blog is based on WordPress which is a PHP application. On the IIS7 platform we’ve enabled FastCGI and are using the newest build of PHP5 with the
JessCoburn.com now running in Windows 2008 Shared Hosting Read More »
It’s a shame but not many website owners or for that matter, web developers are familiar with what SQL Injection is and just why it’s something they need to worry about. I’m noticing through various forums, friends, etc an increased number of sites being exploited for Cross Site Scripting through SQL Injection. Most blog readers
SQL Injection attacks and what you can do Read More »
A question that’s been coming up rather often lately is: “How do I configure the Windows Firewall on my Dedicated Server / VPS Server?” Not many people realize that in SP1 Windows 2003 got a software firewall feature added and even fewer are familiar with how to configure it correctly. Because of this I wanted
Tips on Configuring and Using Windows Firewall in your VPS and Dedicated Server Read More »
Ever since Bill Staples first blogged about the collaborative work Microsoft was doing with Zend to improve PHP stability and performance on IIS, I’ve been giddy as a school girl. Having run a core component of the AppliedI.net infrastructure that makes use of PHP and MySQL on IIS7 and making use of FastCGI and the
There’s a new database option available for PHP, It’s called SQL2005 Read More »