I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out here that I was recently interviewed by HostSearch.com. HostSearch is an online hosting magazine that covers just about everything hosting related. You can see the Interview here.
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If you’re seeing viewstate errors like “The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted” here’s the dealio. For security ASP.NET encrypts the viewstate using an Autogenerated Key that is generated when your application pool (or worker process) is started. At AppliedI.net (and many hosts today) each website is placed in a unique
If you’re seeing viewstate errors like “The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted” here’s the dealio. For security ASP.NET encrypts the viewstate using an Autogenerated Key that is generated when your application pool (or worker process) is started. At AppliedI.net (and many hosts today) each website is placed in a unique
I subscribe to windowsecurity.com‘s newsletter which is actually a pretty good read. Today’s newsletter has an article about the Microsoft UK Events Website getting defaced and goes into great detail to show just how the site was compromised. In a nutshell, they used SQL Injection and the fact that the web.config was configured to display
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Last week myself and Carlos attended HostingCon 2007. This was my second HostingCon and Carlos’s third. HostingCon is the premiere annual webhosting event where hosting providers worldwide gather to discuss the industry, technology and general hosting business matters. One of the greatest things about hostingcon is that you get to network with your peers (competing
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Here’s Jess’s top 10 tips and tricks to help optimize your Windows VPS server running on Virtuozzo. Disable Indexing Service. Unless you’re using the FrontPage search bot you generally don’t need indexing service running and you should disable it. Defrag your drives. Disk I/O is king, especially in a VPS and you should be regularly defragging your
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This week at Tech-Ed Bob Muglia announced that IIS7 would be supported as a role in Windows Server Core 2008. If you’re not familiar with Server Core, it’s a trimmed down version of Windows Server 2008 with just the bare minimum bits needed to run. Over the past few months we’ve had the great pleasure here
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Last week myself and Carlos Caneja spoke on webhosting and how it relates to e-commerce applications at the aspdotnetstorefront / interprise suite, “Connections Business Technology Conference”. If you’re not familiar with what interprise and aspdotnetstorefront are doing, these two companies have been working together to bring a complete CRM/ERP solution that integrates with an e-Commerce application
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I was using the wayback machine at archive.org to review some of the old versions of the AppliedI.net website. Here’s one of the earliest versions. This was actually the second incarnation of www.appliedi.net: This was from late 1999, note the emphasis on NT Hosting! 🙂 Here’s what our site looked like in 2001. Some
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You walk away with a ton of new links and tools to go check out. I attended the “exploring new web technologies” training session today by Microsoft, lead by the infamous Joe Healy. Although much of the information was redundant from other training I have attended previously (this was a 100 level training session actually) I
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