Over the past month I’ve been asked several times by vendors, colleagues and friends “What do I think about DotNetPanel deciding to go open source as WebsitePanel?” Well… I think it’s FANTASTIC! There I said it! I’ve evaluated DotNetPanel in the past and found it to be very powerful, full of features and definitely had […]
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So I’ve become extremely fond of my iPad. I think it’s the future form factor for ‘sofa surfing’ (that’s web surfing from your sofa while watching TV). I just checked into my hotel here in Bellevue for the Microsoft Hosting Summit and wanted to get my iPad online. The problem only wired internet was included
Turning Windows 7 into a Wi-FI Access Point (for free!) Read More »
I’m currently in seat 10a on my flight to San Francisco abroad virgin America and am 38228ft above Austin traveling at 430mph and thought what a great time blog. Well first let me say this is the greatest flight experience ever! We arrived at8 am for our flight only to see the lines at southwest
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Microsoft has loosened the usage rights (SPUR) around Windows Web Server 2008 R2. This is the low cost server license available from Microsoft. In the past you were limited on what could run on this server to only include web servers (HTTP) no database servers, no DNS services, nothing. This meant you needed to opt
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I have a new Dell M4400 laptop that I just got up and running with Windows 7 and thought “WOW! It would be great to boot this thing as Hyper-V server and just run the demos on there … but I have everything installed already!” What to do? The solution turns out to be incredibly
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Earlier today, ScottGu (pictured to the right of me and no I’m not about to spit on him!) announced the WebsiteSpark program. WebsiteSpark is a new program by Microsoft to help independent web developers and designers build on the Microsoft Web platform. Applied Innovations was selected as one of the first hosters involved in
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3 Blog posts to say “Hey I’m running on my site load balanced using ARR”. This is the third and hopefully last blog post for tonight. I posted two other posts tonight: Discusses the first stage of Applied Innovations Cloud Initiative. Discusses ARR & Load balancing. All of this was to explain how I’m running
JessCoburn.Com running on ARR! and that not be Pirate speak thar Matey! Read More »
I broke this post up into a series of posts. The first post (just published) gives an overview of ARR in IIS7 and why it’s cool. This post is going to talk about the first stage of cloud computing we’ve deployed at Applied Innovations and the benefit’s of it such that you could use it
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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 »