Appliedi.net Windows Web Hosting Blog

  Did you hear? We launched Awesome.Net, our newest brand at DotNetNuke World in November. Awesome.Net is an elastic, shared cloud hosting offering that provides customers with dynamic load balancing so sites automatically scale across multiple webservers as needed.  Built on top of Applied Innovations Hyper-V Cloud, the platform allows clients to scale from 1 [...]

  Refresh your marketing efforts for 2012 by running down this Back-to-Basics checklist of things every marketing program should consider. Slogan, Tagline and/or Value Statement. Got one?  Great. Got all three?  Better. Refresh your Company Description. If you don’t have one already, you should prepare several versions of different lengths to be used in different [...]

Coined in 2005 by Shop.org, the National Retail Federation’s online division, Cyber Monday – the Monday after Thanksgiving – has become a ubiquitous mass market phenomenon. 1. Chase’s Cyber Holiday Pulse Index reports Cyber Monday is widely considered the unofficial kickoff of the online shopping season. However, trends indicate shoppers start ramping up their purchasing [...]

  For more than a decade, BV Software has been building and selling commercial .NET shopping cart software. Now, they’re releasing an open-source project – MerchantTribe – based on the award winning BV Commerce software. Applied Innovations met with Marcus McConnell, founder and president of BV Software, to talk about this exciting new launch. Applied [...]

I’m sure by now you’ve heard about how the Internet community is in an uproar and ‘revolting’ against GoDaddy, the largest domain registrar on the Internet because they initially came out in favor of the SOPA legislation, only to retract that support because of the stance of the Internet community (you can read about this [...]

As we wrap up this year we’re looking forward to 2012 and planning for what’s next and I thought this would be a great time to give you a glimpse into what we have in store for next year and how 2011 relates. Earlier this year we launched a preview beta of our next next [...]

DotNetNuke World is the annual user conference specifically designed for developers, web designers, administrators, business decision makers, and end users on the DotNetNuke Platform. This year the conference will be held in Orlando, Florida on November 9 through 11 at the Hilton Orlando Resort. Applied Innovations is a Platinum Sponsor of DotNetNuke World this year, [...]

DotNetNuke, Kentico, Joomla and WordPress are four of the most popular CMS (Content Management System) Applications used by the customers of Applied Innovations. We even offer One-Click Installers right on our Control Panel for all of them. We’ve invested extensive time and research optimizing our hosting platforms to support these apps, too – one of [...]

You’ve heard about the Cloud and you have an idea what it means.  But do you really? Platform as a Service. Desktop Virtualization. Application Service Providers. Virtual Private Servers. Grid Computing. Software as a Service. Utility Computing. Remote Backup Services. Infrastructure as a Service. Yes, all these terms are related to the cloud or even [...]

A VERY Brief History of PCI Short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, PCI is a set of requirements designed to guarantee that all companies who handle customer credit card information maintain a secure environment. So if you have a Merchant ID (MID) and accept credit cards as a form of payment, this applies [...]