Appliedi.net Windows Web Hosting Blog

Earlier today Scott Guthrie (ScottGu), Corporate VP of Microsoft Developer Division, announced WebsiteSpark and I’m pleased to announce Applied Innovations is offering WebsiteSpark hosting as a hosting partner and network partner.  If your company’s primary business is Web development or Web design you can signup immediately from our website.

Visibility, support and software for professional Web Developers and Designers – at no upfront cost!

WebsiteSpark is a new program designed by Microsoft to ‘Spark’ the development and growth of independent web development and web design firms that build applications and websites for other companies.  WebsiteSpark provides eligible companies THREE YEARS of no cost software licenses. Once a company is enrolled in the program they’ll receive:

Free Software Licenses for Developers

• 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
• 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Expression Blend, Sketchflow, and Web)
• 2 licenses of Expression Web 3
• 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 R2
• 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition
• DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of your servers)

Free Support, Training and Assistance

• Two technical support incidents per program membership
• Training events and activities
• Unlimited access to technical manage newsgroups on MSDN
• Unlimited program support for non-technical issues
• Access to broad community support though connections with Network Partners, Hosting Partners, and peers with complementary services and technologies

Free Marketing Assistance and Lead Generation

• They’ll also receive unique lead generation opportunities and listing in the WebsiteSpark marketplace.

Exclusive Hosting Discounts and Promotional Pricing

• As part of the WebsiteSpark program, companies will receive exclusive WebsiteSpark  discounts on Windows Web Hosting services from Applied Innovations.

Empowering innovation on Microsoft’s most powerful Web Platform to date.

Applied Innovations is pleased to be one of the first web hosting companies invited to be a member of the WebsiteSpark program and excited to be able to deliver even more value and innovation to our core customer base: web developers and web designers.

We believe combining our web hosting service with the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program will provide you the best value and most reliable, experienced and innovative hosting available today.  If you want to learn more about WebsiteSpark, please feel free to contact sales@appliedi.net. If you’re ready to signup for WebsiteSpark now, visit the WebsiteSpark portal and during signup be certain to select Applied Innovations as your hosting/network partner.

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Bad news: There’s a Zero Day Attack on Microsoft’s IIS FTP Server

There’s a new vulnerability exposed in Microsoft’s IIS FTP server where it contains a stack buffer overflow in the handling of directory names which could allow a remote attack to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable server.  Now before you go off thinking “great, Microsoft isn’t secure” that’s not that case at all. This type of vulnerability is very common and happens in all kinds of applications.   What’s uncommon about this attack and what makes it ‘zero day’ is that it was just announced as a vulnerability and Microsoft hasn’t had an opportunity to patch against it yet.

You can learn more about this vulnerability at the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team’s site: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/276653

Good news: You’re Zero Day PROTECTED already!

We have installed on our network what we believe to be the best network security devices available on the market today and they’re already doing there job!  On our network is something called an Intrusion Protection Server or IPS.  The IPS is like a firewall that works to block application attacks and vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows, SQL injection, etc.   The IPS vendor we use has a strong relationship with Microsoft and as such had this vulnerability protected ZERO DAY.   Had we not had this device in place the only way to effectively protect against this attack would have been to disable FTP writes and that would have been disastrous!

This is an example of what separates a good hosting provider for every other hosting provider out there.  We know you selected us as your hosting provider because you want us to do the hosting and handle headaches like this for you so you could concentrate on your business and building value for your customers.   You didn’t know there was a vulnerability and now because we’re doing what you’ve asked us to do, you don’t care there’s a vulnerability because you’re protected already.

Thanks for selecting Applied Innovations as your Windows Hosting Provider.

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