Appliedi.net Windows Web Hosting Blog

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 [...]

One of the services we’ve really prided ourselves on over the years has been our managed dedicated server offerings. We’ve deployed over a thousand dedicated servers in production over the past few years and many of our clients have been running without an issue on the same hardware for years. But over time hardware starts [...]

I frequently get asked “Why’d you name your company Applied Innovations?”  Well there’s a couple reasons for that: I wanted to be first in alphabetical indices so I wanted a company name that started with an A (yes, it’s an old yellow pages trick) I wanted something somewhat generic that if I decided to switch [...]

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit San Mateo, California and meet with our friends at DotNetNuke’s corporate headquarters.  While out there I interviewed Joe Brinkman and Will Strohl on a variety of subjects including: Joe’s take on the history of DotNetNuke and the decision to form DotNetNuke Corp.  DotNetNuke 6 and what [...]

For the past three years we’ve been neck deep in delivering Hyper-V Cloud servers to our customers.  Since that time we’ve executed on a number of firsts and achievements in the hosting industry and we’re not stopping there. Our Hyper-V Cloud achievements Became one of the first two hosting companies in the world to deliver [...]

At MIX’11 in Las Vegas we officially took the covers off our new elastic cloud hosting offering and started providing our first sneak peek.  For over a year now, our team has been working to build a self healing, dynamically scalable, shared hosting platform that would continue to deliver on performance, speed and security.  In [...]

  Last month I attended MIX 11 in Las Vegas.  MIX is a Microsoft event that is promoted as a casual conversation of developers, designers and business professionals. This event is 100% web application related and covers everything from development to design and rich media.  The great news is if you didn’t attend, almost the [...]

  We’re getting ready to launch the beta of the new awesome.net windows cloud hosting platform. I was showing the new awesome.net site to Will Strohl (DotNetNuke guru and all around good guy) and he said “Jess, make sure you get facebook on there and you integrate it with the open graph api so you [...]

In the highly competitive (and dare I say commoditized) web hosting industry if you speak to any hosting company and ask them what makes them different from their competitors I guarantee you’ll get the same response:  Customer Service, it’s our people, it’s how we treat you, it’s that we’re you’re business partner, we’re there for [...]