Appliedi.net Windows Web Hosting Blog

Today we officially announced Windows Server 2012 Beta Cloud Servers, but I wanted to provide a little more information around that offering. For several years now Applied Innovations has worked closely with Microsoft around the Windows Server platform.  As a cloud services / hosting provider that delivers solutions solely on the Windows Server platform, it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The community has spoken! We asked you who we should support in 2011, and we listened. Here’s the 2011 Giving Innovations Corporate Responsibility Program Calendar. January – Habitat for Humanity February – American Heart Association March – Make a Wish Foundation April – amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research May – Boys & Girls Clubs [...]

For the past 6 months Applied Innovations has been working closely with our friends at Microsoft to help make the development, deployment and hosting of today’s advanced web applications like DotNetNuke, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal easy. Today (January 13th) we’re proud to announce that this has been accomplished thanks to WebMatrix and at 12:30PM EST [...]

Five Simple Things to Prepare Your Ecommerce Site for a Cyber Monday! If you have a seasonal ecommerce business, here are just a handful of things to prepare your website for Cyber Monday 1. Update all your product images Everyone knows a picture speaks a thousand words. But you are probably so familiar with your [...]

  We believe the need for help is greater than ever and believe charities are being hit the hardest by a difficult economy.  We also believe that as a company that continues to see great growth, we’re obligated to help and thus we do.  Over the past few years we’ve been informally making charitable contributions [...]

As  a company that has focused exclusively on Windows hosting since 1999, we’re quick to support the Windows Hosting ecosystem.  I’m pleased to announce that Applied Innovations is powering the official demo portal for the open-source control panel project WebsitePanel on our Windows Cloud Servers platform. You can experience WebsitePanel first hand before downloading and [...]

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