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 [...]

  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 [...]

Congratulations.  Your site traffic is up. You have worked hard to get this traffic using an array of paid search, social media, directory listings and online marketing programs.  You’ve optimized your site for search engines by applying all the industry best practices and white hat optimization techniques. But you’re not seeing the pay off… what’s [...]

Wondering which eCommerce application is right for you? Take a look at this handy matrix comparing 5 of the most popular shopping carts.  We have included ASPdotNETStoreFront (ASPDNSF), BVCommerce, nopCommerce, osCommerce, and Zen Cart. While this feature list is by no means comprehensive, it does provide a good sense of how these apps measure up.  [...]

Let Applied Innovations provide you with a FREE CUSTOMIZED website performance evaluation.  We’ll take a look at your hosting plan’s specifications, your traffic and memory usage, and run a variety of performance monitors. From this, we’ll identify problems you may not even be aware of, and make suggestions for improvements to optimize the performance of [...]

Have you read any of the industry scuttle about Google Panda? What is Panda, exactly, anyway? Google Panda is a significant update to the Google search algorithm that was launched late last month. While Google is constantly adjusting its ranking algorithms, most changes are not immediately or broadly evident. With Panda, however, we have a [...]

Applied Innovations has launched a new backup service offering through a partnership with R1Soft. R1Soft Continuous Data Protection 3.0 Enterprise Edition is a high-performance, disk-to-disk server backup software for Windows servers. CDP will be used as the default backup solution for all Shared web hosting accounts, and available as a premium add-on for VPS and [...]

This year I did ALL my Christmas shopping online. Every single gift for every single person was shipped to my front door like Santa himself had dropped them off. I didn’t have to wait in lines. I didn’t have to fight over the last Xbox Kinect. I didn’t have to deal with cashiers who were [...]

After 16 years of doing business with my bank, I decided to make a switch. I went through the effort of updating all my auto-payments, submitting a new direct deposit form, having to order new checks, etc. because my bank’s customer service was honestly THAT bad. Between rude representatives on the phone, unhelpful in-person bankers, [...]

The Indianapolis GiveCamp will be held this weekend at MID, 9800 Association Ct., Indianapolis, Indiana 46280.  Indy GiveCamp is a weekend-long collaboration between local developers, designers, database administrators, and non-profits. It is an opportunity for the technical community to celebrate and express gratitude for the contributions of these organizations by contributing code and technical know-how [...]