Appliedi.net Windows Web Hosting Blog

  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 [...]

Believe it or not I still find myself building websites after all these years.  It’s something I enjoy to do and when most people are out playing golf, I find myself playing with some new piece of software. Generally, I use a content management system (CMS) like DotNetNuke or WordPress to build a website today.  [...]

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, [...]

Disclaimer: The items mentioned in the following blog article involve making changes to your server’s registry. Incorrectly modifying your server’s registry can result in downtime or abnormal behavior causing unforeseen consequences. If you do not have much experience working with the registry or if you are not comfortable making these changes it is highly recommended [...]

This error occurs when the App_Themes folder is missing from your “wwwroot” directory (or Virtual Directory / Application) and prevents you from logging into your Admin Area. It can be caused by creating a new application under your ASPDNSF root folder, or by turning the “admin” folder into an application. Here’s the partial error message [...]

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 [...]

In Internet Explorer 8 the way HTML data is interpreted and displayed is changed significantly compared to earlier versions. These changes, made to be more standards compliant may result in your current pages not being displayed correctly if they were not designed with these same standards in mind. This could result in overlapping text or [...]

Are you interested in trying the Kentico Lite CMS? Much like other applications we’ve recently introduced, Kentico is now as easy to install through the control panel as a few clicks. Kentico Lite has many features bundled with it right out of the box. See the following Knowledge Base article for instructions on installing Kentico Lite and begin [...]

Community Server 2008 Express is now available for FREE to Appliedi Innovation’s web hosting customers in a few easy clicks from the control panel. Community Server 2008 is a premium content management system (CMS) and Social Networking application from Telligent, the people who made the application that powers myspace, Microsoft’s xbox website and other major sites. Some of the major built-in features include blogs & forums (with integrated [...]

Today Joomla released an update to their CMS called “Naiki” and our PHP webhosting customers using this CMS may want to install the update. If you are running a previous version 1.5.x, you should download the update patch and run it. You can read the release notes and installation instructions here. Although Applied Innovations is an ASP.net specialized [...]