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WebMatrix: What Developers Need To Know.

Like many hosting companies, Applied Innovations was started by some guy that made web pages and decided he could build the better mousetrap (or server as it may be). As much as I try to separate myself from development and design (I’m much better at hosting websites than designing them) I still love to do…

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10 Ways to Improve WordPress Performance on Windows

(Adopted from JessCoburn.com) Last year I attended the San Francisco WordCamp because I wanted to see what the Core WordPress team had to say about WordPress Hosting on Windows.   Sadly, it was my experience there that they’re still not very Windows friendly.  I personally believe it’s one of two reasons: There’s still this mentality that…

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Comparing CMS Applications: DotNetNuke, Joomla, Kentico and WordPress

DotNetNuke, Kentico, Joomla and WordPress are four of the most popular CMS (Content Management System) Applications used by the customers of Applied Innovations. We even offer One-Click Installers right on our Control Panel for all of them. We’ve invested extensive time and research optimizing our hosting platforms to support these apps, too – one of…

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WordPress 3.2 Makes it Even Easier to Blog

For years people have been making WordPress the most popular blogging application in the world. And in one bloggershumble opinion this is rightfully so. But don’t take my word for it. The latest release, 3.2 (code name Gershwin), has already eclipsed 3 million downloads. And it was only released on July 4th. The newest update…

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Awesome Elastic Cloud Hosting – now in beta!

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…

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5 Benefits of a WordPress Blog

Since its launch in 2003, WordPress has evolved into one of the most popular blogging platforms available, claiming over 25 million users. As an open source project, it’s not only free to use but it has a community of thousands of contributors all over the world creating themes, plug-ins and widgets, as well as offering…

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Changing your WordPress Theme

One of greatest features of wordpress is its ability to change the look of your blog in an instant. In wordpress the look of the blog is called its theme. Changing your blog theme is as easy as downloading a FREE theme from the wordpress theme directory http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ , uploading it to your server and…

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Installing WordPress Plugins to extend and enhance your blog

In our earlier videos in this series we’ve covered the follow topics. Install WordPress with just one click via the control panel. How to configure the basic settings for wordpress, including Search Engine Friendly URLS. How to upgrade WordPress to the latest version manually How to automatically upgrade WordPress if you’re running 2.6 or later.…

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Changing your theme in WordPress

In our earlier WordPress tutorials we covered how to: Install WordPress with just one click via the control panel. How to configure the basic settings for wordpress, including Search Engine Friendly URLS. How to upgrade WordPress to the latest version manually How to automatically upgrade WordPress if you’re running 2.6 or later. In this video…

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Updating WordPress Automatically

In a recent blog post I discussed how to upgrade WordPress to version 2.7 which was a manual process. Recently WordPress updated to Version 2.7.1 (which means we need to upgrade .. AGAIN).  But there’s good news.. WordPress Automatic Upgrade Has ARRIVED When you first log into your WordPress dashboard you’ll see a link at…

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