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Applied Innovations Mentioned in eWeek
Apr 27th
eWeek has an article talking about Beta 3 of Longhorn and it mentions the current IIS7 Beta hosts:
- MaximumASP
- DiscountASP
- Applied Innovations
- Hostmysite
- Web Fusion
and mentions the following hosts are due to release their offering soon:
- CrystalTech
- Mosso
- Affinity
You can read the article here:
PHP on Windows and what’s happening
Apr 26th
I blogged earlier about the great work the Microsoft Team was doing with the Zend team to get PHP running better on Windows. I can definitely say it’s made a difference. Some of our clients run really large PHP sites or bulletin boards (in fact this blog is running on PHP 5.2.1 on Windows). In today’s Zend newsletter they mentioned an article in Redmond Developer News: Zend Boosts PHP on Windows.
My favorite quote from the article is:
“[A] lot of PHP development happens on Windows,” says Mark de Visser, Zend’s chief marketing officer. “However, most deployment happens on Linux. Why? Because PHP just doesn’t run very well on Windows. That was something that Microsoft didn’t like and that we saw as a problem. So, we got together with the aim of making sure that PHP had equal performance on Windows as it has on Linux and Unix.”
Followed by:
Zend is claiming improved Windows performance of between 200 percent and 300 percent overall with Zend Core 2.0.
These improvements were ofcourse returned to community in the release of PHP 5.2.1 which is running on all of our php ready windows shared hosting servers.
Great News for those looking to run their own IIS7 / Longhorn Server
Apr 26th
We’ve had the pleasure of really digging in Longhorn and IIS7 for a few months now but yesterday Microsoft made the first public beta release of Longhorn available. This new beta also includes the latest builds of IIS7 and a plethora of new information was released along with this.
You can learn more about what’s new in this release of IIS7 on www.iis.net. Bill Staples blog has a great write-up on just what all has changed with IIS7 in this release.
The IIS team has the golive program and details available at: http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=7&subtabid=79
In addition, if you just want to see what your application will look like in a beta shared IIS7 hosting environment then head over to our IIS7 beta page and check it out. We’ve been deploying ruby-on-rails on IIS7, FastCGI and PHP on IIS7 and really trying to see just what she can do. Yes, we’re committed to providing the tools developers demand and PHP (and soon FastCGI) on the Windows platform are two tools they’ll be demanding more and more. We’re already seeing a strong adoption of PHP/MySQL applications on shared hosting be is CMS applications, E-Commerce applications, Forums and Bulletin Boards or custom applications, PHP on Windows is going to become a very common shared hosting environment and we’re offering it, TODAY!
IIS7 is without question going to revolutionize not only Windows Hosting and shared hosting as a whole but is going to bring a new level of control and configurability to developers. To get developers up to speed immediately the IIS team has made available an IIS7 developers resource center off of the IIS.net website. In the past few weeks there’s been a large number of new articles and webcasts posted as well. IIS.NET is definitely a site worth bookmarking.
2D/3D mapping from Microsoft Live Maps
Mar 29th
I can remember back when Yahoo! Maps launched, how amazing this was. Then there was TerraServer with satellite pics of the work, followed by google earth. But this is just too cool. Microsoft has taken their maps and 2D images and made 3D images of them. They recently added Miami (right around the Superbowl).
Here’s some pics of the Nap of the Americas. Applied Innovations hosts our servers in the NAP because quite honestly it was built from the ground up to withstand any disaster and remain operational. Today the NAP is not only home to our company but also the US Military Southern Command. For a little more on the NAP you can see (http://www.appliedi.net/network).
Now to the pictures (remember you can click on these to see the full size image)
Your standard 2D pictures
Your elevated 2D picture (those big balls on the roof are actually satellite dishes for the Government)
Your Microsoft Live 3D image (too cool!)
If you’re wondering what’s so cool about this 3D image, open this link in Internet Explorer and start zooming around.
Free Blogs courtesy of webmastersdepot.com
Mar 23rd
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So the guys at webmastersdepot have now started offering free blog hosting! Say what? a webhost recommending someone else’s free hosting? Well, we believe it’s a good thing. Why? you’ll get a taste of wordpress and before long you’ll want to move to a full hosting account. Webmastersdepot.com will get affiliate credits for referring you and we’ll gain you as a hosting customer. It’s a win-win.
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