Archive for 2012
Basic Tips for a Secure Cloud Hosting
Moving to the cloud. It seems like everyone’s doing it. So it must be safe and secure, right? With any type of server, security should be a priority and when moving to the cloud there are a few things to note to make sure you’re as secure as possible. Choosing Cloud Products Virtualization software. By…
Read MoreWebMatrix: 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…
Read MorePassword Security 101
We understand that most of our clients are business-oriented and not security-focused, and so many don’t realize the true implications of a password compromise. For example, a client recently asked us to reset a password for one of their user’s email accounts and provided us with a very weak password to use (in fact, the…
Read More10 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…
Read MoreSpotlight on DotNetNuke: The Adaptive Web Content Management System for the Agile Business
DotNetNuke invites developers to “Go Live Faster” with the leading open source web content management platform in the Microsoft ecosystem. Applied Innovations was an early partner with DotNetNuke, having hosted the application since its inception as the IBuySpy portal starter kit back in 2002 with the first release of ASP.NET 1.0. Since then, Applied…
Read MoreYour First Month Windows Cloud Server Hosting for Just $29.95!
Get a new Windows Cloud Server for just $29.95 for the first month, plus $40 per month instant rebate* for the next three months. Appliedi offers WebMatrix – featuring great apps, powerful tools and kick-a&# pricing – everything you need to build websites FAST on Windows. WebMatrix is designed to help you create, deploy and…
Read MoreSurf the Surge! Maximizing a Promotional Event
Planning a promotion that will drive a surge of traffic to your website? Prepare well and surf the surge for maximum results! What Kind of Promotional Events Are We Talking About? Is your product going to be featured on The Morning Show or even a local Talk Radio show? Are you being interviewed for a…
Read MoreLove at First Site
7 Tactics for Building and Maintaining a Website Your Visitors Will Love Do you believe in “love at first site”? Are you enjoying a “long term engagement”? All Valentine’s metaphorical humor aside, customer engagement and repeat site traffic are serious business for any online-based enterprise. What promotes loyalty, earns you the adoration of your customers,…
Read MoreAwesome.Net Cloud Hosting Has Officially Launched!
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…
Read MoreA Back-to-Basics Marketing Checklist
Refresh your marketing efforts for 2012 by running down this Back-to-Basics checklist of things every marketing program should consider. Slogan, Tagline and/or Value Statement. Got one? Great. Got all three? Better. Refresh your Company Description. If you don’t have one already, you should prepare several versions of different lengths to be used in different…
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