Jess Coburn, Author at Best Managed Cloud, IT and Cyber-security in Florida

How our IPS Protects our Customers

When we hire a new cloud hosting support engineer the first thing I like to let them know is that their job is exciting as they’ll be involved in cutting edge technologies. It’s a challenging job as every day they’ll be faced with a new issue they probably haven’t handled before and also a rewarding…

The Easy DNN Site Migrator–DotNetNuke Hosting Migrations Made Easy!

Let’s face it, switching hosting providers sucks! There’s no better way to explain it, it’s a royal pain and when you add an advanced web application like DotNetNuke into the mix it goes from hard to nearly impossible …. until now! In the past when switching DNN hosting providers it would go something like this:…

Microsoft Windows Cloud Servers and Microsoft WebMatrix

Combine Wordpress, WebMatrix and Microsoft Windows Cloud Servers to make web development easier, faster and more efficient and spend more time building web applications and less time managing web servers!

3, 2, 1, Blast off! : Windows Server 2012 Beta Servers Launched!

Today we officially announced Windows Server 2012 Beta Cloud Servers, but I wanted to provide a little more information around that offering. For several years now Applied Innovations has worked closely with Microsoft around the Windows Server platform. As a cloud services / hosting provider that delivers solutions solely on the Windows Server platform, it…

10,000 Customers and growing!

When you’re the company that powers someone’s Windows Cloud Servers, well they want to know a little more about the company they’re working with. I’m pretty open about Applied Innovations so I have no problem answering the questions that come up from new clients when I get asked. In fact, one of the most common…

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…

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…

What’s all this SOPA GoDaddy mess about anyway?

I’m sure by now you’ve heard about how the Internet community is in an uproar and ‘revolting’ against GoDaddy, the largest domain registrar on the Internet because they initially came out in favor of the SOPA legislation, only to retract that support because of the stance of the Internet community (you can read about this…

What to expect in 2012 from Applied Innovations

As we wrap up this year we’re looking forward to 2012 and planning for what’s next and I thought this would be a great time to give you a glimpse into what we have in store for next year and how 2011 relates. Earlier this year we launched a preview beta of our next next…

Making Migration to the cloud effortless

One of the services we’ve really prided ourselves on over the years has been our managed dedicated server offerings. We’ve deployed over a thousand dedicated servers in production over the past few years and many of our clients have been running without an issue on the same hardware for years. But over time hardware starts…