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I host several sites (including this blog) at MaximumASP and have migrated to MaxV - and it ROCKS !!!! Full review coming soon, but becuase I'm having such a great experience with the Hyper-V based hosting I wanted to let you know about it. There is nothing like RDP access to your web server !!!!!! MaxV Plan B upgrade now available for free 30 day trial offer LOUISVILLE, Ky.(January 23, 2009) -- MaximumASP, a Microsoft Gold Certified Provider of web hosting and IT services, today announced that it will provide free 30 day introductory accounts on their MaxV platform featuring Windows Server 2008® Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. The introductory offers include a choice of either a MaxV Plan A or Plan B Virtual Dedicated Hosting Plan....

I've started updating the 2005 "Getting Started" videos. I've got many more in the works but the first 6 are live now at this URL http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/ Read More...

We launched the Windows Web Application Gallery at MIX on 3/18 with 10 open source and community applications, including DotNetNuke, DasBlog, Umbraco and Subtext. We are now experiencing thousands of application downloads per week! Are you working on a community/open source application ? Why don't you join the Web App Gallery? To get started: 1. Review the Web App Gallery Principles to get a sense of how we keep a common baseline for user experience. 2. Create manifest files to add to your ZIP package at using the Application Packaging Guide . 3. Submit your application. (You’ll have to log in with a LiveID first.) We’ll then check out your submission to see if it follows the Web App Gallery Principles . Once it does, your application will...

When one of our sites is down, it's a "all hands on deck" scramble. I use several monitoring mechanisms to let me know if there are problems on one of the sites I work on. I recently added a service from APLUS Monitoring. Their services start at FREE !!! - and go up to $20.95 per month. Are customizable, send email alerts (there is an SMS option) and have good reporting. Here's how they describe their services. APlusMonitoring is a solution for your whole company. We monitor your website, server availability and performance externally from our worldwide network of monitoring locations, 24/7 and every day of the year. When your website or network fails to respond, we notify you instantly via Email, SMS/Text Messaging, RSS so...

Did you know there is an easy(er) way ??? This article [ HERE ] explains how to use the Web Deployment Tool [ Get it HERE ] to migrate your web applications from IIS 6 / Windows Server 2003 to IIS 7 / Windows Server 2008 Read More...

REALLY distributed architectures are playing a bigger and bigger role in application development these days and Azure is an exciting bit of "Cloud" based technology. Check out ..... SQL Data Services Microsoft® SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable and Internet-facing distributed database services in the cloud for storing and processing relational queries. SDS can help you develop and provision new applications quickly with REST and SOAP based web protocols. The services are built on robust SQL Server database and Windows Server technologies, providing high availability and security. Get Started Visit the Dev Center Try the SDS Public CTP Read More...

Kazi Manzur Rashid has recently launched a new Community Site for .NET developers http://dotnetshoutout.com It's a categorized, hand picked index of .NET info, which is cool enough, but there is a really interesting aspect. 1.) It's an ASP.NET MVC application 2.) It's based on an Open Source CodePlex.com project KiGG ( http://codplex.com/KiGG ). KiGG was the first starter kit for ASP.NET MVC. Check it out! Read More...

I've been spending a good deal of time focusing on performance issues lately. When your web properties count annual page views in the BILLIONS, it's inevitable. IIS 7 has great, often overlooked, granularity feature to help you hone performance and the IIS team continues to deliver in the performance space. Check out APR ! Application Request Routing (ARR) enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based routing and load balancing of HTTP server requests. With ARR, administrators can optimize resource utilization for application servers to reduce management costs for Web farms and shared hosting environments. http://www.iis.net/extensions/ApplicationRequestRouting...

The first video in a series that I'm doing for the IIS / Hosting team on developing in a Shared Hosting Environment is now available. [ Click HERE to watch. ] Read More...

Now one feed for all the new Articles, News Items, and Microsoft Blog Posts from www.asp.net ! http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-whatsnew/rss.aspx Read More...