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MaximumASP Delivers Double Computing Power On Virtual Dedicated Hosting Plan

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:53:28 GMT

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.

MaxV Virtual Dedicated Plans are hosted on either WS 2008 or 2003 Operating Systems with 32- and 64-Bit Editions. MaxV supports SQL Server 2008 and 2005, or high-performance Shared SQL servers are also available. High Availability, Intelligent Monitoring, Recurrent Backups and Scalability are all included on the MaxV platform.

Wade Lewis, Managing Partner of MaximumASP said, “As the need to reduce costs, simplify management, and establish sustainable computing practices continues to grow, we will continue to provide only the best growth path options for our customers.”

The MaxV dynamic IT infrastructure will support virtualization strategies across sever workloads, desktop applications, and both physical and virtual assets.The light overhead, efficient design, overall completeness and proven performance of MaxV also make it the right virtualization choice for server consolidation, disaster recovery and production servers with live applications and data.

Dominic Foster, CTO of MaximumASP said, “MaximumASP is built around a simple guiding principle: investing the resources and time to do hosting and IT services well so our customers have the time to do what they do well. In the case of MaxV developers can tap into our resources to maximize their coding efficiency and reduce the cost of development by building on existing, extensible components without having to build anything from scratch.”

Customers can take advantage of MaxV today by visiting www.maximumasp.com/maxv

About MaximumASP

MaximumASP based in Louisville, Kentucky. was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Microsoft Windows based hosting and IT services. The company currently hosts more than 48,000 domains for customers in over 60 countries. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for Microsoft developers seeking a robust hosting platform for mission-critical web applications. For more information visit www.maximumasp.com

ASP.NET With Visual Web Developer Video Series (First 6 On-Line)

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:07:27 GMT

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/

The Windows Web App Gallery

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:25:49 GMT

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 be live to download in the Web App Gallery by Windows users!

Were is a a quick FAQ based on common questions:

Q. How do I learn more about the Web Application Gallery?
A. Check out the Gallery itself! Or you can read more in this Introducing the Web Application Gallery whitepaper.
Q. If my app goes into the Web Application Gallery, do Web Platform Installer users also get access to it?
A. Yes, if you application is accepted in the Web Application Gallery, it gets added to an ATOM feed that is consumed by Web Platform Installer as well as participating hoster control panels that integrate with the feed. You can learn more in the Introducing the Web Platform Installer whitepaper.
Q. Can I host my project on CodePlex?
A. Yes, our other ASP.NET Gallery partners host on CodePlex today.
Q. Do I have to host my project on CodePlex?
A. No. According to our Principles, you should have a public URL for the latest stable release that is supported with best effort free customer support in forums.
Q. How long will it take to put together a Web App Gallery-enabled package?
A. We have had partners put together the Web Deployment Tool manifests in a weekend (evenings).

If you have any questions, you can post to the Web App Gallery forum.

New Web Site Monitoring Service.

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:40:50 GMT

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 that you can hit the right chord at the right time and fix them before it costs you money, customers or reputation. "
In addition, we keep detailed statistics about your website’s availability and response time so that you can have overall picture of your website availability and downtime. Read more about How it Works or Sign Up for a free service.

After several weeks I continue to be impressed.

Read [ HERE ] to see is it might be useful to you.

Migrating your Web Applications from IIS 6 to IIS 7

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:04:12 GMT

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

SQL Data Services - SQL Server in the Cloud !

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:00:28 GMT

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

Introducing .NET Shout Out

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:47:20 GMT

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!

IIS Application Request Routing (ARR)

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:01:15 GMT

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

Creating, Updating, and Publishing Web applications with Visual Web Developerd Shared Hosting

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:55:04 GMT

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. ]

New, What's NEW RSS feed on www.asp.net !

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:52:21 GMT

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