For security, performance and ease of use, Mozy Data Backup is the solution we have settled on as an additional layer of file protection and redundancy for all of our hosted sites. The feature set is very compelling, and all data is securely stored in world class facilities.

An article caught our eye earlier this week regarding datacenters and network infrastructures and all of that - not so much for the technical aspects of it all, but rather, how it plays out for our clients and the sites we host for them. For example, we didn't know until this week that we have more bandwidth available for our client sites than 94.4% of all hosting companies. Know what else? As a Tier 3 facility, the uptime percentage is 99.982% - that means that annual downtime is somewhere around 1.6 hours.

Does this mean that Microsoft "gets it"?

They have been winning many of us back, and here's yet another reason to take another look.

We host a majority of our client sites via racks of dedicated servers at MaximumAsp, a top tier hosting facility. MaximumAsp is truly one of the better ISP facilities on the planet. They offer the security and infrastructure expertise, and we add the hosting and DotNetNuke expertise.

But we don't stop there.

What we also include (that others hosts don't without additional cost) is timely testing and updating of the DotNetNuke core as updates are available, as well as testing and updating of custom modules.

It's a win-win for both of us when we keep sites to the current stable version of DotNetNuke. They are more stable and responsive, but also easier to manage and maintain.

We are proud to announce installation and support for AspDotNetStorefront, one of the leading e-Commerce platforms available. In use on over 10,000 sites, including McDonald's, Crocs.com, Glorea Jeans, Comfort First, Land Rover, Virgin Mobile, Kodak, and thousands of others.

The feature set is simply too numerous to list.

Quite simply, if you want a new way to do e-Commerce, then let us help you. You owe it to your bottom line.

 

We've just returned from OpenForce 2007 in Las Vegas - the largest conference on the planet for Microsoft developers, and the first conference in the US dedicated to DotNetNuke.

It was of course a great conference, and the DotNetNuke horizon looks very bright. If the majority of milestones are met for 2008, then it should be a watershed year. Among the new features that will be implemented in the coming year:

Social Networking - Social Networking API; DotNetNuke feeds external widgets (Vista, Google, Mac); Third-party widgets hosted in DotNetNuke; Easily create mash-ups in DotNetNuke Workflow - Simple and advanced scenarios; Approval Chains; Inter-portal workflows; Content versioning Core Module Suites - CMS SuiteBasic, CMS modules for content management and presentation; Social Networking Suite, Contemporary modules with collaborative and social networking features ...

Microsoft recently rolled out a host of enhancements to its Silverlight line of cross-browser, cross-platform plug-ins that takes .Net to new places.