WordPress Permalink Issues in IIS, Working Around Mod_ReWrite with an ISAPI Filter
UPDATE: 10-07-08 :: I just received a comment from Bill Staples, a Microsoft Employee, who informs me that IIS7 indeed does support a URL rewrite, especially for WordPress. Please see comments section below for URL. Thanks Bill for setting the record straight. Perhaps now would be a good time for me to put the scotch [...]
Server Virtualization for Web Hosts - The Basics
A few comments to start the post:
Virtualization is here to stay, end of discussion
Web server virtualization is just as efficient as physical hosting
Microsoft’s Virtual PC Virtualization is WORTHLESS. End of discussion (The Server 2008 edition rocks, more on that in another post!)
VMware is the industry leader, but there are a lot of other platforms on [...]
Tools of the Web Hosting Trade
The following is a list of tools that most webmasters and web hosts alike utilize on a consistent basis to keep things flowing. When data flows, profits flow too.
Keep in mind that a lot of the descriptions are from the vendor’s page.
The vendor is responsible for the accuracy of the description. I [...]
Types of Web Servers
There are typically 2 operating systems that web sites are hosted on: Windows or Linux.
Windows IIS (Internet Information Services) is the typical platform for Active Server Pages, or ASP pages. You’ll see a wide variety of file extensions hosted on IIS servers: .ASP, .ASPX, .HTM, .HTML, .PHP, etc.
Linux with Apache is the typical platform [...]
What is Web Hosting?
What is Web Hosting? Web hosting: storing files on a webserver for the purpose of displaying those files to authorized users. Simply put, you rent space on someone’s server, copy your web pages to the server, and tell the server to display those pages whenever anyone asks for www.YourDomain.com
Hosting a website is almost [...]