Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a provider of Windows-based hosting and managed IT services, MaximumASP, will soon release a new shared windows hosting platform.

According to the company, MaxESP will be the first highly available completely PCI compliant (web + data) Microsoft ASP.NET shared web hosting platform. The MaxESP core focus is to cater to all aspects of the application life cycle. Customers can quickly upgrade the standard plan and make their application load balanced and more robust with 1 mouse click. Introductory accounts will be available in October free of charge for 30 days and just $49 a month after the trial period.

Besides the usual features of a hosting solution like email, SQL databases, SAN-supported storage, free backups, etc., the MaxESP elastic shared platform adds an SSL VPN service free of charge, PCI compliance at a shared price point, and on-demand application-aware load balancing and simultaneous application instances without forcing customers to rewrite their code.

As a leading Windows-based hosting provider, MaximumASP keeps up with the latest developments in Microsoft technologies while continually seeking customer feedback.

Matt Griffin, product manager at MaxESP explained, ”Windows Server 2008 R2, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and Application Request Routing, which is an IIS extension, offers tremendous benefits to both our company and our customers in our new shared hosting platform.”

MaxESP is a highly scalable, cost-effective hosting solution that makes it easier for customers to manage their applications. In a shared-hosting architecture, multiple customers use the same physical server. These environments have traditionally been difficult to manage as they grow to include thousands of customers and applications, the MaxESP solution makes it easier for MaximumASP to support a rapidly expanding customer base.

With both its current offerings and MaxESP, MaximumASP simplified the administration of shared hosting for its IT staff. Dominic Foster, CTO of MaximumASP added, ”With Application Request Routing on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, we’ve created a rock-solid platform that’s scalable to any level and takes care of all the headaches normally associated with shared hosting.”

John Zanni, general manager of the Worldwide Software plus Services Industry in the Microsoft Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp. offered, ”With Application Request Routing from Microsoft, hosting providers can offer elastic scalability, optimized resource utilization and reduced management costs to their customers in a simple process. MaximumASP, as our Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year, continues to innovate and demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies with its MaxESP platform.”

Additionally, MaximumASP takes advantage of the ability of ARR to manage multiple server farms and to manage and monitor all configuration settings through easy-to-use tools including IIS Remote Management.

Mr. Griffin added, ”ARR sits on top of a common, or shared, configuration system provided by IIS, which makes it very easy for us to develop custom modules or apply custom provisioning that plugs into the rest of our IT pipeline. We can use this to support billing, track customers, scale up or down, or add capacity for on-demand products that we want to roll out.”

MaximumASP can quickly provision highly available and scalable server farms and expand customers’ self-service options. Multiple layers of load balancing, enterprise SAN storage and redundant server farms will support high-performance requirements. The result will be better service for hosting customers and savings of up to U.S. $166,000 a year for MaximumASP in labor and hardware costs.

Mr. Foster continued, ”We are very excited about MaxESP as well as the IIS 7.5 architecture and anxious for more customer feedback on how it simplifies management of hosted sites and Web applications. MaximumASP continues to lead the hosting industry by giving our customers a competitive edge and enabling them to be first-to-market with new solutions.”

Created in IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 MaxESP has many exciting new features:

  • Easily create and control your applications in IIS 7.5 using IIS Remote Management
  • Highly available shared hosting with application aware load balancing
  • Need more power? No problem. Add instances of your application to seamlessly scale capacity
  • Decrease the number of nodes when not operating at peak times – or allocate to other website(s)
  • Customizable scalability right at your fingertips

MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Windows-based hosting services. MaximumASP was named by Microsoft as its 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year. The company currently hosts more than 50,000 domains for customers in over 120 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.

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a provider of Windows-based hosting and managed IT services, MaximumASP, will soon release a new shared windows hosting platform.

According to the company, MaxESP will be the first highly available completely PCI compliant (web + data) Microsoft ASP.NET shared web hosting platform. The MaxESP core focus is to cater to all aspects of the application life cycle. Customers can quickly upgrade the standard plan and make their application load balanced and more robust with 1 mouse click. Introductory accounts will be available in October free of charge for 30 days and just $49 a month after the trial period.

Besides the usual features of a hosting solution like email, SQL databases, SAN-supported storage, free backups, etc., the MaxESP elastic shared platform adds an SSL VPN service free of charge, PCI compliance at a shared price point, and on-demand application-aware load balancing and simultaneous application instances without forcing customers to rewrite their code.

As a leading Windows-based hosting provider, MaximumASP keeps up with the latest developments in Microsoft technologies while continually seeking customer feedback.

Matt Griffin, product manager at MaxESP explained, ”Windows Server 2008 R2, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and Application Request Routing, which is an IIS extension, offers tremendous benefits to both our company and our customers in our new shared hosting platform.”

MaxESP is a highly scalable, cost-effective hosting solution that makes it easier for customers to manage their applications. In a shared-hosting architecture, multiple customers use the same physical server. These environments have traditionally been difficult to manage as they grow to include thousands of customers and applications, the MaxESP solution makes it easier for MaximumASP to support a rapidly expanding customer base.

With both its current offerings and MaxESP, MaximumASP simplified the administration of shared hosting for its IT staff. Dominic Foster, CTO of MaximumASP added, ”With Application Request Routing on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, we’ve created a rock-solid platform that’s scalable to any level and takes care of all the headaches normally associated with shared hosting.”

John Zanni, general manager of the Worldwide Software plus Services Industry in the Microsoft Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp. offered, ”With Application Request Routing from Microsoft, hosting providers can offer elastic scalability, optimized resource utilization and reduced management costs to their customers in a simple process. MaximumASP, as our Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year, continues to innovate and demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies with its MaxESP platform.”

Additionally, MaximumASP takes advantage of the ability of ARR to manage multiple server farms and to manage and monitor all configuration settings through easy-to-use tools including IIS Remote Management.

Mr. Griffin added, ”ARR sits on top of a common, or shared, configuration system provided by IIS, which makes it very easy for us to develop custom modules or apply custom provisioning that plugs into the rest of our IT pipeline. We can use this to support billing, track customers, scale up or down, or add capacity for on-demand products that we want to roll out.”

MaximumASP can quickly provision highly available and scalable server farms and expand customers’ self-service options. Multiple layers of load balancing, enterprise SAN storage and redundant server farms will support high-performance requirements. The result will be better service for hosting customers and savings of up to U.S. $166,000 a year for MaximumASP in labor and hardware costs.

Mr. Foster continued, ”We are very excited about MaxESP as well as the IIS 7.5 architecture and anxious for more customer feedback on how it simplifies management of hosted sites and Web applications. MaximumASP continues to lead the hosting industry by giving our customers a competitive edge and enabling them to be first-to-market with new solutions.”

Created in IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 MaxESP has many exciting new features:

  • Easily create and control your applications in IIS 7.5 using IIS Remote Management
  • Highly available shared hosting with application aware load balancing
  • Need more power? No problem. Add instances of your application to seamlessly scale capacity
  • Decrease the number of nodes when not operating at peak times – or allocate to other website(s)
  • Customizable scalability right at your fingertips

MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Windows-based hosting services. MaximumASP was named by Microsoft as its 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year. The company currently hosts more than 50,000 domains for customers in over 120 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.

Posted by Admin on September 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Web hosting in simple terms is defines as a space given for rent for your hosting your domain and your website. There are numerous service providers in the internet market that provide this facility and boost the business of online entrepreneurs.

Depending on your particular needs, there are several choices that you can make when it comes to choosing the best type of web hosting. The most popular type of hosting is the shared web host which is ideal for most web sites. However, for accommodating sites which involve heavy traffic and those which contain sensitive information, managed web hosts are preferred.

Why shared web hosts?

When multiple websites share the same space on a single server, it is called shared web hosting. This is ideal for smaller websites which do have large amount of traffic congestion. It is inexpensive and effecting hosting solution as purchasing a dedicated server or even leasing it would be expensive for smaller websites.

There are packages offered by the web hosting companies for a certain amount which include a particular amount of space and bandwidth on the company’s server. Multiple web sites can be hosted on these web host servers as they have sufficiently large space and bandwidth to accommodate them.

Unless you experience sudden hike in traffic, the bandwidth and space provided by these hosting companies, granted according to the shared hosting agreement, is enough to fulfill your needs. There is also an option to negotiate additional space and bandwidth capacity just in case your website grows faster than expected.

In such cases, if your web hosting company doesn’t agree to provide extra space to accommodate the additional traffic, then you can purchase a higher level of hosting or even upgrade to managed web host dedicated servers.

Why managed web hosts?

There are certain websites which contain confidential and highly sensitive information and also are heavily trafficked. Such websites are better suited on managed web hosts which allocate one server particularly for your site. In this way, you will never share a web space with any other website ruling out the possibility of hacking and loosing confidential information.

Managing their own servers is quite difficult for companies who need dedicated servers for their websites. Instead, they opt for managed web hosting solutions. It becomes a time-consuming task when it comes to managing and administering your own servers. It will also hold the owner of the server responsible for all the maintenance aspects of this server, which might create security issues too.

It is difficult for companies with large websites to maintain their own dedicated servers as they themselves will be busy with their own business aspects. Instead, companies prefer to enter into a web hosting agreement in which hosting company takes the onus of the maintenance and management of the host server.

Which one is the best?

The decision of investing on any of the types of web hosting must depend on your specific needs and interest. If your website is large enough to require dedicated host servers, then you must always opt for managed hosting. However, it is necessary to cross-check and look if the shared web hosts will satisfy your needs.

Shared web hosts have fewer options than the managed web hosts. However spending on managed web hosting is not advisable if it is not necessary as share web hosts are sufficient for most of the websites.

Posted by Admin on August 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment

Web hosting is one of the most important tools to help you build a successful website. If you buy hosting that lacks features and/or functionality, then you are looking at being forced to build a website without having the tools required to do so.  A perfect example of this is trying to build a WordPress website on a web host that does not allow SQL databases.

If you’ve got the idea to build a main domain, with several spinoff subdomains, then your new web host that allows you to add subdomains without an additional charge.  Otherwise, you’d be unable to build a website the way that it was originally designed.  Some of the features you’re going to need to build a successful website are e-mail, FTP accounts, and analytics.  Although you could potentially get by without them, you’re far better off paying a little bit more to get the features that you’ll need to build your website the right way.

There are basically three types of hosting accounts, all of which vary in some form or another.  Shared hosting means that you are sharing resources with several other websites, which can be dangerous if you have a website with a lot of traffic.  VPS hosting is a form of shared hosting, although each website has an instanced server environment that is dedicated for that website.  Dedicated hosting means that you have one server dedicated to your website, which in exchange for providing the most efficiency and speed is also the most expensive.

Buying Web hosting can be a lengthy process but it is important that you spend the time to research all of your options so you can get the most bang for your buck.  Since it is difficult to transfer a website from one host to another, you’re far better off getting it right the first time then trying to transfer it down the road.

One last thing to be cautious of when purchasing web hosting, is that the company you choose has good customer service.  It does you no good to get cheap hosting if you can’t contact your provider in the event of a technical issue or outage.  That is why I’d rather pay a little bit more and have access to customer service and technical support without a hassle.

Posted by Admin on March 5th, 2009 | 3 Comments