Attention: This website is optimized for Internet Explorer 8+ and all other current browsers. A common question we get at Orcsweb is how does one host more than 1 web site on the Small Business Plan? It’s pretty straight forward and this walkthrough will show you how to get started. Orcsweb is well known for its Dedicated Windows Server hosting and Windows Cloud Server hosting but we also offer [...]
Read More DNS, iis7, server, shared-hosting, URL Rewrite, Windows Hosting
What sounds better to you? Overpay for limited support VMs by 22%, or pay a reasonable fixed price at OrcsWeb and get to experience the level of support that we’ve been well-known for in these past 17 years of business? Think about it while I help you understand the costs and a few of the differences between [...]
Read More Azure, cloud, Support, Windows Cloud, Windows Cloud Server Pricing
Changing the version of ASP.NET on your site is as simple as a few clicks with the new Orcsweb Control Panel. Once you logon to the control panel, select the site that you wish to manage. On the right side, click on “IIS Properties”. From here you can change the ASP.NET version, Pipeline mode or [...]
Read More asp-net, cloud, Control Panel, dedicated, How To, server, Shared, Video Tutorial, Windows Hosting
The OrcsWeb Control Panel has always been our clients’ doorway into administering their account. With the latest upgrades, even more control has been made available to our Windows Cloud server clients. I will touch on the available features in this blog post, as well as provide a video of the Control Panel in action. Increased [...]
Read More Bandwidth, cloud-server, Control Panel, CPU, Memory, server, Server Management
If you’re thinking about blogging and would like to set up something fast and simple, WordPress seems to be the way to go. Even when you’re running on a Dedicated or Cloud Server, you can get this up and running in no time. There are at least 2 ways to install WordPress on your Windows [...]
Read More cloud, Install WordPress, Microsoft Web Platform Installer, Windows Cloud Server, WordPress
Did you know that Orcsweb now offers Windows Cloud Servers featuring Window Server 2012 and IIS 8? One of the many great features of IIS 8 is Remote Administration. It is not enabled by default but once configured this feature will allow you to maintain your web site using the IIS Manager gui without having [...]
Read MoreI was recently asked by one of our clients to delete a file that was accidentally uploaded to their server via FTP and which they did not seem to be able to delete. Pretty simple request, right? First thought when I read the request was, it’s simple, there’s a lock on the file so all [...]
Read More FTP, server, Windows Command Processor, Windows HostingKnowing how to estimate your IOP usage can help you understand your server usage and help calculate how many blocks of SAN Transactions your server will need. Cloud Servers at Orcsweb use a Storage Area Network (SAN) to store the image of your server. All reads and writes to the disk on your server are operations [...]
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What is MySQL Workbench? It is a great and powerful MySQL tool that helps developers design, model, develop, migrate and administer their databases. My previous post on Installing and Configuring MySQL on Windows Server ended with a screenshot of this powerful GUI tool called MySQL Workbench which asked for another post and quick overview of [...]
Read More Backups, Data, database, MySQL, MySQL Workbench, server, sqlWe recently had a cloud server client contact us about problems encountered when exporting data from SQL Server via a webpage. This webpage would access data from a SQL table and aggregate it into an Excel file. When the client would try to run this process, the CPU for the worker process would spike and [...]
Read More iis, IIS 7, IIS 7.5, Performance Monitor, Resource Monitor, Server Performance, Troubleshooting, Windows Server 2008 R2, Worker Processes IIS
