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Windows Server Maintenance Schedule

ADII Blogger — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:12:26 +0000

We have scheduled installation of Virtuozzo and Windows updates on our Windows Server between 11pm EDT Saturday September 5 and 5am EDT Sunday September 6. There will be some outages when the server is rebooted.

Thanks – Webmaster

Web Hosting Maintenance Schedule(s) – August 2009

ADII Blogger — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:41:37 +0000

August 3, 2009: There will be installation of Virtuozzo and Windows updates on alinnov.adiipl.com Windows server. This has been scheduled between midnight and 6am EDT on Monday August 3rd. There will be some outages when the server is rebooted.

Upgrades to ADII Hosting Infrastructure – July 2009

ADII Blogger — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:51:43 +0000

We are planning for a major upgrade to our server infrastructure later this weekend (5:00 AM – 3:00 PM GMT on July 25, 2009). We request kind cooperation of our web hosting customers who will be affected during this upgrades. If we have not notified through a separate email, then you are not affected by this upgrade. The upgrade window will be 10 hours, but there will be no downtime to any website. However, we request the site owners not to update any content and not to access web applications during this period. Please note that the public websites will be accessible as usual during the upgrades.

- The Webmaster

The Buzz of Cloud Computing

ADII Blogger — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:33:14 +0000

We talk of computation as a service bundle when we talk of cloud computing. We aim to use the entire platform including the server infrastructure, computer network, operating system and software applications as a service and aim to pay per use basis.

The situation is like taking the flight to a destination with a small fee where we do not need to be worried about cost and maintenance of aircraft, airport infrastructure and maintenance, and crew salary, etc. We only pay a fee for the flight ticket, for the service we hire or paying for use only.

The whole concept started with using software as a service where application service providers setup their software or application to be used in pay-per-use basis. This was termed as SaaS (Software as a Service). Later the same concept was extended to hardware and we called it as HaaS (Hardware as a Service). A natural extension is Platform as a Service (PaaS) which became very popular recently, and people wanted to give a holistic approach to computing. Thus came the cloud computing where we took an inclusive approach to computing with network and server resources, operating system and software applications work in unison to provide storage, application computing and manageability.

There is a distinct advantage of cloud computing apart from the cost component and the issue of management of the whole set of infrastructure of computing. This is the time to go live. We can create a cloud server in a matter of minutes. We can scale of our resources as per our requirements. This provides an instant availability of practically infinite amount of cost-effective and production-quality computing infrastructure as our disposal.

jQuery in ash.MVC PHP Framework

ADII Blogger — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:28:50 +0000

As we work through conceptual guidelines of new revision to the PHP Application Framework, we battle hard to incorporate a standard client-side library that can provide robust support to AJAX calls, and at the same time, can help build client layer easily and in quick manner. The numerous attractive libraries pose a great difficulty to choose the right one.

We are not interested in choosing just a light-weight one. We would rather like to have an enterprise-grade Javascript library which can be used for broad-range of purposes. The natural choice becomes jQuery as it provides a well-performing core file along with diverse set of plugins for almost all required tasks. The better part is that it provides a customizable user interface (UI) library to achieve the client-side UI building tasks. Though the library is yet to cover all macro-aspects of functional information architecture like menus and layouts, the library provides a step in right direction.