One of the worst experiences you can have with your website is to end up with a bad hosting provider where servers seem to drop offline for no apparent reason, or you have convoluted configuration options in the hosting control panel which complicates application installation, or you are left with poor technical support which takes forever to resolve your issues. These experiences don’t just happen with new or small hosters. Sometimes even great hosting companies can falter and provide substandard service. Hopefully they recover in time to satisfy the customer, but there are times where even the best follow up after a bad customer service experience is not enough and the customer feels like they need to find a new host.

The DotNetNuke community is composed of individuals and organizations that serve a wide range of needs for DotNetNuke users. Whether it is the skin designer, module developer or web hoster, every part of the DotNetNuke ecosystem helps make it easy for our users to take full advantage of the DotNetNuke platform to run their website. In this series of posts I’ll be focusing on the hosters in our community and looking at some capabilities that make each of them unique.

I recently came across a new hoster who has taken a unique approach to providing hosting services. Traditionally, if you were a web hosting company, you would purchase a bunch of servers and provision them in a data center. As virtualization technology matured, hosters began to shift their high end accounts from dedicated servers to virtual servers. With the advent of cloud services like Amazon EC2, some hosters are completely doing away with the capital costs of owning their own servers.

The DotNetNuke community is composed of individuals and organizations that serve a wide range of needs for DotNetNuke users. Whether it is the skin designer, module developer or web hoster, every part of the DotNetNuke ecosystem helps make it easy for our users to take full advantage of the DotNetNuke platform to run their website. In this series of posts I’ll be focusing on the hosters in our community and looking at some capabilities that make each of them unique.

PowerDNN has made quite a name for themselves in our community and like any good business they look for ways to solve customer problems. To simplify management of customer accounts, PowerDNN developed the PowerDNN Control Suite. In addition to using the tool internally, PowerDNN makes the Control Suite available to their Enterprise cloud customers.

DotNetNuke is a web content management system and an application framework that has grown over the past 8 years to solve many of the challenges faced by developers when building websites and web applications.  Because of this rich feature set, it is possible that there may be areas of the platform which you have yet to explore.  In this ongoing series, I plan to use short video clips to highlight some of my favorite features of the platform.

A few weeks ago, Ash Prasad, a software engineer at DotNetNuke Corp. discussed a new feature he worked on for 5.6.2.  Ash did a really great job on the feature and I thought it would be worthwhile to show this feature in action.   The new user management features definitely make deleting and restoring users much easier and restores the ability to permanently delete users from you DotNetNuke site.

DotNetNuke is a web content management system and an application framework that has grown over the past 8 years to solve many of the challenges faced by developers when building websites and web applications.  Because of this rich feature set, it is possible that there may be areas of the platform which you have yet to explore.  In this ongoing series, I plan to use short video clips to highlight some of my favorite features of the platform.

In this video, I focus the spotlight on the Dashboard Module which was first added in DotNetNuke 5.0.  For more information about extending the dashboard, you should check out DotNetNuke Tips and Tricks #9 where I discuss how you can create your own plugin for the dashboard module.

DotNetNuke is a web content management system and an application framework that has grown over the past 8 years to solve many of the challenges faced by developers when building websites and web applications.  Because of this rich feature set, it is possible that there may be areas of the platform which you have yet to explore.  In this ongoing series, I plan to use short video clips to highlight some of my favorite features of the platform.

In this first video, I focus the spotlight on the Configuration Manager, a new feature that will be...