I’ve been recapping our Top 10 accomplishments at DiscountASP.NET for many years over on the DiscountASP.NET blog, so I started the same tradition for Everleap last year. Here is my Top 10 list for 2015.
We offer a Shared SQL hosting solution with our cloud hosting plans but some of you told us you needed more – more SQL storage, or more customization, or you needed to manage a lot of smaller SQL databases for a growing SaaS application. So we launched a Managed SQL hosting solution where you get your own private VM with your own SQL installation. Since it’s a private VM that is not shared with any other customers, we can do some customization on the server. We can enable features like SQL CLR and SQL Jobs or install special software or set up custom configurations for transaction logs or backups.
For disaster recovery purposes, we backup sites and databases nightly. Upon customer request (and for a fee) we can retrieve SQL backups from our backup system. But that is hardly a convenient way to obtain older SQL backups. So we introduced a way for you to get access to 3 days worth of your SQL backups right from Control Panel. The tool provides a way to retrieve older SQL backup copies and the Control Panel also has a SQL Backup tool so you can create a SQL backup at any time.
We’ve had many questions regarding Everleap’s performance. Microsoft MVP, Kevin Griffin, performed some load tests and shared his results in his review of Everleap on CodeProject. We performed our own study running load tests on Everleap and comparing the results against other popular hosting platforms like Godaddy and Microsoft Azure. And – you guessed it – Everleap’s platform shined. Check out the results of our performance tests here.
We performed our second Windows Azure Pack (WAP) update. With our cloud hosting platform, we are able to roll out the update a few servers at a time so customer sites are still operational during the update. The only snag we ran into on this WAP update was a longer than expected outage of the Control Panel – but customer sites were still up during the Control Panel update.
As part of our second Windows Azure Pack upgrade, we updated our platform with ASP.NET 4.5.2. It is getting more important to keep up to date with the minor versions of ASP.NET now, since Microsoft has publicly stated that they will only support the last two minor versions. So come January 2016, Microsoft is ending support for ASP.NET 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1.
We successfully renewed our Microsoft Gold Partner status for 2015 – making it our 10th year in maintaining this level! As Microsoft continues to raise the bar to attain the Gold Partnership we’ve witnessed many other hosting providers drop off. It is a significant investment on our part to maintain the Gold status and we work hard every year to qualify for it. We continue to make this investment not only because it demonstrates our expertise, but we also benefit from a closer relationship with Microsoft which allows us to bring you all the cool new cutting-edge stuff like our Everleap cloud platform based on Windows Azure Pack.
Everleap was recognized by CIO Review in their annual 100 Most Promising Microsoft solution provider list for 2015. Having just launched Everleap in the middle of 2014, making it on such a list just a year later is pretty awesome. Here is a link to the CIO Review Everleap profile.So that wraps up my Top 10 list for 2015. Thanks for reading and we are looking forward to bringing you more great technologies and hosting solutions in 2016. Have a great holiday season and wishing you a very Happy New Year!
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