Chuck Self posted on March 12, 2009 15:09
If you have ever come across anyone who has tried installing DotNetNuke on a Network Solutions hosting package you might hear some colorful language and then you get to hear about their new hosting company.
First, I am in no way advocating or endorsing Network Solutions over any other shared hosting service. I will say that they have made some improvements to their hosting packages in recent months (check out Network Solutions hosting prices here) and they now provide unlimited disk space and bandwidth.
Regardless of my own preferences, they are a large company and you may have an account with them today or a client of yours may have one down the road and I thought it was worth pointing out some best practices that I’ve found to help improve your DNN experience which is what the purpose of this Blog.
The one thing you find not only with Network Solutions, but many hosting providers is lack of documentation on properly installing and configuring DNN.
To help document my own procedures for helping clients who have Network Solutions and help other who may be a Network Solutions customer I have put together 30 Steps to Successfully Installing DotNetNuke on a Network Solutions Shared Hosting Package.
This document may help answer some of your questions regarding properly configuring DNN for the best performance and long term success of your DotNetNuke portals.
Below are some of the items I address:
- Installing DotNetNuke
- Changing the Host and Admin Passwords
- Moving the installation to the Root folder for improved URL’s and SEO
- Enabling the Human Friendly Url’s
- Performance Settings to make your DNN site run faster
- Enabling daily Website Backups
- Enabling daily Database Backups
Some of these recommendations can be used for any hosting company.
I plan to follow up this article with additional “How To” documents on the following topics in the coming weeks.
- Why a Keep Alive service is so important for your DNN installation
- Using Snapsis PageBlaster to improve your DNN performance
- How to implement improved URL’s for SEO and reduce duplicate content
What has been your recent experience with Network Solutions and DNN?
Share with me any additional advice or recommendations on improving the base installation of DotNetNuke on Network Solutions.
30 Steps to Successfully Installing DotNetNuke on a Network Solutions Shared Hosting Package