Microsoft .NET

As one of the sector's first professional outsourcers, Siennax has also set up an integral MS .Net platform for you.

Siennax is recognized as Microsoft Certified Partner and also participates in the Microsoft ASP .NET Hosting programme. For more information please refer to http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/programs/aspnet.mspx.

Learn more about ASP.NET: http://www.asp.net/learnmore

The MS .Net Utility has the following characteristics:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Advanced Server as basic operating system.
  • The highest possible guaranteed availability during Prime Time.
  • Set up in accordance with the guidelines applied by Microsoft Systems Architecture Internet Data Center and Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting version 2 concerning such matters as network segmentation, Microsoft ISA Server utilisation, configuration of application servers, setup of Directory Servers, security and application isolation.
  • Isolated application environments, to prevent applications from affecting one another.
  • Separate test, acceptance and production environments. Release Management facilitates this segregation, while application and operating system fixes and service packs can also be installed in a stringently controlled manner.
  • Support whenever you independently perform Release Management using FTP to test and production environments for content such as html pages and photos.
  • Support for basic authentication (user ID and password), strong authentication (client certificates), Integrated Windows Authentication and Passport Authentication.
  • Load balancing, including configuration of sticky sessions if required.

An organisation connected to the Siennax .Net-utility is supplied with the following, as standard:

  • One acceptance and one production application server cluster.
  • One fixed public IP-address for the production environment and one for the acceptance environment.
  • One DNS entry.
  • Incoming and outgoing Internet traffic, HTTP and HTTPS.
  • Failsafe network storage.
  • Use of SMTP relay servers for outgoing eMail, including virus scanning.
  • Daily backup of content, such as uploads, in both the production and acceptance environments' application files.

The following options are also available:

  • Load & performance tests.
  • The use of directory servers for storage of user accounts.
  • Authentication by means of proxy servers. This option does, however, rely on the storage of user accounts on Siennax directory servers.
  • Facilities for provisioning and management of user accounts on directory servers.
  • Database services.
  • One FTP account per organisation, configured for uploading static files to the application file.
  • Server Certificates for HTTPS access.

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