<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"><channel><title>Web Services</title><link>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/category/71.aspx</link><description>Web Services</description><managingEditor>Mark H. Wagner</managingEditor><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>.Text Version 0.95.2004.102</generator><item><dc:creator>Mark H. Wagner</dc:creator><title>Professional Grade Hosting starting at $4.95</title><link>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/12/11/1602.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:29:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/12/11/1602.aspx</guid><description>&lt;P&gt;I have been hosting at &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; how for about three years.&amp;nbsp; I cannot say enough good things about this hosting service.&amp;nbsp; Yes, this is something of a shameless advertisement - but it is the honest truth.&amp;nbsp; If you are in the market for a new hosting service with professional grade products, you should try &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt;. Here is an &lt;A href="http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/03/30/814.aspx"&gt;article&lt;/A&gt; I posted a while back that covers my experience with WebHost4Life.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Here are the reasons I find the &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; hosting service of great value:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI&gt;Excellent self-service control panel.&amp;nbsp; (I can do it myself) 
&lt;LI&gt;Unlimited Bandwidth/Traffice (no monthly fee suprises) 
&lt;LI&gt;Excellent support with very good response 
&lt;LI&gt;and Professional grade products&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="/images/blogs_crsw_com/mark/49/o_MicrosoftServers.gif"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src ="http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/aggbug/1602.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>Mark H. Wagner</dc:creator><title>Securing the Username Token with WSE 2.0 by Keith Brown</title><link>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/03/30/816.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:26:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/03/30/816.aspx</guid><wfw:comment>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/comments/816.aspx</wfw:comment><comments>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/03/30/816.aspx#Feedback</comments><slash:comments>10</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/comments/commentRss/816.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/services/trackbacks/816.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;P&gt;I have been working to improve my knowledge of WSE and WSE 2.0.&lt;SPAN&gt;  &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://pluralsight.com/blogs/keith/archive/2005/02/01/5526.aspx" target=_blank&gt;Keith Brown&lt;/A&gt; has an excellent article on &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwse/html/securusernametoken.asp" target=_blank&gt;Securing the Username Token with WSE 2.0&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;SPAN&gt;  &lt;/SPAN&gt;He also has a post on his &lt;A href="http://pluralsight.com/blogs/keith/archive/2005/02/01/5526.aspx" target=_blank&gt;blog&lt;/A&gt; with comments regarding this article.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Keith does an excellent job of clearly discussing the &lt;EM&gt;what&lt;/EM&gt;, &lt;EM&gt;why&lt;/EM&gt;, and the &lt;EM&gt;how&lt;/EM&gt; on best-practices for securing user tokens - and why it is so important to do this correctly.  He covers how to mitigate agains issues like brute-force and off-line attacks as well as what not to do.  Clear and concise.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src ="http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/aggbug/816.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>Mark H. Wagner</dc:creator><title>WebHost4Life: The Best ASP.NET Web Host I Can Afford</title><link>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/03/30/814.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/03/30/814.aspx</guid><wfw:comment>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/comments/814.aspx</wfw:comment><comments>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/archive/2005/03/30/814.aspx#Feedback</comments><slash:comments>54</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/comments/commentRss/814.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/services/trackbacks/814.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;A href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG height=600 alt="Join WebHost4Life.com" src="http://www.webhost4life.com/images/banner120x600.gif" width=120 align=right border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;!-- WebHost4Life.com Code End --&gt; 
&lt;P&gt;The best ASP.NET web host I can afford 
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&lt;P&gt;I felt I just needed to share my happiness about my web site hosting provider.&amp;nbsp; I have been hosting with &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; for about two years now and I must say I have been very satisfied with the service and support.&amp;nbsp; Yes, I know this may appear to be a shameless advertisement.&amp;nbsp; But I am truly satisfied with both the service and support. 
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&lt;P&gt;Just to be absolutely clear and upfront with you.&amp;nbsp; I do get a referral bonus for anyone who joins &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; that I have referred (by clicking on my &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; link), &lt;STRONG&gt;and it doesn&amp;#8217;t cost you anything extra&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&amp;nbsp; But I promise you, I could not be more sincere about what I say here.&amp;nbsp; And don't think I'm special; you can get the same referral bonus if you are a member and refer others to &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; to! 
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&lt;P&gt;As a professional software developer, one of the things I like best is the web-based Control Panel.&amp;nbsp; I'm a self-serve kind of&amp;nbsp;guy.&amp;nbsp; With WebHost4Life I&amp;nbsp;can do about 99% of anything I need to do on my own, including SQL Server management, backups, and more.&amp;nbsp; I don't need to try to explain what I need and why I need it to an under-paid, overworked (and sometimes an incapable), technical support person.&amp;nbsp; I can do it myself. 
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; has plans I can afford.&amp;nbsp; I don't consider myself to be cheap, but I do know a good value when I see one.&amp;nbsp; Besides, I really can&amp;#8217;t reasonably justify and afford more than the $9.95 per month I pay &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt;. 
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&lt;P&gt;With this said, I have needed to contact support a few times in the past two years, and I have been very happy with the response and support I have received.&amp;nbsp; &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; recently added support for SharePoint Server and I decided to install it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;With my hosting plan&amp;nbsp;I get SharePoint Server for free, and I only have the $9.95 per month plan.&amp;nbsp; Anyhow, using their web Control Panel I installed it myself - only to get an error.&amp;nbsp; I contacted technical support using the web-based&amp;nbsp;support request application&amp;nbsp;and they promptly replied saying I needed to have my account (website) moved to a new server that supported SharePoint.&amp;nbsp; They moved it and my site was down for about 20 minutes.&amp;nbsp; All was good. 
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&lt;P&gt;This morning I encountered a problem with my site; which was not good, but was due to the move to a new server.&amp;nbsp; What I like about &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; and their support, is how responsive they are.&amp;nbsp; As a software developer, I work with systems and software in the real world every day, not just at home for fun.&amp;nbsp; Problems&amp;nbsp;do&amp;nbsp;happen.&amp;nbsp; What is important is how often these problems happen and how quickly they are resolved.&amp;nbsp; With &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; I have had almost no problems; and when I have had a problem, they have resolved it very quickly. 
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&lt;P&gt;Again, I know this post sounds like a commercial.&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;And yes, I do hope some of you sign-up with &lt;A title="" href="http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=MarkHWagner" target=_blank&gt;WebHost4Life&lt;/A&gt; using one of my links :).&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;But, for me this is simply the truth.&lt;/P&gt;
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