Setting up a Windows Server environment can be challenging. From hardware to software and from security to services, there are an incredible number of factors to consider. By breaking the decisions ...

When you think of containers, it's easy to think of Linux first. Most containers and container workflows are built on Linux, and for obvious reasons. Linux starts faster, takes up less space on disk ...

With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft has built in a reverse-proxy feature. The Web Application Proxy securely publishes internal resources out to the Internet for access by both corporate-owned ...

Even the most Microsoft-ardent developer will know web hosts favour Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP over Windows, IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server. Thanks to virtualisation the days of dual booting are over.