It is a good day to buy web hosting at Arvixe. They have a Black Friday promotion going on right now. Any new account will be eligible for a 50% off for life as long as they continue to renew the plan. This promotion is not for existing accounts and can not be used on the day of or in the future for upgrades.

Arvixe has been a strong financial supporter of mojoPortal for a long time now with their generous affiliate program they provide us a great deal of support. So please click our ad before purchasing hosting so that they know we sent you. We get a nice affiliate commission that helps fund the continued improvements in mojoPortal and you get a great deal on hosting! 

Black Friday starts early at Arvixe Web Hosting, starting today, Thursday, Thanksgiving 2011 and lasting for 48 hours.

If you purchase hosting between now and the end of the day Friday you get 50% off their already low prices and the savings is continued for the life of your hosting account, that is you get the same discount ongoing as long as you continue to renew the account.

Not only that but if you click our ad and purchase hosting we get a nice contribution from Arvixe no matter how low the price is for you, so its a big help to the mojoPortal project when you click our Arvixe ads before you buy hosting.  Arvixe is the top financial contributor to the mojoPortal project so we are very thankful to them. If you need web hosting now is a really good time to sign up.

We are very thankful for all of you in our awesome mojoPortal Community and wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!

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As many of you know mojoPortal is in the Windows Web Application Gallery and can be easily installed using the Platform Installer. However when we make new releases of mojoPortal it can be several weeks before we get the new version into the Web Application Gallery. We usually wait a little while to make sure we shake out any bugs before submitting updates to the Gallery and then once we do submit it it may take a few days to a week before it is updated there.

Now we have a custom product feed that can be used in the Platform Installer and we can update our own feed immediately when we make new releases. Our custom feed also has packages for SQL CE, SQLite, PostgreSQL and Firebird Sql packages of mojoPortal, in addition to the package for MS SQL, whereas the only package we have in the Web App Gallery is for MS SQL.

The product feed is brand new and I just revamped our article Installing mojoPortal Using the Web Platform Installer to provide full step by step details about how to add our product feed and install mojoPortal.

Once you've added our product feed to the Platform Installer a new mojoPortal tab appears and shows all of our latest packages for .NET 4.

The Platform Installer can install SQL Express if you don't already have it installed. Of course the packages for SQL CE and SQLite are the easiest to install because they are file based databases and have no database software that needs to be installed. You can install the packages for PostgreSql or Firebird but for those packages you would have to manually install the database server software and set your connection string in user.config.

We're always looking for ways to make things easier and I've been meaning to get this product feed put together for quite a while now. I once had made a feed as a static xml file but it was not easy to keep up to date so I ended up not keeping it up to date. The new feed is a custom .ashx file that I can easily edit with the new file information and it generates the feed, so it will be much easier to keep it updated as we make new releases of mojoPortal.

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It's a good day to buy web hosting! Arvixe is having a black friday sale with 50% off their already low prices.

The sale is today only, to get 50% off all you need to do is enter the coupon code "blackfriday" (or I've seen it listed as 2 words "Black Friday", so try that if blackfriday doesn't work). 

A lot of mojoPortal users have been signing up for Arvixe lately and we've had very good feedback from the people who are hosted there. I highly recommend Arvixe and if you need hosting today is a great day to sign up and get a really good deal!

The sale lasts all day on 2010-11-26