Using SSL encryption to secure information is server and client processor intensive, not to mention that the process can significantly slow the presentation of pages to your visitors. Not surprisingly, some webmasters have instituted an underhanded method to avoid the entire problem by placing sensitive information such as login/password inputs on home pages that are not SSL encrypted. The general programming concept seems to be that since the login/password information is being submitted to a HTTPS encrypted page, the data secure.  Well not so fast.

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Steps I took for upgrading ( using webhost4life):

 

1. Make a back up of db;

2. Make a copy of the entire website folder and upload the upload the DotNetNuke_4.4.1_Upgrade files by doing the followings:

 

   a) Create a new root folder on webhost4life;

   b) Zip the current working web folder (the folder which has the entire dnn installation);

   c) Unzip the zipped folder into the newly created root folder;

   d) Upload the dnn 4.4.1 upgrade files ("DotNetNuke_4.4.1_Upgrade", unzipped) to the server's newly created folder.

3. Point the site directory to the newly created folder.

 

That's it. This way you don't need to change any keys or anything on web.config file. And if there is anything goes wrong, you can change the path to the old folder immediately.

 

Note:

Remove all the unnecessary modules before the process. Make sure module versions would work with the new dnn installation.

 

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Scenario

You are upgrading your web site and as part of the upgrade, it means moving and renaming particular files.

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Both of these posts miss the original point that Joel was trying to make:  Ruby is still not a mature language, and Ruby on Rails is even less mature.  There is no evidence yet that Ruby or Ruby on Rails applications will scale to the level typically required for many large scale web applications.  There are well documented performance issues, that Joel rightly points out.

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