As you all surely know, the third Orchard Harvest conference will be between 9-11 June in Seattle. If you attend (or watch the recordings later) you'll be able to also hear about what's under the hood of DotNest in our "Building an Orchard SaaS - DotNest" talk. We'll share the experiences of building and operating DotNest so you can make your own Orchard web apps better. See you at Harvest!

Search engine optimization (i.e. tuning your site to be on top of Google pages) is not so "in" than a few years back, but it still matters a lot, and not just for search engines, but for the general user experience. We added the SEO module by Onestop to DotNest, available to everybody!

As you may know from the relevant Knowledge Base page output caching for DotNest sites are managed by a reverse proxy: this means that a server is sitting in front of DotNest, caching pages and serving cached pages instantly.

Orchard Harvest is only a little more than a month from now and we are proud to announce that we have a new DotNest site to showcase related to that: the website of the Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge!

In the series of featured DotNest sites we intend to give some publicity to the nicest DotNest sites: starting with Native Hungarian!

We want to do everything for you to trust DotNest for running your valuable websites: this is why we very much care about minimizing outages. DotNest opened about a month ago: in this month the uptime ratio of DotNest tenants was more than 99,99%! (As measured by Uptime Robot.)

Update time! In this round we fixed some bugs that arose recently, among others one with Media Theme deployment that caused the deployment hook not to work correctly in all circumstances. Also we made some changes to the subsystem that is responsible for running maintenances tasks. This means that we can now make upgrades more safely, keeping your sites up-to-date all the time without you even noticing.

We deployed some little fixes (and you probably didn't even notice the deployment; what is a good thing, since we strive to make such updates totally seamless). Most important from them is that we fixed how the SMTP settings are populated. That means that if you want to send e-mails from your tenant (like from a contact form or to get notifications about new comments to your blog), it will work now.