March 5, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web host DiscountASP.NET (http://www.discountasp.net) has announced the launch of Windows 2008 shared hosting with IIS 7.0, it was reported yesterday. According to the company, the new Microsoft hosting platform “includes many new enhancements” including FTP 7 (including FTP over SSL), PHP5, and Trust Level Control and Microsoft IIS Manager access. The company has also added two new Control Panel tools for IIS7 hosting management.
"DiscountASP.NET is committed to innovation and being a first mover in the adoption of new Microsoft technology in the Windows shared hosting niche,” explained the company’s VP Marketing, Takeshi Eto. “With our launch of Windows 2008 hosting, we are excited to provide our customers with the most cutting-edge hosting environment so they can create and deploy next-generation web applications.”
“We also want to make sure that we do not leave out our existing DiscountASP.NET customers from the benefits of the new IIS7 hosting platform,” added Eto. “For those customers that want to migrate from our Windows 2003 hosting platform to the new Windows 2008 hosting platform, they can request to schedule a server migration.”
DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and “one of the first hosts” to launch ASP.NET 3.5 hosting, ASP.NET AJAX hosting, and Silverlight compatible hosting.
