Windows hosting is gaining more and more fame among web designers and website owners. The figures by Netcraft shows that almost 35.8% websites over the internet are hosted by Windows hosting providers or are located at Windows based server. This statistics are getting better and better every day. The new and great features of .Net platform attract web developers to make the web sites in ASP.NET platform and finally they are hosted on Windows hosting servers. Windows platform is getting better and safer every day. And with such improving features anyone will prefer Windows Servers than any other platform.
Microsoft Corporation’s very first server side script for dynamic web pages is called Active Server Pages well known as ASP. This was a suppressed version and a new version was introduced in market called ASP.NET. There was an apparent difference between both of these versions and hence the older version is used to be called as Classic ASP.
Windows web hosting provides all features that are required to set up your personal website or any business website in a very convenient way. It is very user friendly interface and smooth running without any harassment makes it best suited platform for web hosting. Not only that, you are having natural supports of all Microsoft applications to help you most attractive and user friendly website that will definitely draw traffic. For example you can easily build website that sells phone card online with ASP.NET technologies. ASP.NET has built-in components that allow you to speed up your web development process hence shorten time-to-market delivery.
A large number of companies providing facility of windows hosting are in the market. And all of them are at affordable rates. Having new interesting features in Windows Server 2008 and increasing demand in the market lead more and more companies to start windows hosting. Windows server 2008 Web Edition produced by Microsoft Corporation is dedicatedly structured for windows hosting. It is well organized in way that it is helpful to application developers to Internet Service Providers.
The new features added into new Windows Server 2008 edition Operating System are having lots of interesting updates than its previous version. It consists of improved versions of administrative tools, security features, management and monitoring features, image based installation, mind-blowing firewall, and lots of technical features. All configurations are made through command line argument interface of windows.
Most important part of windows server-Active Directory is improved by including right management, certificate management, and identity management systems. Also one more noticeable improvement is at Terminal Services Remote Application which can share any small or big application with the help of remote desktop application. It includes task-based scripting technology and Windows Power Shell which is a new version of command line shell scripting. And last but not the least windows System Resource Manager to control all the resources that a user or an application can have with priorities.
These great features will lead anyone to switch to Windows based platform or say Windows Server 2008. All other platforms have a lot of work to perform to stand with Windows Server in the market. Still there is a very tough competition with Apache server but Microsoft is having lots of expectations from this new Windows Server 2008 to break all market records.
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Rebecca Smith is a web hosting consultant who loves travelling and share her travelling on travel blog about hotel deals information. She is also experienced in building phone card website.