Microsoft Windows Hosting Feature Spotlight

We offer affordable Windows 2008 hosting.

Windows Server 2008 is the latest Windows operating system delivering our customers with a lot more control over their shared hosting accounts.

The Windows 2008 hosting platform comes with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7). Unlike many other hosts, we allow IIS7 Manager access for FREE and you can control many IIS configurations through your web.config file. For example, we support the Microsoft URL Rewriting module and we allow full trust.

We offer low cost ASP.NET web hosting.

Your applications can be written in any language that is compatible with the common language runtime (CLR), including Visual Basic and C#.

Our .NET hosting plans support ASP.NET 4.0 hosting that includes the new ADO.NET Entity Framework and is compatible with Visual Studio 2010.

Our Windows 2008 Hosting platform also fully supports ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 hosting and .NET 2.0 hosting.

One click web application installer available in control panel.

In the WinHost control panel, there is a one click web application installer for convenient installation of many popular open source web applications. We take the apps from the Microsoft Web Application Gallery, test them and make them available in our control panel.

The Application Installer includes .NET applications like Orchard, DotNetNuke (DNN), nopCommerce and BlogEngine. We also include PHP apps like WordPress and PHPBB.

Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC 3 is even supported on our cheapest hosting plan.

You can build Web applications as a composite of 3 different roles. The “Model” is the application state typically stored in a database. The “View” extracts information from the “Model” and displays the information. The “Controller” updates the “Model” to keep track of any changes in state.

To use MVC, you can freely upload the MVC assemblies to your /bin folder.

All versions of Silverlight, including Silverlight 5, is supported on all our .NET hosting plans.

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser plug-in for delivering next generation rich interactive web applications. Silverlight is a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, Visual Basic and C#, and can integrate with your existing web applications. Silverlight enabled web applications can be developed using Microsoft Expression Studio and Visual Studio.

We support Microsoft WebMatrix with all of our ASP.NET hosting plans.

WebMatrix is a free development tool from Microsoft that can help you easily create a website using open source web applications or custom code your own site.

In the WinHost control panel, you can download the web deploy XML publish settings to make deploying that much easier.

MS SQL Server 2008 / SQL 2008 R2 hosting is FREE with all our ASP.NET hosting plans.

We host SQL data on separate SQL servers and promise never to host websites and SQL databases on the same server.

You get DBO rights and we support integrated full text search, stored procedures, and ASP.NET SQL Session. You can manage your SQL database remotely using SQL Management Studio or SQL Management Studio Express.

Our Windows hosting plans are Visual Studio LightSwitch compatible.

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a development tool that enables you to build applications quickly and easily. LightSwitch 2011 makes it simple for users of all skill levels to build and deploy polished, user-friendly applications.

LightSwitch contains templates, providing a professional look and consistency among your forms and allows you to easily customize the business logic and rules unique to your business.

All of our Microsoft ASP.NET hosting plans support AJAX.

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. ASP.NET AJAX is built into ASP.NET and is a free framework for creating interactive cross-browser web applications. ASP.NET AJAX allows you to access remote services and data directly from the browser and in the background.

With ASP.NET AJAX you can rapidly create web pages with responsive user interfaces and allows creation of applications which can update data on the web page without a complete reload of the page.

Our Windows hosting is Kentico CMS compatible.

Kentico Software helps clients create successful websites, community sites and intranets using Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. With offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Czech Republic and more than 1,200 partners in 80 countries, Kentico is one of the industry leaders worldwide.

We provide a one click installer for Kentico CMS in the WinHost Control Panel. The Kentico CMS is best on our Max or Ultimate hosting plan.

All of our plans come with PHP hosting support.

PHP is one of the most popular open source scripting language for the web and we support it here at WinHost.

In the past, PHP didn't run well on a Windows hosting server but over the last several years, Microsoft has improved IIS and now PHP runs great on Windows hosting platforms. That means popular open source apps like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal will run on our Windows hosting plans.

Our Windows hosting come with free MySQL database hosting.

MySQL is a popular open source relational database system and we support it as part of our Windows hosting plans at WinHost.

By supporting MySQL hosting you can use popular open source apps like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal with our Windows hosting plans. We have a one click installer for many of these apps in our control panel.

All of our plans support classic ASP hosting.

ASP stands for Active Server Pages and was Microsoft's first script engine to dynamically generate web pages.

Microsoft in recent times has shifted to pushASP.NET, there are still many legacy ASP applications and software out on the web and we can be your ASP hosting solution.

Our plans support Access database hosting.

Access database is part of Microsoft's Office Suite. Even though Access is typically used as a desktop application, the Access database can also be used as a file based database to drive web sites. Access is not as robust or scalable as MS SQL but for lighter web site activities, Access can be a solution.

We support dynamic Access driven websites with all our Windows hosting plans.