April 17, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider HostMySite (hostmysite.com) announced on Tuesday it is offering a free trial for Microsoft's newest Internet Information Services technology (iis.net). HostMySite is one of the early adopters of IIS7 and is the first to provide customers with access to the IIS7 environment.
IIS7 has already shipped in Windows Vista as a full-featured Web server for developers, and Microsoft will ship IIS7 for Web hosting in its upcoming release of Windows Server Codename "Longhorn". As a completely modular Web server with integrated .NET extensibility, IIS7 enables complete flexibility in extending and customizing the Web server.
The modules are simple to build and can rapidly incorporate in IIS7. More than forty modules are included and can be replaced, removed, or new ones added since IIS7 is built on public Win32 and .NET extensibility APIs. HostMySite worked with Microsoft, using IIS7 in a production environment with the IIS7 Go Live license well before the official product release.
"It's exciting to be involved in shaping new technology," says Monish Sood, director of marketing for HostMySite. "It's even more exciting to be able to involve our customers. Their observations and assistance is invaluable for Microsoft as well as HostMySite.com."
