January 29, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Software giant Microsoft (microsoft.com) and UK Web hosting provider WebFusion (webfusion.co.uk) announced on Thursday that they have partnered to offer free Web hosting (microsoft.com/uk/freestudenthosting) for university students in the United Kingdom.
The companies say that the service frees students from a university’s local area network, providing them with comprehensive Web hosting to create online applications and websites to support their studies.
All science, technology, engineering, mathematics and design university students within the UK will have access to the hosting offer for free throughout 2008. The plans are run on Windows Server 2008 beta with 500MB of Web space and 2GB of bandwidth per month. WebFusion also offers one SQL 2005 database, support and application development platforms including FTP access, ASP classic and ASP.Net 3.5, and PHP under FastCGI.
“Partnering with WebFusion, we’re giving students the ability to use the next generation of Microsoft Web technologies for free while running on a stable, high performance Microsoft Windows Server 2008 infrastructure, regardless of their location,” says William Coleman, Web platform architect evangelist at Microsoft. “Our aim is to have at least 10,000 students using the free hosting in 2008 and, with the support of WebFusion, we can grow this number year on year.”
Last month, Microsoft delivered the public beta of its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, called Hyper-V.
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