FREE Windows 2008 , IIS 7.0 Beta Hosting
Thanks to our partnership with Microsoft, we are pleased to offer new and existing customers an insigt into the innovative new features on Windows 2008 and IIS7. The early adoption allows you to see what's coming to the hosting realm and define how the new features will fit and help extend your e-business.
IIS 7 is a new revision of the Internet Information Services that comes with Windows 2008. IIS 7 includes new FastCGI module and is capable of providing fast and reliable PHP hosting and other Web frameworks.
IIS7 is a flexible, more extensible Web server for developing and deploying Web applications on Windows Server 2008. IIS7 has a fully modular architecture, consisting of over 40 pluggable modules, built on top of all public extensibility APIs. Some important features of IIS 7 are:
- A completely modular design for improved performance and stability
- FastCGI support - FastCGI simplifies server-subprogram communications, offering improved process performance and process isolation for all FastCGI aware application servers such as PHP 5.
- Enhanced security features and much more!
- Improved troubleshooting and error debugging functionality
- Tight ASP.NET integration built into the IIS core
| Hosting Package - Windows Server 2008 Beta |
| 1GB Disk Space |
| MS SQL Express Edition - 1 Database |
| FTP Access |
| 2GB Bandwidth |
| ASP.Net 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 with LINQ Support |
| PHP 5.2.x with FastCGI Support |
| Optional Windows Sharepoint Server 3.0 |
| dotnetpanel Control Panel |
For Developers
Developers can build applications on IIS7 using the Web framework of their choice and enjoy excellent performance and reliability. IIS7 provides continued support for classic ASP, and all-new ASP.NET integration which allows for Web server extensibility via the .NET Framework, enabling ASP.NET services like Forms Authentication and Output Caching to work with all types of applications. It also provides world-class support for many modern community and commercial Web frameworks including PHP, PERL and many others. IIS7 features a distributed configuration system that enables IIS settings to stored in Web.config files so applications can be easily xcopy deployed, preconfigured, to IIS7 servers. It helps developers troubleshoot issues quicker and minimize development and Web site downtime through powerful new diagnostic capabilities including access to runtime information and by automatically tracing failed requests.
Go to Microsoft Windows 2008 Developers Centre
Terms of Service & Acceptable Use Policy
Availability of Windows 2008/IIS7 Beta Hosting:
- The free Windows 2008/IIS7 Beta Hosting will be available till April 30, 2008.
- BNPL reserves the right to discontinue the free Windows 2008/IIS7 Beta Hosting at any time with prior notification to Beta plan customers.
- The free Windows 2008/IIS7 Beta Hosting is served as trial hosting account only for clients to test on the new Windows Server 2008 and is not suitable for any production web site.
- Every customer is only entitled for 1 Windows 2008/IIS7 Beta Hosting account.
Support for Windows 2008/IIS7 Beta Hosting:
Please raise a ticket with us . If the nature of the problem is a bug , we will then take the necessary steps in order to report to Microsoft.

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