Free Hosting Offer from MS, WebFusion

In providing an offer of free Web hosting for university students in the United Kingdom, Software giant Microsoft and UK Web hosting provider WebFusion have partnered, it was announced on Thursday.

In presenting them with all-inclusive Web hosting to create online applications and websites to support their studies, the companies say that the service frees students from a university’s local area network.

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, which run on Windows Server 2008 beta, provide 500MB of Web space and 2GB of bandwidth per month. WebFusion also provides one SQL 2005 database, support and application development platforms including FTP access, ASP classic and ASP.Net 3.5, and PHP under FastCGI.

William Coleman, Web platform architect evangelist at Microsoft stated “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 locationOur 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.”

Named Hyper-V, Microsoft delivered the public beta of its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology last month.

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