Pasadena, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 5, 2006 - ASP.NET and SQL hosting firm, DiscountASP.NET, has released its beta hosting on the latest Microsoft Windows server, ''Longhorn'' and Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7).

Microsoft IIS7 beta hosting is available at no cost to all DiscountASP.NET customers and DiscountASP.NET customers can enable their IIS7 Beta Hosting account instantly via their Hosting Control Panel. This IIS7 beta hosting program will continue until the final version of IIS7 is officially released.

Brian Goldfarb, Group Product Manager of the Web Platform Tools group at Microsoft Corp. explained, ''Microsoft is pleased to see DiscountASP.NET offer hosting for IIS7. DiscountASP.NET’s customers will love IIS 7 because it provides them a secure, reliable, easy to manage platform for both development and hosting of web applications and Web services.''

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET added, ''DiscountASP.NET is committed to innovation and being an early adopter of Microsoft technology. We want to provide our Web hosting customers with the opportunity to get a head start in experimenting with IIS 7.0 in a hosted environment.''

DiscountASP.NET is an award-winning provider of Microsoft Windows-based shared hosting, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET web hosting and SQL database hosting. DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and featured ASP.NET Host in the Microsoft ASP.NET Hosting Advantage Program. The DiscountASP.NET web hosting plan includes instant activation, access to custom-built ASP.NET-powered control panels, web hosting on secure and reliable ASP.NET platforms where each website is hosted in its own isolated application pool, and access to many free ASP and ASP.NET components.

To learn more about Microsoft IIS 7.0, please visit: www.iis.net.

For more information about DiscountASP.NET, please visit: www.discountasp.net.