Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - April 3, 2008 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has entered into a partnership with vendor of advanced ASP.NET user interface components and .NET reporting solutions, Telerik.

Takeshi Eto, Vice President of Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ”We specialize in ASP.NET hosting and are always interested in partnering with the vendors that provide our customers with the most useful tools that make their life easier and their sites stand out. Telerik is a well known leader in UI components for rich user experiences.”

Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a $50 discount on Telerik RadControls and Reporting solutions. Telerik users can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan.

Nadia Terzieva, VP Business Development at Telerik remarked, ”The DiscountASP.NET and Telerik partnership is a natural fit. DiscountASP.NET is focused on offering advanced ASP.NET hosting for developers and we provide the tools that take their web applications to the next level.” Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - March 4, 2008 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has debuted the integration of Microsoft Windows 2008 Hosting, on its enterprise-class shared hosting infrastructure.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ”DiscountASP.NET is committed to innovation and being a first mover in the adoption of new Microsoft technology in the Windows shared hosting niche. With our launch of Windows 2008 hosting, we are excited to provide our customers with the most cutting-edge hosting environment so they can create and deploy next-generation web applications.”

The new Windows 2008 hosting platform includes many new enhancements, including:

1. Windows Server 2008 Standard edition
2. Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7)
3. FTP 7 (including FTP over SSL)
4. PHP5
5. Trust Level Control
6. Microsoft IIS Manager access

DiscountASP.NET introduces two new Control Panel tools for IIS7 hosting management. Customers can use the Application Pool Pipeline Mode chooser tool to switch between Classic and Integrated mode. In addition, a new Microsoft IIS Manager Permission tool is introduced allowing customers to manage the users that can have IIS 7 Manager access privileges. Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - February 7, 2008 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has debuted the integration of SmarterMail API, into its open control panel framework, to provide customers with the ability to develop web, desktop, or mobile applications that interface directly with the web hosting account.

With the SmarterMail API integration, DiscountASP.NET customers can now retrieve email account lists, modify passwords, and create/delete email accounts through web services without accessing the hosting control panel or the SmarterMail webmail client. DiscountASP.NET customers can activate access to the API library via their control panel and are assigned a unique Authentication Key. In addition, a Sandbox Key is provided so customers can test their applications without the risk of making changes to their hosting account.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ”SmarterTools already provides powerful APIs out-of-the-box with their SmarterMail product, so naturally we wanted to integrate them within our Open Control Panel framework. Our vision is to continue to expand the Control Panel API and offer our customers the choice and flexibility to manage their hosting presence either using our hosted control panel application or through web services and customized user-driven solutions.” Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - December 4, 2007 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has debuted the beta launch of Microsoft CardSpace integration, into its ASP.NET web hosting control panel.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”The Control Panel CardSpace integration serves two main purposes. First, especially with the recent introduction of .NET 3.5 hosting, we wanted to demonstrate the use of new .NET 3.x technology. Second, we wanted to give our customers the opportunity to provide feedback on CardSpace during this early stage as Microsoft works toward delivering on their vision for an Identity Metasystem.”

With the new addition, using the traditional username and password login access, customers with Internet Explorer 7 and CardSpace on their local computer can use personal Information Cards for password-free login to their hosting control panel.

Microsoft introduced Windows CardSpace with the .NET Framework 3.0 release. CardSpace replaces the traditional username and password authentication with tools that help users better manage their digital identities while shielding them from various forms of identity attacks, such as phishing or brute force password attacks. Users can maintain a set of personal digital identities in the form of visual Information Cards, which can be self-issued or issued by an identity provider. Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 6, 2007 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has partnered with video tutorial resource, TrainingSpot.com,
sister site of LearnVisualStudio.NET, specializing in video tutorials for SQL, SQL Reporting Service, SharePoint, and BizTalk.

Takeshi Eto, Vice President of Marketing, DiscountASP.NET noted, ”We understand the importance for developers to continuously update their technical skills. TrainingSpot.com is a great new service to access SQL tutorial videos. And being the companion site for LearnVisualStudio.NET, we know that the training content will be of the highest quality.”

Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive free videos and a 20% discount on TrainingSpot.com lifetime subscription fees to access the entire tutorial library. TrainingSpot users can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan. Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - October 30, 2007 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has entered into a partnership with ASP.NET web and intranet solution provider, Xigla Software.

Under the new partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a 20% discount on Xigla Software .NET applications. Xigla Software users may also receive six months of free web hosting for the first year of the Base ASP.NET hosting annual plan.

Takeshi Eto, Vice President of Marketing, DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”We are always interested in partnering with companies with great .NET applications. We are thrilled to partner with Xigla Software who develops very robust and useful .NET applications.”

Juan Arbelaez, Software Architect of Xigla Software offered, ”We wanted to partner with a top-notch ASP.NET web hosting company. Not only did we partner with DiscountASP.NET, we chose them to host our new xigla.tv website.” Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 23, 2007 -
Advanced ASP.NET hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has expanded its open control panel initiative, with SQL Database Backup API, designed to enable customers to backup SQL databases.

The new SQL Backup API is part of DiscountASP.NET’s Open Control Panel Initiative, whose goal is to offer an open hosting system framework which provides customers with maximum control over their hosting presence management.

In 2006, to support this initiative, DiscountASP.NET introduced an ASP.NET web service API library which customers can use to develop their own web, desktop, or mobile applications that interface directly with their web hosting account. In the first phase, DiscountASP.NET exposed methods to retrieve resource usage information, and manage some IIS functions, such as recycling their application pool. Today, DiscountASP.NET expose methods for customers to backup their SQL 2005 and SQL 2000 databases. Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - October 16, 2007 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has entered into a new partnership with SmarterMail Enterprise Services, to provide the email application to its entire customer base.

By switching to SmarterMail 4.x, DiscountASP.NET customers gain enterprise-level features, including:

• Up to 99% spam-blocking
• Antivirus protection
• Calendars, tasks, contacts, and notes with full-featured collaboration
• Synchronization with MS Outlook, SmartPhones, and Pocket PC
• Unrivaled stability
• Content Filtering
• Advanced AJAX Web Interface allowing full-featured access from anywhere at anytime

Takeshi Eto, VP of Marketing at DiscountASP.NET commented, ”We offer our customers only the most advanced products and services and SmarterMail software fits the bill on all counts. SmarterMail is the market leader in spam protection, stability, and features. It’s just what our customers need to communicate effectively and to grow their businesses.” Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - October 3, 2007 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has entered into a partnership with ASP.NET 2.0 recurring billing and invoice solution, DotNetInvoice.com.

Takeshi Eto, Vice President of Marketing at DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”While traditional ecommerce shopping cart solutions are great for sites selling tangible goods, we saw an ecommerce need for sites that focus on services that are billed on a recurring basis. The DotNetInvoice application is an invoicing solution fills that need.”

Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a $40 discount on the DotNetInvoice application. DotNetInvoice.com users can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan. Read more of this news »

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - September 19, 2007 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has launched an upgraded .NET 3.5 Framework Hosting Beta Program, as an enhanced version of its IIS7 hosting beta program.

This latest Microsoft Windows 2008 Server (Longhorn) and Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) application, is available to all DiscountASP.NET customers at no additional cost.

.NET Framework 3.5 expands on the previous versions, with Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and new tools for developers to simplify building applications using Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.

Takeshi Eto, VP marketing at DiscountASP.NET remarked, ”DiscountASP.NET is committed to innovation in the ASP.NET hosting niche and being an early adopter for new .NET technology. Now, our customers can begin experimenting with .NET Framework 3.5 in a live hosted environment. We are also excited to offer our customers with some features that they have been asking for - like LINQ and FastCGI.” Read more of this news »