Windows hosting services can host your websites and apps on dedicated Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET or .NET. In fact, they can even run different products like Exchange or Microsoft SQL Server.

This is especially important because most third-party web hosting services run on Linux servers, and it's easy to see why: the operating system is fast, reliable, secure and free. Plus, it has an ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

It has been over three years since Amazon Web Services introduced its Relational Database Service (RDS). But until now, RDS has ostensibly been in “beta”—available only to a subset of customers. This ...

Microsoft is making a commitment to winning the hosting provider market with its Hyper-V virtualization platform. This has been an area that Parallels and Xen have been championing for quite some time ...