Windows Hosting

AWD Web Hosting offers Windows hosting, a Microsoft server operating system supporting the ASP.NET community of websites and web services. Windows hosting is a preferred choice for those who whant to use other Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint. Windows hosting on AWD Web Hosting servers also supports the PHP server-side scripting language as well as ASP & ASP.NET. This adds much more potential for your Windows hosting account to build websites and web applications that are cross compatible with other PHP applications.

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Windows Hosting Plans

Here is a brief look at our three Windows hosting plans...

Windows Hosting Guide

Standard Windows Hosting is great for blogs and other open source CMS systems such as Joomla! & WordPress - just two of the free software applications included in this plan! This plan is also ideal for windows web application developers!

Business Windows Hosting is tailored for e-commerce usage with unlimited resources to keep your business running! This plan comes with a secure server, shopping carts & CMS's to get you up and running quickly!

Windows hosting - is it right for me?

Windows hosting is a very fast and powerful web hosting platform from Microsoft. Windows hosting is required for ASP & ASP.NET websites/developers. Windows hosting also opens up other Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight. If you don't require any Microsoft specific technologies and would rather use PHP & MySQL for your website apllications then have look at our Linux hosting plans.

As mentioned above, Windows hosting is the preferred choice for web developers utilizing the Microsoft family of web technologies such asASP & ASP.NET. ASP or ASP.NET coupled with other Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight, SharePoint and MSSQL gives Windows web application developers the resources to build extremely rich web applications.

Windows hosting for non-technical users

Windows hosting is perfect for non-technical users too! AWD Web Hosting offers a FREE Website Builder that runs on our Standard and Business Windows hosting plans. No technical expertise is required at all but you will get all the benefits of Windows hosting as in the power & reliability Windows hosting offers.

I'm new to programming, should I choose Windows hosting?

If you are new to or studying ASP.NET server-side programming or perhaps want to get involved with Silverlight, JavaScript, HTML & CSS scripting then Windows hosting is for you. It is fast, reliable and AWD Web Hosting offers a whole bunch of free Windows hosting one-click install apps and utilities to help get you started with your Windows hosting account. It would be worth keeping an eye on our 'useful development links' page located over on our main website for useful resources that could help develop your programming skills.