14 DAY TRIAL // Web developers that decide to take advantage of WebMatrix for their web projects now have a list with over 350 companies to choose from for their hosting needs, all WebMatrix Spotlight Partners. While the Redmond company is providing a comprehensive collection of tools designed to allow web developers to build, customize and publish websites, it does not provide hosting services.
Instead, the software giant points web devs to a range of firms that are ready to accommodate their projects.
“Already, 350+ Hosters have become a WebMatrix spotlight partner and are being featured in the Microsoft Web Hosting Gallery, since its launch, January 14th, 2011,” revealed Microsoft’s M. Omer Siddiqui.
Developers need only to check out the Microsoft Web Hosting Gallery, and find a variety of hosting providers that provide servers running Microsoft technologies for WebMatrix sites, but not only.
“Specifically, the technology requirements needed to obtain the “Spotlight” badge are: SQL Server 2008, ASP.NET 4.0, MVC 2.0, URL Rewrite, IIS Remote Management, Web Deploy, WebPI pre-installed (valid only for Virtual or Dedicated hosting offers).
“In the future, Web Matrix publishing test will also be required. In addition to the technology requirements, an offer also needs to provide 99.9% uptime and 24/7 support guarantee in order to be eligible for the “Spotlight” badge,” Microsoft revealed.
“The requirements will be updated from time to time as new technologies become available (at which time, offers which had “Spotlight” status may lose their eligibility). This is to ensure that your customers have a great experience using the latest Microsoft technologies,” the company promised
WebMatrix was released on January 13th, 2010 and is available free of charge to developers looking to streamline their web-based projects.
With WebMatrix, devs can build their sites line by line via a single unified interface which centralizes development tasks.
However, the solution can also be leveraged in the context of projects that involve existing web apps such as WordPress, Joomla or Drupal, to give just a few examples.