DiscountASP.NET Unveils Microsoft Manager Extensions

Phoenix, Arizona - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 20, 2008 - Microsoft DBManager and AmdinPack IIS Manager UI extensions in public beta for customers, have debuted at advanced ASP.NET hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET.

Along with the launch of Windows 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7), Microsoft introduced IIS Manager, a new IIS tool which provides users with a familiar user interface to remotely manage IIS7 server configurations. Using IIS Manager, DiscountASP.NET customers can view settings and manipulate their web.config files for features that have been delegated to them.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ''A key feature with IIS7 webhosting is the ability to delegate website configurations to our customers. One of our driving principles is to give our customers maximum control over their hosting environment, so we chose to implement IIS feature delegation on our Windows 2008 shared hosting platform.''

DiscountASP.NET introduces the following Microsoft IIS Manager UI extensions:

ASP.NET Authorization Rules UI: This tool allows customers to configure ASP.NET authorization settings.

ASP.NET Error Page UI: This tool allows customers to configure ASP.NET custom error settings.

Request Filtering UI: This tool allows customers to configure IIS request filtering module settings.

DBManager: This tool allows customers to perform basic database administration and queries.

Takeshi Eto noted, ''Microsoft has been releasing new IIS Manager UI extensions and we wanted to be among the first hosts to make them available in a live environment and give our customers the opportunity to contribute important feedback to help improve these new tools. Our customers can enable access to all or a subset of the additional IIS Manager UI extensions through their hosting control panel.''

Recently, the company adopted the SmarterStats Web Log Analytics reporting, for all of its customers. SmarterStats provides an in-depth understanding of keywords and visitor navigation trends with on-demand Website statistics, custom reports, data mining, geographic mapping, among other applications.



SmarterStats is designed for hosting companies and Webmasters that want to cost-effectively deliver relevant, accurate, and detailed statistics to their customers. It provides customers with the ability to measure their Website performance and marketing results without requiring them to spend time and money putting scripts and code in their sites like some competing solutions (e.g., Google Analytics).



SmarterStats also has several installation configurations which measure statistics across multiple Windows and Linux servers on local or remote networks, all from one central SmarterStats server.



Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology-management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona. SmarterTools builds a Windows Mail Server, Customer Service Software, and Web Log Analytics reporting tool that simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in over 100 countries.



DiscountASP.NET provides Microsoft Windows hosting, as a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. DiscountASP.NET is one of the first hosts to offer Windows 2008 shared hosting and was recently voted Best ASP.NET Hosting Service in the asp.netPRO Magazine 2008 Readers' Choice poll for the fourth consecutive year. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting.



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