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Advanced Windows Server 2003 Hosting Platform

Windows server 2003 hosting offers the most advanced hosting system in the industry today. Windows hosting platform now runs on Windows Server 2003 and Internet Information Server 6.0.

Key Benefits and Improvements in Windows Server 2003

* Improved reliability
* Improved security
* Improved speed
* Native integration of .NET Framework 1.1
* Native support for Common Language Runtime (CLR)
* ASP.NET advanced compilation
* Enhanced application isolation
* Native XML Web Services Support
* Improved command line management

Internet Information Server 6.0

Internet Information Server 6.0 Windows.NET Server 2003 comes bundled with Internet Information Server 6.0. IIS6 is more reliable and provides a more secure web application infrastructure.

Key Benefits and Improvements in Internet Information Server 6.0

* ASP.NET is natively integrated with IIS6
* Server health monitoring
* Automatic process recycling
* Easier server management
* Integrated application hosting environment for rapid application development
* Increased security
* Fault tolerant process architecture
* Rapid fail protection

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Follow the below mentioned steps to configure MS SQL database in Microsoft enterprise manager:

1) Open the “Client Network Utility”.
2) Click on “General” Tab.
3) Select TCP/IP from the “Enabled protocols by order” List.
4) Click “Properties” button.
5) No change with the “Default Port”
6) Click OK.
7) Click “Apply” button.
Click on “Alias” tab.
9) Click on “Add” button.
10) Enter any suitable name in “Server alias” box.
11) Select option “TCP/IP”
12) In the Server name field enter your MS SQL server IP address
13) If option “Dynamically determine port” is checked then uncheck it.
14) In “Port number” field enter value 1433
15) Click OK.
16) Click “Apply” button.
17) Click OK.

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If you have an SQL database set up with your web host, a useful tip to know is how to connect to your SQL database via Enterprise Manager. The advantage of knowing how to do this is that you will be able to manage your SQL Server database via Enterprise Manager over TCP/IP, yourself.

You can obtain Enterprise Manager by downloading MSDE (Microsoft Data Engine) from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/msde/default.asp.

Before creating the connection to your SQL database ensure your web host has created an SQL user for you and also make sure you know the IP Address of the server your SQL database is located on.

When creating an SQL connection using SQL Server you will need to:

Configure the server alias
-Create the SQL connection.
-Configure the Server alias
-Open SQL Server Client Network Utility.
-When Client Network Utility opens, click on the Alias tab.
-Click on the Add button.
-In the Server Alias text box enter a name for your SQL connection.
-Select TCP/IP under Network libraries
-Enter the IP address of the Server your SQL database is located on, in the Server name text box.
-Click on the OK button.
-Your Server alias will now be configured, click on the Apply button.
-Click on the OK button.

Create Connection
-Open SQL Server Enterprise Manager
-When Enterprise Manager opens, right click SQL Server Group and select New SQL Server Registration.
-The Register SQL Server wizard will now open.
-Click on the Next button.
-From the Available Servers drop down menu, select the server alias you created earlier.
-Click on the Add button.
The server should now be listed under Added servers, click on the Next button.
When the next dialog box appears select ‘The SQL Server login information that was assigned to me by the system administrator’ (see above).
-Click on the Next button.
-Enter your Login name and Password – this will be used every time you connect to your SQL server.
-Click on the Next button.
-Ensure that ‘Add the SQL Server(s) to an existing SQL Server group’ is selected and ‘SQL Server Group’ is selected for Group name.
-Click on the Next button.
-When the next dialog box opens you can click on the Finish button.
Your SQL Connection will now be created.

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When it comes to windows web hosting, the web site hosting advisor sees more and more people using Windows as their hosting platform. Tools that are used in web applications on the Windows platform are becoming more common place in the web design market place.

Microsoft’s entry in Windows web hosting came with the introduction of IIS (Internet Information Server). With IIS, Microsoft includes programs for building and administrating web sites. It also has a search engine and support for writing web-based applications that access Windows databases like Microsoft Access and SQL Server.

Databases SQL Server and MYSQL are relational in nature. They allow optimized communication with your web site for quick retrieval of information. Microsoft Access database doesn’t offer the processing power of the other types of database options.

Scripting Languages For Windows Web Hosting

When it comes to writing CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts with Windows web hosting, the various options are ASP, ASP.NET, and PHP. Both ASP and ASP.NET are features of Microsoft IIS. Since these are server-side scripts building a HTML page, they can be delivered to any browser.

ASP.NET also features server controls that can seperate code from content, which allows WYSIWYG capability when editing web pages. It also supports code written in compiled languages such as Visual Basic.

Pre-made Code

In Windows web hosting there are many pre-made programs written for web servers. On the internet there are a number of web sites that cater to Windows web site development that you can check out.

These pre-made programs will vary in functionality and price; but they can range from free small components to a very expensive full-blown enterprise application.

Ever since Microsoft’s entry into the internet server market with IIS, Windows web hosting has become more appealing. In the web design market place, more and more people are opting for Windows as their hosting platform.

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SQL Server Express is free (maybe because of its limited functionality. Still, it is a handy alternative compared to MSAccess to cater for large database):

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is the next version of MSDE and is a free, easy-to-use, lightweight, and embeddable version of SQL Server 2005. Free to download, free to redistribute, free to embed, and easy for new developers to use immediately, SQL Server Express includes powerful features such as SQL Server Management Studio Express, for easily managing a database.

SQL Express actually uses the same database engine as it’s bigger brothers with the main limitation that it can only address 1 GB RAM. Not such a big limitation unless you are trying to run thousands of databases or Ebay off it. Express also has Full Text Search included now. Basically MS wanted to take care of the MySQL Open Source market.

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The Internet has substantially increased the demand in SQL server hosting as more and more companies make their database sites more complex willing it to be available to their customers, vendors and employees at any time. Unfortunately trying to find a SQL server hosting, especially cheap and at the same time reliable SQL hosting provider, can be very difficult task.

Many web hosting providers offer several types of database hosting. The main question is: what type of database are you looking to host?

Here are several kinds of providers and the types of databases they support. MySQL hosting and SQL hosting are the two main types of databases. MySQL is for the Linux hosting or unix hosting customers, while SQL server hosting is for the Windows hosting admirers. SQL hosting services are web hosting services that support SQL, a standard interactive programming language for getting information from database

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