{"id":9890,"date":"2009-09-24T21:26:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9890"},"modified":"2009-09-24T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"websitespark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9890","title":{"rendered":"WebsiteSpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/scottgu\/archive\/2009\/09\/24\/announcing-the-websitespark-program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a new program for small web development companies (less than 10 employees) called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/web\/websitespark\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebsiteSpark<\/a>.\u00a0 Similar to BizSpark, it offers free software for 3 years for companies who develop websites for others.\u00a0 This software includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 R2  <\/li>\n<li>4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition  <\/li>\n<li>DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote\/hosted management of your servers)<\/li>\n<li>3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition  <\/li>\n<li>1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Expression Blend, Sketchflow, and Web)  <\/li>\n<li>2 licenses of Expression Web 3 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s a nice tidy some of money these company\u2019s will save.\u00a0 My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinfinity.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">employers<\/a> registered as a WebsiteSpark hosting partner today \u2013 that means customers of ours who are web developers can get free production licensing (Web Server and SQL Web Edition) for their hosting needs.\u00a0 They also get the DotNetPanel control panel \u2013 devs like to use a control panel because they\u2019re often not familiar with the ways of Windows\/IIS management for backend website management.<\/p>\n<p>Note that it\u2019s Windows Web Server 2008 <strong><em>R2<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0 These folks are getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2008\/en\/us\/2008-web.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">very latest web platform<\/a> to run on.\u00a0 This is a 64bit platform offering support for up to 32GB of RAM, 4 CPU sockets, IIS7.5, and PowerShell 2.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today announced a new program for small web development companies (less than 10 employees) called WebsiteSpark.\u00a0 Similar to BizSpark, it offers free software for 3 years for companies who develop websites for others.\u00a0 This software includes: 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 R2 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WebsiteSpark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}