UK Web Hosting: Windows

Many UK web hosting companies will provide specialized hosting for Windows, Silverlight and .net. If you are a Visual Studio fanatic, it makes a lot of sense to select one of these specialized Windows based companies instead of signing up for a generic one. In addition, these companies host IIS servers, which are much easier to configure than the corresponding Linux based Apache servers. These companies can provide you with SSH connection to your server, a remote desktop connection to the server or even provide a VNC connection to the server. Since Microsoft is very diligent with their patches, it is the job of these companies to make sure that their servers are regularly patched and they are not attacked by anything malicious. These companies also maintain high levels of availability, security and integrity of the servers. They deploy software like cluster software, firewalls, NIDS, Anti-virus software and disk defragmenters to make sure that the server runs smoothly every day of every month of every year.