Microsoft recently announced a new edition of Windows Server, aimed at customers providing web hosting and web applications. For several years there has been Windows Server 2003 Web Edition, which is a crippled version of Windows Server with a lower price tag for offering simple web server functions. Realizing that this was not a compelling offer for many web-centric companies considering a Microsoft hosting platform, they have created Windows Server 2003 Web Edition Enhanced.

The big changes in Web Edition Enhanced over the plain old Web Edition are higher limits on physical resources and the capability to install SQL Server. Web Edition allows a maximum of 2 CPUs while Enhanced ups that to 4, as well as increasing the max RAM from 2GB in Web Edition to 4GB in Enhanced. Keeping with a web-server focus, Enhanced cannot be an Active Directory controller or print server.

As a Microsoft Hosting Partner, we are now offering Server 2003 Web Edition Enhanced. Feel free to contact us for info.

It looks like we missed announcing this earlier. Anyways, Tranquil Hosting is now an official RedHat hosting partner!

RedHat is the premiere Linux distributor and software company on this side of the globe. The company is headquartered just a few miles away from us in Raleigh, with 300 employees at NC State University’s Centennial Campus. RedHat’s flagship Linux distribution, RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux) is a popular choice for the web hosting industry due to its stability and proven performance handling large, dynamic website. RedHat also backs Fedora Project, a freely available Linux distro which was derived from RedHat’s original distro. Developments from Fedora are used to build the RHEL platform.

As a RedHat Hosting Partner, we have access to other RedHat products as well and can leverage RedHat software to better build solutions for our customers. Deployments with RHEL in hosting environments range from intense Web serving to large database and application servers.