Web hosting provider QualiSpace (http://www.qualispace.com) is launching free Windows Server 2008 beta hosting, it was announced recently. The company, who is also an ICANN accredited domain registrar, is offering the hosting with the PLESK control panel.

Windows Server 2008 hosting with PLESK offers a number of new and improved features, the company has suggesed. These include improved performance and security, better troubleshooting and error debugging. In addition, it offers full PHP integration with FastCGI, Classic ASP, Tomcat 5.5.4, a backup/restore facility, web statistics, FTP statistics, hot link protection, PHP 4.4.7 and 5.2.1 with FastCGI, MS SQL 2005/MySQL 5.0.45, 10 GB Data Transfer, 1 GB Disk Space and Internet Information Service (IIS) 7.0.

“We came up with the idea of launching Windows 2008 Beta Hosting as we believe in providing our customers with the most up-to-date technology, explained QualiSpace Director and Co-founder, Ashish Shah. “I am of the opinion that with the introduction of Windows 2008 Beta Hosting our customers can get well acquainted with the features of Windows 2008 server.”

QualiSpace was established in 2001 and is based in India with an independent data center in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The company provides dedicated servers, shared hosting and domain name registration. QualiSpace is backed by a dedicated team of technical experts providing ongoing customer service. The company’s free Windows 2008 Beta Hosting plan will be available until the official Microsoft release (expected February 27, 2007).