News and Press Releases

11 October 2009

Web Werks is now a Microsoft WebsiteSpark Network Hosting Partner

Microsoft® WebsiteSparkTM helps professional Web Designers and Developers to drive new business opportunities through connections with partners and customers around the world. By selecting Web Werks as your Hosting Partner, you can get nominated for the WebsiteSpark program, and also get the most flexible and easy to use hosting infrastructure to run your client web sites and applications on. WebsiteSpark™ provides you software, tools, support and training that helps enable you to provide your customers with competitively priced hosting solutions on the Windows Web platform. And best of all -- there are NO up-front costs!

Do You Qualify?

There are simple eligibility requirements to quailfy for Web Werks Hosting with Microsoft WebsiteSpark. To Qualify you must:

• be a professional firm whose primary business is providing web development and design services for your customers.
• have less than 10 employees (including owners, employees, and contractors)

In addition, you must be willing to:

• Develop and deploy at least one new Web site using Microsoft tools and servers within six months after enrollment, and report it and other new sites to Microsoft.
• If not already a member, enroll in the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN, formerly known as the Microsoft Partner Program) as part of program participation.

What you Get ?

For design, development, testing and demonstration of new websites – :

• Visual Studio® 2008 Professional

• Expression® Web 3 (2 user licenses)

• Expression® Studio 3 (1 user license)

• Windows® Web Server 2008 R2

• SQL Server® 2008 Web Edition

For production use – that is, to deploy and host new websites developed using Program software – using a total of up to four processors per Web design and development company, of the following (physical or virtual) dedicated servers:

• Windows® Web Server 2008 R2

• SQL Server® 2008 Web Edition

Deployments may be on 4 servers or VMs of 1processor each, on 2 servers or VMs of 2 processors each, or on 1 server or VM of 4-processors.

• Get Business Opportunities: Get opportunities to expand your customer base and drive new business through showcasing your capabilities and connecting with partners, by featuring your talents in Microsoft marketing and business networking vehicles.
• Get Support and Training - benefits include:
  • 2 professional support incidents
  • Free online training Managed newsgroups on MSDN (a community of over six million developers) and other Microsoft online properties
  •  Access to broad community support through connections with Network Partners, Hosting Partners and peers with complementary services and technologies

To join the program, you need a nomination from a WebsiteSpark Hosting Partner. Don't have a nomination? No problem—just fill out the Quick Contact Form and Web Werks can help you build your Web development business. To know more see the FAQ

Nikhil Rathi, MD of Web Werks says, “These technologies which include Microsoft Windows Web Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Expression and Microsoft SQL Server Web edition, as well as the support and training is unique, we offer web site hosting on the Microsoft Web Platform.” He further adds, “the public availability of Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a leap forward in making the Microsoft Web Platform more accessible to developers and designers around the world. We hope to provide a platform using our Internet DataCenters in US and Mumbai India. All our services including Dedicated Servers, Colocation and VPS will be available for use in this program”