DiscountASP.net, a Windows web hosting service offering cheap ASP.net services, has provided enterprise-class ASP.NET shared hosting and SQL Server hosting for many years. Today the company has announced technical support for Microsoft’s “Web Deployment Tool 1.0″ A.K.A. MSDeploy for their 2008 Windows Hosting offering.  The move is designed to improve the “web deployment experience” for developers using DiscountASP.net’s web hosting services. “Discount ASP” says the new MSDeploy services will allow their users to package content, configurations, and databases for deployment and archiving.

In their recent press release, DiscountASP listed the various new features of the new service. These include “delegation support”, which is supposed to allow users without administration privileges to deploy application packages to web or SQL servers via IIS manager. The features also include that at the time of application deployment synchronization only the updated files will be replaced, saving their customers’ bandwidth and time.

TakeshiEto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET.

“Over the last couple years, Microsoft has focused on improving the web deployment scenario. Last year, in partnership with Microsoft, we offered a free Web Deployment Tool hosting sandbox for developers to test and provide early feedback on MSDeploy. The launch of the release version of MSDeploy is a significant step toward hassle-free one-click application deployment. We are very pleased to have participated in this early effort and to make this technology available to our customers.”

The new offering is sure to please DiscountASP.net customers who emphasizes the ASP.net part of the domain name, as it is targeted towards clients with Windows hosting needs. MSDeploy has been around for a while, but it is hard to find technical support for it from web hosting providers. DiscountASP.net will meet the needs of a dedicated community of developers. Takeshi Eto has positioned the company well to grasp this potential market.