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MaximumASP Posts Developer Playground

Hosting provider provides free server space and access to test ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

Partners and their development staff looking to experiment with the capabilities of ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 can find a playground with a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

MaximumASP, the Louisville, Ky.-based company that was named Microsoft's 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year, is offering free hosted beta accounts on its new MaxESP platform. According to MaximumASP, beta users can create a Web site and test it in a scalable environment.

MaximumASP puts beta users on Windows Server 2008 R2/IIS 7.5 with .NET Framework 4 Beta 2. Accounts include 1 GB of disk space, a 50 MB SQL Server 2008 database, MS Deploy Access and FTP over SSL Access.

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