ASP.NET hosting provider DiscountASP.net has launched Microsoft Windows 2012 Hosting in their US-based data center.

The Windows 2012 hosting platform includes IIS 8.0, support for ASP.NET 4.5, MVC 4 and Entity Framework 5, WebSockets and node.js, as well as dynamic IP restriction. The new platform is also compatibile with Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio Express 2012.

“DiscountASP.NET is committed to making the latest Microsoft Web Stack available on our hosting platform for Microsoft developers as quickly as possible,” said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. “Our goal is to provide developers with a playground of technology options so they can develop and run their next-generation modern web applications.”

The company indicated that Windows 2012 will soon be supported in its European data center in the near future.