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Free Microsoft web hosting for UK students Another primarily UK-biased post for which I apologise for; this is old news but still very much valid.

Amazon takes its RDS out of beta, offers Oracle and SQL Server hosting To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime.