Microsoft customers worldwide can now discover and use DotNest, a fully managed website hosting platform, through Microsoft Marketplace, accessing trusted solutions that accelerate innovation and business transformation with unified integration across Microsoft productsBudapest, Hungary — June 23, 2026 — Lombiq Technologies today announced the availability of DotNest, a fully managed content management and website hosting platform, in the Microsoft Marketplace, the unified online destination for customers to buy trusted cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet their business needs. DotNest customers can now discover and deploy trusted solutions through Microsoft Marketplace, with smooth integration and streamlined management across Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products.DotNest is the only fully managed hosting service for Orchard Core, the open-source, modular content management system (CMS) framework built on ASP.NET Core. Built and operated by Lombiq Technologies, a major contributor to the Orchard project for more than a decade, DotNest brings enterprise-grade Orchard Core hosting to organizations without the complexity of running their own infrastructure. Today, DotNest powers more than 6,000 websites worldwide.DotNest delivers Orchard Core as a fully managed SaaS on Microsoft Azure, removing the infrastructure burden of server management, security patching, and version upgrades. Now available in the Microsoft Marketplace, organizations can procure DotNest directly through their existing Azure subscription and manage their websites from the Azure Portal alongside their other cloud resources. Key capabilities include:Zero technical maintenance: Hosting, monitoring, and platform updates are handled automatically so teams can focus on building, not operating.Native Azure integration: Sites are provisioned and managed from the Azure Portal, backed by Azure security, point-in-time backups, HTTPS, and geo-redundant storage.Complete design freedom: Full Orchard Core customization is preserved, with automatic theme deployment from source control and support for custom content types and modules.Built-in ecommerce: Organizations can launch online stores using the integrated Orchard Core Commerce suite without additional platform setup.Enterprise performance: Optimized infrastructure with CDN, caching, Elasticsearch, and email delivery requires no infrastructure configuration from the customer.GDPR compliance: DotNest is compliant out of the box with privacy-focused defaults suited for EU organizations.The offering is designed for IT teams looking to reduce infrastructure overhead, marketing teams that want to launch and update web properties without depending on development cycles, and digital agencies that prefer to focus on customization rather than operations. "Bringing DotNest to the Microsoft Marketplace is a natural step for us,” said Zoltán Lehóczky, Co-Founder and managing director of Lombiq Technologies. “We have spent over ten years building DotNest and contributing to Orchard Core itself. Listing in the Microsoft Marketplace means any Microsoft customer can now provision a fully managed Orchard Core site in minutes, using the same Azure subscription they already rely on for everything else, no separate procurement, no infrastructure work, and no compromise on the flexibility of the open-source platform.” “Microsoft Marketplace helps organizations and partners move faster, work smarter, and grow by connecting them with the right solutions—all in one trusted place,” said Cyril Belikoff, vice president, Microsoft Azure Product Marketing. “We’re happy to welcome Lombiq Technologies’ DotNest solution to the growing Microsoft Marketplace ecosystem.” Microsoft Marketplace is a single destination to find, try, and buy trusted cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business objectives. Choose from a growing collection of solutions tailored to your unique needs, available both in Marketplace and directly within Microsoft products. DotNest is available now in the Microsoft Marketplace at https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/saas/lombiq.dotnest-production. To learn more about DotNest, visit https://dotnest.com. Lombiq Technologies is a software, training, and services company focused on web development with open Microsoft technologies, predominantly the Orchard Core content management system. With more than a decade of contributions to the Orchard Core ecosystem, Lombiq provides custom development, training, consulting, and hosting services to clients worldwide. The company is the team behind DotNest, the only Orchard Core SaaS. Learn more at https://lombiq.com. For more information, press only: Lombiq Crew, Lombiq Technologies, [email protected]

Microsoft is not a company that needs introduction - but one that needed Orchard training. More specifically the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (MCIO) team (who supply the infrastructure for all Microsoft divisions, including Windows, Bing or even Azure) reached out to us: before starting a big Orchard project they wanted to have some expert help. After we became Microsoft suppliers we conducted a few days of what was an online intensive training for the MCIO team. They are now familiar with Orchard's built in features and everything a beginner Orchard developer needs to know. The only problem is that we won't see what they are building - because it will be an internal portal, just for Microsoft employee eyes.

As it happens Lombiq got to be part of the Microsoft Supplier Program - that means Microsoft is now Lombiq's customer! We actually already had our first project with one of the Microsoft teams, stay tuned for more info.

Recently we were invited by Microsoft to join the Azure Websites Customer Advisory Board, a group of selected IT professionals working daily with Azure, helping shape the platform. Representatives from the widely used .NET web systems Sitecore, DNN and Umbraco are also part of Azure CABs. This way we'll be able to contribute to enhance the Azure experience that many Orchard developers face daily too. The CAB membership will allow us to make DotNest, the Orchard SaaS better utilize Azure and thus continue to improve as an Orchard-based CMS as a Service platform. Orchard now has the strongest presence among all content management frameworks in the Azure Websites CAB: the two founders of Lombiq, Zoltán and Benedek became members and Sebastien Ros from Microsoft, the lead developer of Orchard takes part on the CAB meetings too. Update as of May, 2015: Microsoft Customer Advisory Boards were converted into what is now Azure Advisors. Lombiq's membership was transferred, so we're now part of Azure Advisors.

You may already know that Zoltán and Benedek were among the presenters at this year's Orchard Harvest conference in Seattle too. At the beginning of the session we announced the results of the Spring Harvest Challenge and then we continued with our talk about how we built and maintain DotNest, the Orchard CMS SaaS: 0:00:00 - 0:18:30 : Spring Harvest Challenge announcement 0:18:30 - 0:37:15 : Capabilities and features of DotNest by Zoltán 0:37:15 - 1:05:26 : Deployment and maintenance of DotNest by Benedek