Today we rolled out a new offering for Community Server: Community Server Hosted Edition.

With no download, no setup, and no configuration Community Server Hosted Edition enables organizations to create a professional web community in less than 5 minutes. We decided to start offering this about 3 months ago after hearing from a number of non-technical people/organizations that wanted to get a basic Community Server site up-and-running as quickly as possible.

Over the coming months we're going to roll-out a number of new capabilities on this site. For example, integrated email, new themes, as well as a few other tricks we have up our sleeves (including a potential free ad-enabled version).