Web Hosting Question

[irasmith]

I have started looking at web hosting for .net, just the initial stages to see what is out there and what type of pricing there is.

 

I came across something that I'm a little puzzled about and maybe some of you who are more experienced than I can enlighten me.

 

One place I came across made special note that their hosting service allowed you to handle VS.NET projects.

 

I thought that whatever you did in VS.NET became compiled to whatever type you opted be it a class library or whatever, and that it would work accordingly in a .NET environment.

 

So I am a bit confused by the special billing the hosting provider was providing VS.NET.

 

Just seeking knowledge and understanding at this point and hopefully some of you can help out.

[samsmithnz]

I think they are just saying that they have 'development' servers with the VS.NET debug components, so that you can develop on their servers. I just hope they have production servers too...

[iebidan]

Well, if you look for a good webhosting you can try

 

http://www.interland.com

 

They have really cheap web hosting there, I have a website with them and I can recommend'em, good service, support and pricing

[tate]

I have been using discountAsp.net as a host and have found them to be very helpful. Technical support is pretty prompt and accurate.

[samsmithnz]

So how much do you guys pay and what do you get for that?

[Robby]

What Sam said about developing on their server is true, however most times you cannot Step-Through whilst on a remote server.

 

iebidan, I was with InterLand for about two years and I wasn't very happy with their service.

 

I am curently with CrystalTech and this is some of the best service you can get. I'll get a reply to a ticket within minutes (at night or on the weekend). Their control panel gives you most any config capablity so you rarely need to request any help.

[iebidan]

50 bucks everymonth for

300 Mb storage

.NET support (ASPX, webservices, etc)

email accounts

Administrative panel

Old ASP support

50 or 75 (can't remember) Mb on a SQL Server database

SSL

ODBC connections

------and much more

[Denaes]

I have Brinkster:

 

15.95 a month

200mb webspace

10gb datatransfer

25 pop3 email accounts (web based AND computer based)

SQL Server (15 megs) is 15 bucks a month more

FTP

ASP 3.0

25+ ASP Componants

ASP.Net

.Net Mobile Toolkit

WAP Enabled

Flash Enabled

SSI

ADO 2.6

MS Access

 

Its the best I've seen if you don't want to use SQL Server 2000 for its price. Awesome support.

 

This is their bottom teir, right above free hosting with no ads, which also supports ASP.Net!!

 

If you're using SQL Server, it might make more sense to get a higher tier.

 

This is more than I'll be using for quite a while until I get into SQL Server a bit more.

[Robby]

Wow, I thought I was paying a lot at CrystalTech, $27.00/month get this:

 

� 25GB Monthly Bandwidth

� 400 MB Disk Space

� 250 Email Accounts

� Unlimited FTP Accounts

� 8 Extra Domains

� Shared SSL Included

� 10 Security Usernames

� Microsoft Index Server

� PHP, Perl, XML, WinCGI & CGI-BIN

� ASP/ASP.NET, ColdFusion 5, or ColdFusion MX 6.1

� MSSQL 2000 (50MB), mySQL (50MB), and MS Access database support.

[iebidan]

ok ok, here is the complete information on what I get for what I pay, and the exact price will be $ 39.95, not 50 as I said in the previous post

 

350 MB Hard Disk Storage

Unlimited Monthly Transfer

50 POP E-Mail Accounts

500 (10 per account) E-mail Aliases

50 E-mail Autoresponders

Virus & Spam Protection - CatchGuard�

 

Web-based Control Panel

WebTrends - Daily Site Statistics

Access to Log Files

Comprehensive User Guide

MarketBooster

$50 Google AdWord Credit

$50 Overture Keyword Credit

Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Extensions

Microsoft InterDev Extensions

CGI-bin Directory

Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1

ASP.NET

Active Server Pages 3.0 ("Classic ASP")

.NET Mobile Internet Toolkit

ADO.NET

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)

ASPLogin 2000

ServerObjects ASP Bundle

cyScape BrowserHawk

Software Artisans ASPStudio

Persits ASP Components

IIS ASP Components

PHP

Code Manager

Process Manager

Disk Space & Bandwidth Manager

Time Tracker Starter Kit

Reports Starter Kit

Community Starter Kit

Commerce Starter Kit

Portal Starter Kit

Shopping Cart - Miva Merchant 4.1

Firewall Protection Service

Verisign Secure Site Service (SSL)

50 MB RealMedia/Windows Media Storage

50 MB MS SQL or MySQL Database

ODBC/DSN Database

[irasmith]

Thank you all so much for your posts. I will check out the resoures you listed as I work toward selecting a .NET hosting provider.

 

I also thank you for the explanation of the VS.NET hosting question. I really did not know what that meant and am glad to know that some providers provide that ability. I do not need to make use of it as I have my own copy of VS.NET Professional that I will be using to program with.

 

With the suggestions you have provided though it does look like I will be busy researching the options :)

[samsmithnz]

most times you cannot Step-Through whilst on a remote server.

 

yeh you can't debug through a firewall.

[divil]

If uptime and reliability is a consideration, I wouldn't go with Brinkster.

[irasmith]

Yes, uptime is of importance to me. I realize everyone will have hardware/network issues at some point in time, it's just the nature of the beast so that part won't upset me. My present PHP/MySQL provider has had a couple of those times but as it should be service was promptly restored and I'm no worse for the wear.

 

I will keep looking into this as I continue my steps forward to open up a .NET based site as well.

[Denaes]

If uptime and reliability is a consideration, I wouldn't go with Brinkster.

 

Has there been a problem with them?

 

Featureprice (the old plan I had) was rated like 99.9% up, but they kept screwing with things and knocking my site down for hours to days without any clue or warning. Then they wouldn't fix anything until you complained about it.

 

Brinkster has been down twice for me in the last 2 months. Both times I got an email a few days in advance giving me a window of time the site might be down for X amount of minutes/hours and if I had a real problem with that time, to email them back and set up another maintanance time.

 

I think thats rather professional.

 

Considering my only other comparison, Brinksters A-OK by me so far. Do they have a rep for reliability or being down that I havn't heard about?

[divil]

I speak only from experience. I have a site hosted on there that has very odd behaviour, they overload their servers. Sessions are spontaneously lost, things like that.