ASP.NET/MSSQL Web Host?

[kyzen]

A lot of the "webhost reviews" sites I come across seem like paid-for advertising for hosts, so I figured the techies of ATOT might have some better insight.

I'm looking for a webhost for a .NET based site; a custom app I made for an MMORPG I play, and then some sort of community portal system (probably Dot Net Nuke). I'm looking for at least ~5GB storage, at least 3 MSSQL DB's measuring at least 1GB each, and of course as much bandwidth as I can get .

Short term I'm looking at ~15000 hits a month, though that will likely grow significantly when we allow more users.

A co-worker suggested webhost4life to me, though mentioned that he doesn't have much running on his account. After reading a few reviews about it, it seems they have more unhappy customers than happy ones.

I currently use Hostgator for a PHP-based group of sites, and am really pleased with them, but they don't have any sort of ETA on when they'll have Windows hosting, and I can't wait too long.

So, anybody have any suggestions for a Windows host? Ideally $15 a month or less, but I'm willing to go higher for quality service.

Anybody?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Have you considered your own VPS? It may be slightly more, but you will learn a lot too...and have a lot more control over it.

 

[EricMartello]

Check the hosting offers section on WebHostingTalk.com or port your app to PHP (smarter option) and stick with hostgator.

 

[EricMartello]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Have you considered your own VPS? It may be slightly more, but you will learn a lot too...and have a lot more control over it.

That doesn't answer his question because he'd still need a host...

 

[kyzen]

Originally posted by: EricMartello
Check the hosting offers section on WebHostingTalk.com or port your app to PHP (smarter option) and stick with hostgator.

Without wanting to get into a debate on whether or not it's the better design choice; my app uses a lot of views and stored procedures, and whatever security settings HostGator has on MySQL don't allow me to create those, so porting to PHP is something I'd prefer to avoid

Webhosting talk seems great, thanks

 

[Nik]

http://www.webhostingtalk.com

 

[torpid]

I use softsys but my needs are much smaller... it's mostly just a wedding side with some custom ASP.net code.

 

[EricMartello]

Originally posted by: kyzen

Originally posted by: EricMartello
Check the hosting offers section on WebHostingTalk.com or port your app to PHP (smarter option) and stick with hostgator.

Without wanting to get into a debate on whether or not it's the better design choice; my app uses a lot of views and stored procedures, and whatever security settings HostGator has on MySQL don't allow me to create those, so porting to PHP is something I'd prefer to avoid

Webhosting talk seems great, thanks

Yeah whatever PHP >>> .NET period. Pay me lots of money and I'll fix it for you!

 

[kyzen]

Originally posted by: EricMartello

Originally posted by: kyzen

Originally posted by: EricMartello
Check the hosting offers section on WebHostingTalk.com or port your app to PHP (smarter option) and stick with hostgator.

Without wanting to get into a debate on whether or not it's the better design choice; my app uses a lot of views and stored procedures, and whatever security settings HostGator has on MySQL don't allow me to create those, so porting to PHP is something I'd prefer to avoid

Webhosting talk seems great, thanks

Yeah whatever PHP >>> .NET period. Pay me lots of money and I'll fix it for you!

Tell you what, the day I start making *any* significant amount of money from my sites, I'll shoot you a PM

 

[VenomXTF]

Originally posted by: EricMartello
Yeah whatever PHP >>> .NET period. Pay me lots of money and I'll fix it for you!

Would love to hear the logic behind this statement.

kyzen, here's some ASP.NET hosting I've seen recommended:

http://www.crystaltech.com/
http://www.serverintellect.com/
http://www.jodohost.com/
http://www.discountasp.net/

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: EricMartello

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Have you considered your own VPS? It may be slightly more, but you will learn a lot too...and have a lot more control over it.

That doesn't answer his question because he'd still need a host...

I offer windows VPS's wink wink

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

ASP.net with MySQL is an odd combination.

 

[VenomXTF]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
ASP.net with MySQL is an odd combination.

He said he needs MSSQL

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: VenomXTF

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
ASP.net with MySQL is an odd combination.

He said he needs MSSQL

/facepalm
This is why I shouldn't read AT first thing when I get out of bed.

 

[EricMartello]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
I offer windows VPS's wink wink

I missed your shameless plug. Woops.

Originally posted by: VenomXTF
Would love to hear the logic behind this statement.

kyzen, here's some ASP.NET hosting I've seen recommended:

http://www.crystaltech.com/
http://www.serverintellect.com/
http://www.jodohost.com/
http://www.discountasp.net/

- PHP can do anything that .NET can do - if not more.
- It works as well as or better than .NET in terms of performance.
- It has a huge dev community which makes finding support is easy.
- Almost every web host supports it, so PHP apps are very portable.
- There are no licensing fees associated with it - lower TCO.
- It has great support and performance with Apache, which is a better web server than IIS.


The list goes on...

 

[ViviTheMage]

I prefer PHP over .NET, that's for sure.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
I prefer PHP over .NET, that's for sure.

I can certainly relate with you in terms of cost (all of my web stuff is LAMP) but in terms of coding pleasure there's no contest. C# is a better language (this isn't language evangelism, this is an objective truth) and the .NET framework is awesome, but takes time to learn.

 

[EricMartello]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
I prefer PHP over .NET, that's for sure.

I can certainly relate with you in terms of cost (all of my web stuff is LAMP) but in terms of coding pleasure there's no contest. C# is a better language (this isn't language evangelism, this is an objective truth) and the .NET framework is awesome, but takes time to learn.

OK, just so you are aware, "better" and "awesome" are not a quantifiers of an objective statement. An objective statement would present a fact, followed by a verifiable benefit of said fact.

To that end...

C# is like C++ ... minus the ++ ... and minus a pair of testicles... just like all the other sandboxed languages out there. They call it C# because if you use it, you like to C guys getting #'d in the pooper.

 

[kyzen]

Originally posted by: EricMartello
They call it C# because if you use it, you like to C guys getting #'d in the pooper.

Except for that it's C Sharp, not C Pound, and getting sharped in the pooper doesn't sound like something ANYBODY would want to watch



Thanks for the suggestions so far.

And while I can appreciate the .NET vs PHP debate, I get paid to write C#, I do PHP for fun, and this project was just easier to whip up in C# thanks to its sandboxiness. Aren't there enough threads in the programming section debating which language is best?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: EricMartello

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
I prefer PHP over .NET, that's for sure.

I can certainly relate with you in terms of cost (all of my web stuff is LAMP) but in terms of coding pleasure there's no contest. C# is a better language (this isn't language evangelism, this is an objective truth) and the .NET framework is awesome, but takes time to learn.

OK, just so you are aware, "better" and "awesome" are not a quantifiers of an objective statement. An objective statement would present a fact, followed by a verifiable benefit of said fact.

To that end...

C# is like C++ ... minus the ++ ... and minus a pair of testicles... just like all the other sandboxed languages out there. They call it C# because if you use it, you like to C guys getting #'d in the pooper.

Uhhh wow, I'm not sure how to respond to that. There are features built into the framework that allow you to run "unsafe" code if you want to. And LOL @ you for thinking it's pronounced "C-pound", I guess it shows how much you know about the language you berate.

 

[EricMartello]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Uhhh wow, I'm not sure how to respond to that. There are features built into the framework that allow you to run "unsafe" code if you want to. And LOL @ you for thinking it's pronounced "C-pound", I guess it shows how much you know about the language you berate.

# is the POUND sign. You call a voicemail, they say PRESS THE POUND SIGN and it means the # key. Nobody says PRESS THE SHARP KEY, and the fact that everyone here knew that's what I meant without directly saying it pretty much says it all. This is not music so it's not C-Sharp as some people may wish it meant, but I can understand that you may wish it was c-sharp after learning what it means to get C#'d in Uranus (and no that is not a new episode of Stargate).

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: EricMartello

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Uhhh wow, I'm not sure how to respond to that. There are features built into the framework that allow you to run "unsafe" code if you want to. And LOL @ you for thinking it's pronounced "C-pound", I guess it shows how much you know about the language you berate.

# is the POUND sign. You call a voicemail, they say PRESS THE POUND SIGN and it means the # key. Nobody says PRESS THE SHARP KEY, and the fact that everyone here knew that's what I meant without directly saying it pretty much says it all. This is not music so it's not C-Sharp as some people may wish it meant, but I can understand that you may wish it was c-sharp after learning what it means to get C#'d in Uranus (and no that is not a new episode of Stargate).

It's not a phone either so why would it be C Pound? By your logic it should be called C Number.

However, it is called C Sharp kthxbai

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: EricMartello

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Uhhh wow, I'm not sure how to respond to that. There are features built into the framework that allow you to run "unsafe" code if you want to. And LOL @ you for thinking it's pronounced "C-pound", I guess it shows how much you know about the language you berate.

# is the POUND sign. You call a voicemail, they say PRESS THE POUND SIGN and it means the # key. Nobody says PRESS THE SHARP KEY, and the fact that everyone here knew that's what I meant without directly saying it pretty much says it all. This is not music so it's not C-Sharp as some people may wish it meant, but I can understand that you may wish it was c-sharp after learning what it means to get C#'d in Uranus (and no that is not a new episode of Stargate).

Ever do music? It's called C-SHARP not C-Pound. So seriously, there's two different ways to say it arite? You can say ZERO or OH in certain cases. Get over it. But I can't believe anyone would start a debate about this. If you think it's C-Pound when referring to the programming language, you should seriously just stop talking

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: EricMartello

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Uhhh wow, I'm not sure how to respond to that. There are features built into the framework that allow you to run "unsafe" code if you want to. And LOL @ you for thinking it's pronounced "C-pound", I guess it shows how much you know about the language you berate.

# is the POUND sign. You call a voicemail, they say PRESS THE POUND SIGN and it means the # key. Nobody says PRESS THE SHARP KEY, and the fact that everyone here knew that's what I meant without directly saying it pretty much says it all. This is not music so it's not C-Sharp as some people may wish it meant, but I can understand that you may wish it was c-sharp after learning what it means to get C#'d in Uranus (and no that is not a new episode of Stargate).

Well first of all, where I'm from no one would call the # sign on a phone "pound", that's fucking stupid (it's called 'hash'). Secondly, you can argue all you want with the company that designed, wrote and named the language but it won't make you right.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: EricMartello
- PHP can do anything that .NET can do - if not more.

Example of the "more" please?

- It works as well as or better than .NET in terms of performance.

Link with proof?

- It has a huge dev community which makes finding support is easy.

Unlike .net, where you can't find a single person anywhere on the planet who uses it.

- Almost every web host supports it, so PHP apps are very portable.

Every web host supports HTML and javascript. Why not use it instead?

- There are no licensing fees associated with it - lower TCO.

What licensing fees?