ASP.Net hosting

[huzzi]

I am looking for reliable, cheap asp.net hosting company

..any recommendation?

many thanks

 

Hi,

Are you looking for business hosting or general personal hosting?

We have some very reliable hosting on our own dedicated server starting from £30 per month. This includes most srcipting languages (PHP, ASP, .NET, Cold Fusion MX) FTP, Email and more.

I also use www.instaspace.com for personal hosting. They are very cheap and reliable, starting from only $3 per month for 75mb of space.

Hope this helps

:wink:

 

[DotNetWebs]

Hi huzzi

I have used several of the UK based windows hosts in recent years. I have had problems with some of them. I am currently running a dedicated server with www.netcetera.co.uk So far I am very pleased with them and would certainly recommended them.

Regards

Dotty

 

[Webstuff]

http://www.winsave.com/

I used to use their other company, hostsave, and only have nice things to say about them. I found their customer support to be quick and to the point, and their rates are quite good.

 

[microbe]

I found Netcetera's description of their dedicated hosting offer a little hard to follow. http://www.netcetera.co.uk/products/dedicated_hosting.asp

It is a fairly obvious point but reliable and cheap tend not to go hand in hand. I use Orcsweb.com, who are very good indeed, run by MVPs who provide brilliant support, but not at all cheap.

Netcetera have a very good track record and reputation, but when I have shopped for ASP hosting in the past they were expensive compared to good US specialists. Their pricing looks quite attractive now though.

 

[Webstuff]

I'm not inclined to agree; there are plenty of reliable, cheap webhosts. There may not be many windows hosts, but there are so many unix/? hosts, I guess they just have to be especially competetive to survive. I've never been with a host who was either 1) particularly expensive (I've never paid of 80 GBP a year for a host), or 2) a host who didn't reply to my letters within 2 business days. Maybe I just got lucky?

 

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I've never been with a host who was either 1) particularly expensive (I've never paid of 80 GBP a year for a host), or 2) a host who didn't reply to my letters within 2 business days.

Dear Sir

My web site is down. I look forward to hearing from you within two business days.

???????

Not the test of reliability I would apply, but if you are happy with that, that is up to you I suppose.

 

[Webstuff]

Who were you using for that?

 

[Webstuff]

Oh no, I just got it 2 business days has been the max for support emails, I've only ever used ones that also provide phone / direct web chat (in case I need it). Don't make fun of me

 

[microbe]

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I have been thinking it would probably be valuable to actually define reliable.

If you have a web host who offers a 99% uptime guarantee, that means that your web site can (and likely will) be offline for 3.65 days per annum.

Some hosts, will offer a network guarantee of 99.999% but that means that their data centre will be guaranteed to be connected to the outside world for that time. Which is not the same thing as your web site being up.

But you can find hosts who will offer 99.999% guaranteed uptime on their shared hosting. But they will not be cheap.

I quote "99.9% Uptime is also a 1&1 guarantee!" ...that means that your site can be offline for a big chunk of time before you have any right to complain

Reliability is the thing which matters most about a web site. It doesn't matter how great your design is, if no-one can see it. You can find that all your laborious SEO gets wiped out because spiders keep finding a dead site.

Of course reliability is also about how well the server runs while it is online. Although I suppose that could more correctly be called performance.

Then comes service - it needs to be quick and competent.

Fifth consideration is automated uptime monitoring, so you will know that your site is online.

 

[annethedonn]

Hi Huzzi

We are an affiliate for Lycos Webhosting and we offer Virtual Dedicated Server packages at very reasonable rates. Check us out at:

Prices start at £6.99/month including technical support to £34.99 - check out the VDS at the link below where you can get a week's free trial:

http://www.partnershop.co.uk/shop/3912/1/?mid=40&url=

 

[microbe]

If cheap is what you want then you can get a lot cheaper without looking very hard..

 

[microbe]

Found it in the end:

"Lycos strives to maintain a 99.7% network uptime service level. As usual as in the dedicated hosting business, we can only guarantee our overall network and not each individual server. Since all of our customers have full root access, the uptime of individual servers is out of our control. We will, of course, do everything in our power to keep your server online."

 

[Rob Holmes]

It depends what they mean by guarantee. Will they give you your money back and whats the process you have to go through?

We don't do asp hosting due to Microsofts neurotic licensing but our guarantee is we give you your money back if you're not happy. It's not tied to any uptime conditions, customer service levels etc etc - it's just based on the end users happiness. We also refund within 24hrs of receipt of the request.

And whoever you go with make sure they back your site up at least nightly to a seperate hard drive and if your sites worth anything to you I suggest weekly and monthly backups to different geographical locations too!

Rob

 

[microbe]

Sounds look a pretty good offer, Matrixx.

I like the fact you have your picture on your home page.

I suppose what I really think is wrong with the hosting market is that it is a service which people are buying like it is a commodity.