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Just think about how you - as a user - would like to read it.
What is it? What does it do for you? How simple is it for you to use?
What makes it better than the alternatives?
What's the storage format? Is it as open and flexible as XML or JSON? Is it human readable? (This can be an advantage and a disadvantage!) Does it include encryption?
How do I use it? How does it work?
Easyriders (the US custom bike magazine from the 70's and 80's) used to say "if you're not telling it to the guys in the bar, you're telling it wrong". You probably don't need to go that far (or include pictures of naked women wrapped around your computer) but making it readable is important here: too dry and technical and nobody will read it except the moderators. Of course, too light and folksy and nobody will read it either ... 
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wow, that took me back  My older brother used to get Easyriders and I used to sneak into his room to look at it.
For the articles. Of course.
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The articles were the only reason anyone bought it, I'm sure. And SuperBike (UK). And a certain rabbit based US mag the name of which temporarily escapes me ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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mmm.. you are giving me some ideas!  
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The DI and fast reflection sound interesting!
Of course it needs to include blockchain and AI in a mobile format to be truly interesting and relevant 
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I'd suggest doing it as a non-sequential series of angry tweets.
That seems to be de rigueur, these days.
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Gamification is the name of the game, I'm thinking of a title like 'Serial Killer' 
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spot on!
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Hi, Glad to hear your back in the saddle !
I'd enjoy more of your writing on the serializer.
cheers, Bill
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Trainee tells you where the tea is in Yorkshire (6)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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In t'urn!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Aye lad
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nice clue!
As an aside, I remain to be convinced that "Yorkshire tea" is actually grown in Yorkshire.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Somebody has got to do it
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I might do a WebSite for my home pet project soon...
I am going to use ASP .NET Core for the dynamic part and will need a database and some disk storage (for user's upload and custom web page content)
Any hosting suggestion?
I am wondering about Azure, might be good as a learning experience, but might be overpriced for my hobby needs...
Though I did find it can do quite a lot for free!
Discount ASP seems good ..
Any other suggestion and / or recommendations?
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I really like http://SmarterASP.Net. Moved to it from GoDaddy and have had very good experiences.
It is very cheap and you can host multiple domains, etc. All the .NET features you are looking for including .NET Core 2.x and actually some decent support.
If you want you can use my affiliate link to get there : SmarterASP.net - Unlimited ASP.NET Web Hosting[^]
60 Day Free Trial
Also, I there is a 60 day free trial with no credit card or payment method required.
If after the 60 days you want to keep it you can sign up. Very nice for insuring it supports what you want.
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Thanks, gotta have a look! 
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raddevus wrote: I really like http://SmarterASP.Net.
That's the best pricing combos I've seen. I'll have to take a closer look for the non-hobby sites I run. 
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Say I have windows service which need to crawl the homepage of some site every 10mins and a simple ASP.NET website to display the collected stats. Do you think I can run the windows service on the same website instance or I need a windows VM from Azure?
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Cake Processor wrote: windows service which need to crawl the homepage of some site every 10mins
There are challenges.
Running a web app as a service can be tricky because the web app will attempt to stop when there is no activity after 20 minutes.
With SmarterASP.NET you can't actually run a pure Windows Service because they don't allow you access to the SCM (Service Control Manager).
You may find that with .NET Core there are easier ways to do run a hybrid web/windows service however.
But I believe it will always require you to do something to insure the app is alive at certain intervals. Of course, you can do things as simple as using a .NET Timer that will run your code every x minutes and keep the thing alive.
For example...
I noticed that the web apps I have running will stop after 20 minutes (the IIS default).
I got a DigitalOcean.com droplet running Debian for $5/month.
I wrote a cron script that calls my site with curl every 8 minutes and requests a page.
Voila! My web app is always alive and then (since my web site doesn't get visited as often as hugely popular sites) when a user navigates to my site it is served up almost immediately since it hasn't gone to sleep.
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Second this one, I did the same thing - moved from GoDaddy to SmarterASP, had no problems moving site contents or retaining domain.
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are they reliable? responsive?
Bryian Tan
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Support really is quite reliable and responsive.
Over the 2 or 3 years I've used SmarterASP I've probably had 6 queries for them and they've answered all of them satisfactorily with resolution within a few hours.
The set up itself is quite flexible so you can control pretty much everything you want yourself also so there's not much waiting around for them to do something.
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Does SmarterASP support changing the Port Number on their Shared Hosting plans?
I had used MyWindowsHosting which is just a wrapper around SmarterASP and was not able to use any ports that were not 80 & 443. The system I want to use utilizes the "HTTP(S) alternatives of 8080 & 8443 in addition to the standard ports. It really is nothing too complicated site wise that warrants the cost of dedicated or VM hosting
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