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Netnation? Those bastards were scum of the earth about 5 years ago. They kept getting bought out and the service quality would plummet each time to the point people were fleeing like rats from a drowning ship. Either a lot has changed or you have *very* low standards. 
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I was thinking about trying these guys:
Arvixe[^]
Unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and all the important ASP.Net stuff - $5/month
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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 They do look good! 
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http://www.xtrahost.co.uk/[^]
Used for over a year, not had any downtime.. (Windows VPS), great support, although only ever needed when locked myself out as nothing else has ever gone wrong!
modified 19-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I'm using Arvixe right now for my hosting (linux plan)
so far, I'm happy with them
Stephane
"Facebook is like prison - sitting, wasting time, writing on walls and being poked by people you don'k even know."
www.exotk.org
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Is the web site in your link on arvixe?
If so, that's great, because I can get to it from work (I can't get to my cuirrent web site from work - it's blocked and I don't know why).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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yes it is.
you can check the DNS Records[^]
HTH
Stephane
"Facebook is like prison - sitting, wasting time, writing on walls and being poked by people you don'k even know."
www.exotk.org
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also, if you go with Arvixe, google "Arvixe Coupon" you may find some nice discounts...
Stephane
"Facebook is like prison - sitting, wasting time, writing on walls and being poked by people you don'k even know."
www.exotk.org
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No way is that as good as it looks, I just did a search for this kind of stuff about a month ago and nobody is offering unlimited disk space or bandwidth. There's something fishy going on there.
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When you take a look at their SQL Server there are literally 100s of databases on the same server, if you are after high perfomance then the cheap plan is not going to work. They are excellent for a light weight site and deve/testing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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When referring to hosting "Unlimited" means "...within the constraints of what's available between all the other customers on the shared server, and that we reserve the right to suspend the account of anyone going too far over the average utilization level."
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That's false advertising. I checked, there is no asterisk beside it, when you click on the full description there is no legalese or restrictions mentioned of any kind.
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The shared server gotcha is made explicit via the comparison page[^] between business and personal hosting. For ~$20-30/month more they promise a much smaller degree of sharing within a single server. Pulling the plug on a site that is too resource intensive is covered under the because we said so clause of the TOS[^]
Arvixe TOS excerpt (emphasis mine)
Suspension of Service or Cancellation: Arvixe reserves the right to suspend network access to any customer if in the judgment of the Arvixe network administrators the customer's server is the source or target of the violation of any of the other terms of the AUP or for any other reason which Arvixe chooses. If inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts of the Customer in question will be deactivated until an investigation is complete. We offer a 30 day money back providing we failed to provide you with the service as outlined for each individual hosting plan. Prior notification to the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be contacted regarding the activity. The customer will not be credited for the time the customer's machines were suspended.
Right to refuse service: Arvixe reserves the right to refuse service to any customer at any time within reasonable means/requests.
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I guess it's common practice but it smacks of weasel behavior to say "unlimited" on the main page, click on the ? details link and it still says and unqualified "unlimited" then find it's really limited but in no certain terms.
So I guess in sum it's a great host for messing around as a developer and experimenting but not a host to which you would want to expose paying customers.
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John C wrote: So I guess in sum it's a great host for messing around as a developer and experimenting but not a host to which you would want to expose paying customers.
For most customers probably not; but if you do small projects as well as larger ones at least some of them would probably be fine with it. Small businesses without any desire to expand beyond the local region are unlikely to ever have much traffic, and there are non-technical people who only need someone to configure their out of the box CMS and put a bit of basic branding on it.
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I 5'd all of your messages in this thread because it's GOOD to be the devil's advocate. Most people never read the fine print. I know I didn't.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I'm using them for and SL4/SQL Server app, support is not up to DASP standard but it is adequate, they helped a lot with my config problems and we got SSRS reports working.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I use Arvixe for my web site (see sig). Good rates, excellent service, never been down. 
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Hi John,
I'm using Arvixe. I have a business ASP.NET account with them (similar to the one you're talking about, but with lower contention I guess and licensed for hosting client stuff). They are very good indeed. And you get SQL Express 2008. So you can have 4GB per database (or 10GB if it's the R2 version, which I think it is but I'm sorry, I can't remember and I can't check from work due to some corporate firewall stuff).
I would absolutely recommend them and I don't even have an affiliate link to earn me anything by referring you.
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So far I'm leaning towards this option
No matter how long he who laughs last laughs, he who laughs first has a head start!
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I'll add another person to the list who uses Arvixe and is happy with them.
I'm on a shared asp.net hosting plan. I've never had any problems and they've always answered my support questions pretty quickly, (but I'm not doing anything particularly intensive either).
Don't take the "unlimited" thing though at face value though, I asked about this recently and was directed to their very vaguely worded Acceptable usage policy[^]. It basically says they can terminate your account for whatever reason they like whenever they like.
Simon
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We ran the gamut of them before we went to Serverbeach and we've been happy ever since. It's relatively easy to manage your own server and it's *never* down in many years of dealing with them. Also you get lot's of space which you don't on any of the hosted servers unless you pay through the nose extra for it.
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$75/month is too expensive for folks like me. I'm currently paying $15/month and I can't even do .net/SQL. That's why the one I mentioned looks so inviting.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I have used DiscountASP and found them to be excellent, I now use Arvixe as they are quite a bit cheaper, the support is not quite as good as DASP but it is adequate. I'm hosting an SL4/SQL Server app there. With embedded SSRS reports (pop up ASP viewer page) so it was a bit of a challenge with the configs.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You should post this in our Hosting forum[^]. This topic holds a special level of pain for us.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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