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It appears that my contract with Arvixe is nearly up and they are not proving to be the most reliable of hosts - the service goes down reasonably regularly (never quite sure why).
Anyway, maybe time to move on. I know this question is often asked here but think it best to find the latest thinking - so, any recommendations for a new .Net web host?
Thanks
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I'd second Azure. Been more reliable than any other company so far, easy to manage too. I use their VM's though - their hosted sites and databases are too expensive.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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http://www.microsoft.com/web/hosting/home[^] Lists web hosting sites
http://www.asp.net/hosting[^] Azure!
Also http://www.1and1.com/[^]
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Ah, yes! Forgot about that list. Thanks
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I have had great success with WinHost:
http://www.winhost.com/[^]
Easy to set up. They set you up fast. Great prices and great support of the latest asp.net capabilities.
Also, uptime like 99.9% or something. Quite fast connection too.
Good luck.
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Another great feature, if you're setting up SQL Server backends or even using sql server to do tests is that you can connect directly to your sql server databases using a URL and SSMS (Sql Server Mgmnt Studio). Very nice.
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I also have had a good run with WinHost and would recommend them for any ASP.NET applications. No complaints about their service from me.
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I have found WinHost's service to be more than satisfactory. They have a nice management interface that provides plenty of info up front, decent guides, SSMS access and they allow you to run your site with full trust on their standard package. Plus it's cheap.
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Don't understand that, I've been with them a year and they have been good. The only problem I had was my site went down once for ~24 hours and when I emailed tech support they reset the AppPool and it came back up. I asked them if it was something I could do and they said there was a user option to do this so found it and if it happens again I can fix. If you do decide to change do not go with BizHostNet they suck a big one, tech support is almost non-existent and site is slow and goes down regularly, for as much as 3 days with no notice from them.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Thanks: the site often goes down early morning and takes a while to come back - get lots of 500s. It also takes email with it. I am tired of having to chat with someone who you know is not giving you the whole story or going on line to reset the app pool.
Anyway, been with them for a few years: time for a change!
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Yeah I gottcha they all start out doing a great job but after a while things just go to sh*t. I guess they figure if you been there for that long you'll stay regardless of the service?
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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They probably also just end up overloading the servers and put new customers on newer hardware.
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Yeah I haven't thought of that you're probably right.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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I just started using them for a client's site and I've been really happy after about 3 months. What level of hosting do you have?
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Shared. I know I should probably go to VPS or dedicated but I just can't justify the cost.
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We are doing shared with the personal pro, but will probably upgrade to business class at some point. Do you know what the actual errors are, and what applications are you hosting there? I'm hosting nopCommerce, and would like to know what I should look out for if their hosting starts going bad.
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Just a couple of vanilla asp.net web sites. I find that they are usually down first thing in the morning (LA Time) and come back after a few minutes. Often mail is also unavailable with 500 errors. Appears to be pretty random.
Have spoken with them numerous times but it keeps happening. Not the end of the world, just irritating. Would be worse if they were ecommerce sites (but then I suppose I'd use either the cloud or dedicated servers for that)!
There was a large outage a week or so ago that took some time to clear.
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Finding good windows hosting for a reasonable price is hard especially when you put it up against something like https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/[^]. I'm hosting about 20 wordpress sites there for around $25 a month.
We migrated the nopCommerce client off of Volusion, which is a crazy asp classic system, so decent shared hosting is definitely a step up for our client. I'm sure they will eventually get to the level where cloud or dedicated servers make sense, but this is working for them now.
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How do you find nopCommerce. I've never heard of it and using OpenCart at the moment... but would love to move to something I can code properly 
do they have a market place of modules etc.? - they do, just looked.
Now, would yo say the people that use nopCommerce are 'cheap',, people who use OpenCart are v cheap and never want to pay for anything (mods etc.) really.
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It is decent, they have a lot of features baked in.
I've written a theme for it, and the one somewhat technical issue I had was they way they displayed the pricing around options. Our client wanted it to show the total price in the option drop down and nopCommerce is written to show deltas in the drop down. I had to change core files to fix that one.
For the theme I started with a free bootstrap based theme and it has been relatively easy to make modifications, though it's still straight css and doesn't use semantic class names. I've been spoiled working with the genesis framework on wordpress. I hateses PHP with a passion, but genesis makes it so easy to customize the layout, and the wordpress custom post type and metadata api make it just as easy to customize the base data, that it's kind of a pain going back to strongly typed views.
I'd say that every client is as cheap as you let them be. I learned a long time ago that some people just aren't worth the hassle of getting money out of them. We make it very clear up front that we have a minimum price for working on a new project, and turn down work if it is too small. In addition all our clients sign a contract and pay a down payment before we start work. My main partner is my wife and she handles the business development.
She's constantly networking and connecting with businesses in related industries so that we can share good clients through the network. We also manage the hosting and do content, social media, and newsletter management. It's not a huge sum of money, but it is reoccurring, and it lets us have a continuing relationship with our clients to get a leg up on their next project.
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Odd. Of all the hosting services I've tried over the years, Arvixe has been the best.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yep.
The only time my site was down was when they were being pounded by a DDoS attack. A lot. For days. Just the one server, too, if I'm not mistaken.
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I've used gate.com for about 15 years (they were HostSave). I've found them very reliable, inexpensive and the support is good.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Hi Mark,
I've also moved away from Arvixe because of their down time issues and the fact that they don't want to support SmartMailer.
I'm currently at Aspnix[^] they are really good to me. They've been offline once but I contacted them via live chat and everything was resolved in 10min.
Cheers
Johan
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