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  • R R Giskard Reventlov

    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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    Azure?

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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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      TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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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/[^]

      If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
      You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
      Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

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      • R R Giskard Reventlov

        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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        newton saber
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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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          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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          • R R Giskard Reventlov

            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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            Mike Hankey
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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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              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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              R Giskard Reventlov
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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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                http://www.microsoft.com/web/hosting/home[^] Lists web hosting sites http://www.asp.net/hosting[^] Azure! Also http://www.1and1.com/[^]

                If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
                You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
                Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

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                R Giskard Reventlov
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                Ah, yes! Forgot about that list. Thanks

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                • R R Giskard Reventlov

                  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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                  Mike Hankey
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                  Yeah I gottcha they all start out doing a great job but after a while things just go to shit. 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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                  • R R Giskard Reventlov

                    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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                    Andy Brummer
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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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                      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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                      R Giskard Reventlov
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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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                        Shared. I know I should probably go to VPS or dedicated but I just can't justify the cost.

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                        Andy Brummer
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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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                          Yeah I gottcha they all start out doing a great job but after a while things just go to shit. 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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                          Andy Brummer
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                          They probably also just end up overloading the servers and put new customers on newer hardware.

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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.

                            Curvature of the Mind now with 3D

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                            R Giskard Reventlov
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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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                              They probably also just end up overloading the servers and put new customers on newer hardware.

                              Curvature of the Mind now with 3D

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                              Mike Hankey
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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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                              • R R Giskard Reventlov

                                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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                                Andy Brummer
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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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                                • R R Giskard Reventlov

                                  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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                                  Roger Wright
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                                  Odd. Of all the hosting services I've tried over the years, Arvixe has been the best.

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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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                                    GenJerDan
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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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                                    • R R Giskard Reventlov

                                      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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                                      PhilLenoir
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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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                                      • R R Giskard Reventlov

                                        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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                                        JohanJvR
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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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                                          Azure?

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                                          Lost User
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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.

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