webhosting for dotnet applications
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
If they're behind a static IP, why don't they just the server themselves? If they can afford $60/mo or so, a micro-server on Amazon is great. Or you could look at Azure. Otherwise, there's various reasonable hosting sites out there, but I haven't used them in ages, so others will have to make a recommendation in that arena. Marc
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If they're behind a static IP, why don't they just the server themselves? If they can afford $60/mo or so, a micro-server on Amazon is great. Or you could look at Azure. Otherwise, there's various reasonable hosting sites out there, but I haven't used them in ages, so others will have to make a recommendation in that arena. Marc
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This is a small business, totally non-technical. I can't imagine them hosting anything themselves. This is not to denigrate them; tech-stuff is not their arena. The app is not a robust one, it simply collects information from a single source and serves the information out to customers each day. Azure may be more affordable. Thanks!
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This is a small business, totally non-technical. I can't imagine them hosting anything themselves. This is not to denigrate them; tech-stuff is not their arena. The app is not a robust one, it simply collects information from a single source and serves the information out to customers each day. Azure may be more affordable. Thanks!
BryanFazekas wrote:
The app is not a robust one, it simply collects information from a single source and serves the information out to customers each day.
Heh. Sounds like it could be implemented on an rPi sitting in the janitor's closet. Seriously, they don't need to know anything about hosting, sounds like all you need to do is set up a box for them that runs a web server, configure the router to for port 443, set up an SSL certificate and auto-renewal, register a domain, point it to their static IP, ... Ah, ok, I see your point. ;) Marc
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
Tell them to use Linux... n00bs. :rolleyes:
Jeremy Falcon
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This is a small business, totally non-technical. I can't imagine them hosting anything themselves. This is not to denigrate them; tech-stuff is not their arena. The app is not a robust one, it simply collects information from a single source and serves the information out to customers each day. Azure may be more affordable. Thanks!
My AWS administration experience is limited, but I would second something like Azure or AWS... mainly because of the level of control you get with it is very much akin to a VPS. Or you could just get a VPS, but typically with those you don't get the fancy web interfaces to control it as much as you do with cloud-based environments.
Jeremy Falcon
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
I just watched this [Build apps faster with Azure Serverless - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnJt4qfsfOc&MC=JavaScript&MC=Windows&MC=Vstudio&MC=MSAzure&MC=MobileDev) from the MSDN news letter, seems it may meet your requirements. I know a demo like that glosses over all the difficult bits but it may be worth investigating. I do note there is no discussion of cost :~
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
I use SmarterASP.net - Unlimited ASP.NET Web Hosting[^] 1. Decent control panel to host .NET based applications 2. Not sure about support as I never needed it. I mostly use them for my side project
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
I have a couple of .net applications hosted on http://appharbor.com and I can't recommend it highly enough. If your requirements are simple you may even get away with using their free options, but if not it remains cheap, versatile and scalable
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
How about a Azure Web App (there's a free tier for up to 60 compute mins a day) associated with a Azure storage account for the files. Azure Calculator
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
I have used GoDaddy for clients that need a lot of hand holding. Their customer support is geared towards clients that need a lot of assistance. Takes the load off me. Not the cheapest option for them, but definitely for you.
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
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I have used GoDaddy for clients that need a lot of hand holding. Their customer support is geared towards clients that need a lot of assistance. Takes the load off me. Not the cheapest option for them, but definitely for you.
I agree about GoDaddy. Fairly easy to manage and it does just work. If the application is fairly small should be fine Azure is nice but almost requires that a person know how to manage servers kind of. So Not sure that would be best for you after hearing aobut the client.
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
Arvixe I use a good bit. Very reasonable and while it requires that you have some reasonable level of knowledge. They have been the most cost effective .NET host provider I've run into. When there has been a real problem they were capable and resolved issues in a reasonable length of time. www.arvixe.com They have both shared and dedicated hosting at various levels based on your need and very quickly get to unlimited storage and SQL backends. MySQL is provided by default with all of their packages.
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
WinHost.com is a very good and affordable option with good support as well. It has all of the tools and more for .NET developers who want or need to support hosted .NET web applications...
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
Smarterasp.net. Been using it for several clients for years now. Very affordable, easy to use and decent support.
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I do that. I offer Plesk based webhosting with not too many restrictions. One .com-Domain included, from $30 each year. Service includes user level ssh-access, custom dns-settings and much more. Just send me a PM and we may talk about it.
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I have a potential USA-based client, a small business, that has a need for a web application. Their application will have roughly 50 users, essentially a server for small files. I'm researching hosts that are stable, have good support, are easy to deal with, and relatively inexpensive. Can I get recommendations? Thanks! [Yeah, I know I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars -- and will probably have to settle for something less. :-D ]
I also use SmarterAsp.net. I use webhostforasp.net as a secondary provider. I received free package deals for both and have kept them around because why get rid of free, but that was back when they were just starting out. I have had good luck with both of them. Easy control panels, easy to load sites and fairly easy to manage. I would recommend you look at Azure as well. I wouldn't look in any other direction if you are using a .net application as you will probably have too many problems maintaining everything. That is my practical experience, anyway. The problem I have with all of the Cloud solutions is the true hidden cost. If you purchase a hosting account through one of the providers above, you get x space, with y sites, with z databases and everything is spelled out. The last time I looked at Cloud solutions you get some of the same but some of the billing is based on usage volume, number of Mbytes written to the disk or along the lan etc. Before recommending either or choosing a direction, I would see if you could get a true hard fixed, per month cost. That may help. Your client isn't going to care about "if I use this much volume in March, it costs $100, if I use this much volume in April it will cost $200", they are just going to be pissed when their bill doubles. Plus, I have a golden rule that I always use for applications, and that is they will always grow. If you are only using a little bit now, give it a couple years and that will be significantly larger.
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I do that. I offer Plesk based webhosting with not too many restrictions. One .com-Domain included, from $30 each year. Service includes user level ssh-access, custom dns-settings and much more. Just send me a PM and we may talk about it.
Thanks, but I'm not interested in running the hosting. Just looking for a setup for customers which is stable, easy to use (for them), and hassle free (for me).