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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?
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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are they reliable? responsive?
Bryian Tan
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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Super Lloyd wrote:
on the other hand it will be a good learning experience!
Ah, yes, Linux with .NET core -- I would recommend [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/) -- I used it to host a Ruby on Rails X| website once and found working with DO a very positive experience.
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thanks! :)
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It will be a great learning experience! For the performance i didn't pay attention to it because its just for learning experience. :-) For db support you can go PostgreSql and EF core with this provider: GitHub - npgsql/Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL: Entity Framework Core provider for PostgreSQL[^]
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coolio! :)
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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.
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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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](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/free/search/?&OCID=AID719799\_SEM\_DEeD0Vie&lnkd=Google\_Azure\_Brand&dclid=CjgKEAiAuMTfBRD7yYi78uvrmHgSJACUJBSUuYJUC9ck-yODKij5BpThDlxf0xoZMVfskfaZVDL8L\_D\_BwE)! [Discount ASP](https://discountasp.net/asp.net-hosting/plan/) seems good .. Any other suggestion and / or recommendations?
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I use DiscountASP.Net and they have given me no problems for the last six or seven years. They always have the latest everything available and it all just works. Not too expensive either, but I don't have any database, just a web-site and an automated process that runs daily to update an online game (data stored in flat files).
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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](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/free/search/?&OCID=AID719799\_SEM\_DEeD0Vie&lnkd=Google\_Azure\_Brand&dclid=CjgKEAiAuMTfBRD7yYi78uvrmHgSJACUJBSUuYJUC9ck-yODKij5BpThDlxf0xoZMVfskfaZVDL8L\_D\_BwE)! [Discount ASP](https://discountasp.net/asp.net-hosting/plan/) seems good .. Any other suggestion and / or recommendations?
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In my opinion, Azure, AWS, etc., are all a scam for the hobbyist - minimal storage space, microbrain virtual processor and memory, etc. Granted, they provide great services for corporations, but as a hobbyist, no way, no how, am I going to suffer the inequities of someone else's concept of "free" and what I get for "free", until they change their minds. So in my opinionated opinion, host the site yourself. Buy a cheap domain name for $5 /yr, get a free SSL cert from LetsEncrypt, and set up your router to accept ports 80 & 443. Read [my article](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1194823/Self-Hosting-Multiple-HTTPS-Websites-in-IIS-with-S) on how to set up IIS and obtain your SSL cert, and start serving! Take control of your web server! :-D
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Why not rent some rack space? Unless you have an ISP that gives you bearable upload bandwidth?
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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](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/free/search/?&OCID=AID719799\_SEM\_DEeD0Vie&lnkd=Google\_Azure\_Brand&dclid=CjgKEAiAuMTfBRD7yYi78uvrmHgSJACUJBSUuYJUC9ck-yODKij5BpThDlxf0xoZMVfskfaZVDL8L\_D\_BwE)! [Discount ASP](https://discountasp.net/asp.net-hosting/plan/) seems good .. Any other suggestion and / or recommendations?
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In my opinion, you can’t go wrong with Azure. Everyone has different levels of “hobbyist”. A better idea would be to setup a budget and see who (and what products) fit inside it. I hosted ~many~ sites in Azure for free. I wanted custom domains, Let’s Encrypt support, and a few others features… so I setup a VM which costs me around $50 a month. I now run a dozen (or so) sites on that VM, setup a Kubernetes cluster, got gigs in block storage, and other stuff… for around $200. Personally, I feel free is usually a lie and never worth the actual cost. Besides, companies pay for Azure, AWS, and Google cloud experience. Not so much the smaller providers. Spending a little bit of $ might help to you land a high paying job.
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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](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/free/search/?&OCID=AID719799\_SEM\_DEeD0Vie&lnkd=Google\_Azure\_Brand&dclid=CjgKEAiAuMTfBRD7yYi78uvrmHgSJACUJBSUuYJUC9ck-yODKij5BpThDlxf0xoZMVfskfaZVDL8L\_D\_BwE)! [Discount ASP](https://discountasp.net/asp.net-hosting/plan/) seems good .. Any other suggestion and / or recommendations?
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https://www.winhost.com ASP.NET Hosting | Windows Hosting at Winhost I am with them for about 7 years and their support is great. You may chose a plan that fits you best. I have two hosting plans with them: - "basic" for personal stuff I may experiment once on a while - "max" to host a website for an organization.
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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](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/free/search/?&OCID=AID719799\_SEM\_DEeD0Vie&lnkd=Google\_Azure\_Brand&dclid=CjgKEAiAuMTfBRD7yYi78uvrmHgSJACUJBSUuYJUC9ck-yODKij5BpThDlxf0xoZMVfskfaZVDL8L\_D\_BwE)! [Discount ASP](https://discountasp.net/asp.net-hosting/plan/) seems good .. Any other suggestion and / or recommendations?
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I would not recommend asphostportal. Support is spotty - some good, some bad. Responses are typically overnight (not within hours). Their email service is spotty. They don't really support Cloudflare DNS - if you use it then the email service doesn't work - if you drop Cloudflare to make it work then it is spotty. I am considering a switch to a2hosting. Anyone have experience with this one?