Do you have experience with Discountasp.net
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Does anyone here have any experience with Discountasp.net? If so, let me know your actual experience, good or bad. I'm looking for a different ASP.NET host, as my service with GoDaddy has become less than acceptable. I looked at the features on Discountasp.net's site and it looks like they offer everything my solution requires. But, then again, so does GoDaddy. Unfortunatley, I frequently have to wait 15 - 30 seconds to have a purely-HTML page with no database access served up from GoDaddy. If you have any other ASP.NET host suggestions, let me have 'em. Thanks. Tim
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Does anyone here have any experience with Discountasp.net? If so, let me know your actual experience, good or bad. I'm looking for a different ASP.NET host, as my service with GoDaddy has become less than acceptable. I looked at the features on Discountasp.net's site and it looks like they offer everything my solution requires. But, then again, so does GoDaddy. Unfortunatley, I frequently have to wait 15 - 30 seconds to have a purely-HTML page with no database access served up from GoDaddy. If you have any other ASP.NET host suggestions, let me have 'em. Thanks. Tim
I've never tried DiscountAsp.net, but... I recommend Azure. For less than $30/month, you can get reliable hosting with a database. For less than $40, you can get two servers, so if one goes down the other is used until the faulty server is brought up (also nice for upgrades, since you can test one server while the other is running, then make the test server a live production server). It's also stupidly easy to upgrade to more powerful servers if your site becomes popular. You actually get to choose which type of server you want, and it shows exactly the resources available to your site. Sites like GoDaddy don't show you that, so you could have 5MB allocated to your site for all you know. There's some learning involved (e.g., for more than one server, you'll want to store session to a database), but it's worth it. And last I checked, they had a free 3-month trial. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/
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Does anyone here have any experience with Discountasp.net? If so, let me know your actual experience, good or bad. I'm looking for a different ASP.NET host, as my service with GoDaddy has become less than acceptable. I looked at the features on Discountasp.net's site and it looks like they offer everything my solution requires. But, then again, so does GoDaddy. Unfortunatley, I frequently have to wait 15 - 30 seconds to have a purely-HTML page with no database access served up from GoDaddy. If you have any other ASP.NET host suggestions, let me have 'em. Thanks. Tim
To give you an idea of why Azure rocks, here is something I just noticed. I have a tool that keeps my websites "alive" by downloading a page on them periodically. It also logs how much time it took to get the page. I started it not too long ago, and here were the first few measurements for some sites I have: Site hosted with PlanetSmb: 1,306ms, 5,213ms, 6,548ms, 3,630ms, 52,869ms. Site hosted with Azure: 1,190ms, 77ms, 106ms, 75ms, 77ms. Site hosted with GoDaddy: 878ms, 399ms, 93ms, 92ms, 102ms. Now, I expect the first hit to take some time, because the site has to load back into memory. However, subsequent hits should not take long at all. The Azure page loads in less than a tenth of a second, whereas the PlanetSmb (a site like GoDaddy) page loads in 5+ seconds, sometimes taking nearly a minute to load. Luckily, my GoDaddy site is performing well at the moment. The only times I ever see Azure that slow are when the server has an issue, but then my site automatically gets redeployed to a new server and the issue fixes itself. To move to a different server on typical web hosts requires you to contact their support. Heck, I think when I talked to PlanetSmb about the slow server issues I had, they said it would not be easy to just transfer everything to a new server (I would need to take backups and restore and such). For reliability, scalability, and speed, Azure rocks.
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Does anyone here have any experience with Discountasp.net? If so, let me know your actual experience, good or bad. I'm looking for a different ASP.NET host, as my service with GoDaddy has become less than acceptable. I looked at the features on Discountasp.net's site and it looks like they offer everything my solution requires. But, then again, so does GoDaddy. Unfortunatley, I frequently have to wait 15 - 30 seconds to have a purely-HTML page with no database access served up from GoDaddy. If you have any other ASP.NET host suggestions, let me have 'em. Thanks. Tim
They're good but once you start including add-ons like SQL Server etc, the price starts becoming less competitive. I've never had any problems and Customer service is good but like I said, the bells and whistles can start to add up.
"You get that on the big jobs."
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I've never tried DiscountAsp.net, but... I recommend Azure. For less than $30/month, you can get reliable hosting with a database. For less than $40, you can get two servers, so if one goes down the other is used until the faulty server is brought up (also nice for upgrades, since you can test one server while the other is running, then make the test server a live production server). It's also stupidly easy to upgrade to more powerful servers if your site becomes popular. You actually get to choose which type of server you want, and it shows exactly the resources available to your site. Sites like GoDaddy don't show you that, so you could have 5MB allocated to your site for all you know. There's some learning involved (e.g., for more than one server, you'll want to store session to a database), but it's worth it. And last I checked, they had a free 3-month trial. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/
Azure has always worried me due to my inability to measure my sites requirements and a fear of receiving a bill for millions - I haven't looked at the pricing recently, so it may have changed, but don't you get charged for everything rather than paying up front for a certain amount? (fron what I remember you have to pay for the number of hours your site is up?) I like to know what I'm up for each month for budgeting purposes - rather than risking a massive biull because I forgot to shut down the dev database...
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Azure has always worried me due to my inability to measure my sites requirements and a fear of receiving a bill for millions - I haven't looked at the pricing recently, so it may have changed, but don't you get charged for everything rather than paying up front for a certain amount? (fron what I remember you have to pay for the number of hours your site is up?) I like to know what I'm up for each month for budgeting purposes - rather than risking a massive biull because I forgot to shut down the dev database...
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
They have multiple types of subscriptions you can sign up to. Some types allow you to purchase set limits, and if those limits are exceeded then your services are disabled (essentially, it turns off your website). I prefer the pay as you go option, though that could theoretically get pricey if you set something up wrong. For example, you should set up your SQL Azure service to run at the site location as your Compute instance (that is essentially your website). If you don't do that, you will be charged for the data transfer between them. What's nice is that if you are just doing development (i.e., not a live production environment), you can turn all services off for a week if you like and it won't charge you for that week. For most services (SQL, Compute), the granularity of this toggling is 1-hour. So you could do some testing for an hour, turn everything off until the next day, then do another hour. You'd only be charged for that hour a day.
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Does anyone here have any experience with Discountasp.net? If so, let me know your actual experience, good or bad. I'm looking for a different ASP.NET host, as my service with GoDaddy has become less than acceptable. I looked at the features on Discountasp.net's site and it looks like they offer everything my solution requires. But, then again, so does GoDaddy. Unfortunatley, I frequently have to wait 15 - 30 seconds to have a purely-HTML page with no database access served up from GoDaddy. If you have any other ASP.NET host suggestions, let me have 'em. Thanks. Tim
I used them a few years ago, customer service was excellent and their tech was first rate, response times left a little to be desired.
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Does anyone here have any experience with Discountasp.net? If so, let me know your actual experience, good or bad. I'm looking for a different ASP.NET host, as my service with GoDaddy has become less than acceptable. I looked at the features on Discountasp.net's site and it looks like they offer everything my solution requires. But, then again, so does GoDaddy. Unfortunatley, I frequently have to wait 15 - 30 seconds to have a purely-HTML page with no database access served up from GoDaddy. If you have any other ASP.NET host suggestions, let me have 'em. Thanks. Tim
I use Arvixe - full asp.net hosting, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwith, SQLServer, MySQL etc - all for $5 per month Few if any problems, good support
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