I agree. I have been hosting several sites with Arvixe for several years and I have no complaints. There are less expensive sites and have been tempted to give Mochahost a try for my new clients but so far, Arvixe has won my business. In the last case, the deciding factor was that they have a data center in Amsterdam and my newest client is in Europe... Mochahost is strictly US. Arvixe support is first rate, very responsive.

I'd value your comments and insights about hosting ASP.NET sites with MS SQLServer on Mochahost. Their service offering seems complete and the pricing is competitive (might even say aggressive). TIA, John

I've hosted four ASP.NET sites with them for the past three years. They are OK, I'd give them a 7/10. Support is OK, albeit the wait can be long on the chat and they are not good with complex configuration issues (have to escalate). The higher volume sites crash periodically and I have to restart the app pool. Their shared servers are pretty overloaded (I am on DOCK.arvixe.com), so initial page loads and SQL queries can be mighty slow. I am thinking of moving my new clients to Mochahost but Mocha does not have a European data center (Arvixe does) -- I have several European clients -- so I am a little torn.

I bought my 920 in the Philippines, it is an open phone. I mostly use it in Europe on the Vodafone network. Right now I am in SE Asia (Bali, Indonesia and the Philippines), this weekend I am off to Hong Kong, then Helsinki and Budapest. The call quality is superb, albeit in the Philippines dropped calls are the norm. It is not Nokia's fault, the same thing happens on my wife's LG Optima.

I've had a Lumia 920 for about a year and I love it, best I've ever owned. At first, there was a glitch with the firmware, but the Nokia Software Updater (now version 4.1.0) took care of it. The Amber update was rock solid, as was Black. I use the phone all the time (email, SMS, Kindle, and best of all navigation). Nokia's turn-by-turn navigation requires no connection of any kind (no WiFi, no cellular data) if you download the country map(s) when connected to WiFi ahead of time. It has too many features that I love to list here (Glance, the camera and the camera software, etc.)

Not true. Developers are the lifeblood of MSFT and we create the ecosystem from which they generate $billions of profit. Unfortunately, they do not understand the developer community. If they did, they would have free MSDN licenses for individual developers and charge for corporate licenses for those who develop commercial products. Developers like me generate huge revenues and profits for MSFT through SQL Server, Office, Azure, etc. licenses yet we have to pay dearly for the privilege (Visual Studio license fees, MSDN subscription, TFS, training fees and alike). It is just sad.

(1) Performance: Faster boot, loading and better execution times. (2) Convergence: Unified OS and UI for desktops, laptops, tablets and phones. (3) Integration: Far better integration with the cloud (SkyDrive, etc.) and web apps. The only negative I have found (and heard from clients) is the learning curve. Get over it. With computers, there is always something new to learn. Just because you've learned something 10 or 20 years ago, it doesn't mean it can support you forever. I do not work for Microsoft. I have Win8 on my desktop, 3 laptops, 2 tablets and my Windows Phone. I am a 63-year-old software developer and I am no gadget geek. I love Windows 8.