There is elastic beanstalk and azure. You can get linux vps at many places for aroudn $5 a month (digital ocean etc) and then use ftp and the mysql db with your shared hosting option. I highly recommend this option. The reason behind shared web hosting moving away from windows servers is that it's windows. They cost wise are hard to maintain, patch, and keep secure. a2hosting which is the best bang for the bug was down 1 month 1/2 this year and there are no better alternatives at that price. I heavily recommend linux hosting. IIS has some nice features, but windows are notoriously easier to hack into than linux boxes. Until they upgrade kerstrel to the same level of functionality as IIS I don't see shared web hosts supporting IIS yet. Some shared webhosts let you ssh in nonroot and run services through an apache proxy. I've gotten this working with a2hostings shared linux solution I can run python, ruby, and nodejs applications on a port in the instance and reverse proxy to the port using the apache config. It usually goes down when they periodly restart my instance. I tried getting dotnet 2 working before, but it wouldn't I know that dotnet 3 has better support though.