How To Choose ASP.NET Web Hosting

ASP.NET web hosting has been getting the attentions from clients especially the massive new generations of .NET developers. ASP.NET hosting services have been rapidly grown its popularity over 40% of the hosting industry. As you can easily explore the public specification on the hosting company website, the article introduces the tips to check whether an ASP.NET hosting is good from its hidden details.
Windows OS: the best chooice for ASP.NET hosting is Windows 2008 certainly. Only Windows 2008 integrates with IIS 7.0 which can better support the .NET technology, E.G. ASP.NET MVC. Take an example, in IIS 6.0 you have to add the .mvc in the URL unless you specify wildcard mapping which is a killer to performance. If the hosting company doesn’t introduce the specific Windows edition publicly, you should be careful on the decision.
R.A.M: this is the maximum memory in the server that can be used for your site, which is configured in IIS application pool. The configuration is not the more the better. Because in most cases, there are hundreds of accounts hosted with the same shared web server. It’s impossible to allocate everyone a great number of memory. Take an example, we assume averagely there are 200 accounts in one shared server, if every account is configured to be 64MB maximumly, the server memory should be 12GB. And actually 12GB momery is a standard configuration for almost web servers. So if your vendor told you that your account has a big number limitation, don’t trust it. Reversely, it’s high possible that your resources could be stole by others.
.NET Trust Level: it’s configured for each website by .NET infrastrcuture. You should know the exact configuration before the payment. In our research, 70% websites can be run only under the fully trust level. If your hosting company doesn’t tell that they support Fully Trust, you should be careful that your website may not run correctly in the host finally. Surely, you can ask for money back but it’s time wasting.
.NET Framework Version: you should know the exact .NET Framework versions supported in the host. It’s the fundemental thing to run your website successfully.
ASP.NET MVC Version: so far, there are three ASP.NET MVC versions, they’re 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0. ASP.NET MVC 3.0 is integrated with .NET Framework 4.0 so if your website is developed based on ASP.NET MVC3, you don’t need to worry about it. But you should ask whether the host supports ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and 2.0.
SQL Server Edition: almost hosting companies provide MS SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. Don’t worry about the Express edition. It’s completely enough for websites having unique IPs less than 5000 per day on both performance, scalability and extensibility. And when the host provides MSSQL 2008 Express, oftenly there is no limitation on database amount or maximum size of a single database. Reversely if the host provide MSSQL Standard or Enterprise Edition, normally there are a lot of limitation on the database operation/management.
Control Panel: Plesk is the best reliable control panel for ASP.NET web hosting but WebsitePanel is the best visual and easy-to-use control panel which is renamed from DotNetPanel in Mar, 2011. These two control panels are both fine in our opinion.

Besides, the advertised unlimited disk space and monthly data transfer is not TRUE. As a economic shared web hosting, your account will be suspended by the vendor if your website costs too many resources. You cannot expect having a medium website and earning a lot of money but only costs less than $10 per month, right? When you have 200 unique IPs per day, you should consider to upgrade to VPS or a dedicated server in our opinion. We think these tips can help you get the best ASP.NET web hosting for your requirement.

These hosting companies are providing cost effective ASP.NET plans in the industry,
HostGator – the private windows web hosting starts with only $4.46/month. Read HostGator reviews here.
Arvixe – the personal class ASP.NET hosting costs only $3.5/month, offering 1 free domain and supporting up to 6 hosting domains. Read Arvixe reviews here.
Micfo – their unlimited Windows hosting costs only $4.25/month, including 1 free domain, 1 dedicated IP address and up to 10 addon domain support.

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