Best quality/price shared Web Hosting for Asp.Net Mvc

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Best quality/price shared Web Hosting for Asp.Net Mvc

I am having several problems deploying my Asp.Net MVC application with my current web hosting and I am thinking about trying a new one.

What is in your opinion the one with best quality/price that allows to easily deploy ASP.Net MVC applications?

Thanks!

+6 A:

I host my sites with Server Intellect, they are extremely helpful and fulfill all of my custom modification requests. The hosting plans are very affordable. If they don't already have MVC available I'm sure they would have little problems adding it for you.

http://www.serverintellect.com

ADD: I have also hosted with Crystal Tech (the host for StackOverflow) and they do a great job as well.

Ryan Eastabrook 2008-11-21 20:30:15

I have been with Server Intellect for just over a year, very good host, and VERY quick with their support.

Tom Anderson 2009-04-25 00:23:45

yes, I was having a problem with payment and they would like to call me to kuwait

Anwar Chandra 2009-11-05 13:59:48

Did you really successfully deployed ASP.NET MVC installation on serverintellect *shared* hosting? I am having troubles with URL routings, basically every View apart from Index is ending with 404. I've tried using the ".mvc" routing workaround - no success.

Darius 2010-01-28 14:32:54

Yes, I had to have them add a wildcard mapping because they are still using IIS6, they had no issues doing it: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2008/07/04/options-for-deploying-aspnet-mvc-to-iis-6/

Ryan Eastabrook 2010-02-02 23:36:43

I also managed to get everything work. Their support is ultra-fast!

Darius 2010-02-07 15:22:29

+5 A:

I have hosted an ASP.NET MVC with discountASP.NET, they do a good job.

MrJavaGuy 2008-11-21 20:34:34

I've hosted with crystalTech for about 8 years now. Unfortunately in the last year or so they've fallen behind again. They don't offer Windows 2008 or SQL 2008 on shared hosting and haven't really explained when that will change.

Steve Sheldon 2008-11-21 21:19:40

+2 A:

I use SoftSysHosting. I have not tried any MVC sites on it, but normal asp.net sites work well with them.

MVC is supposed to be bin deployable so I would think it would work.

I'm interested to hear what host you went with and if they are good.

Update: I've since deployed a couple of sites using asp.net mvc and they work well on softsyshosting. I really have nothing but good things to say about them, especially support.

metanaito 2008-12-24 02:14:21

I have a VPS with SoftSysHosting, and so far (3 months) the experience has been enjoyable, the one time I needed support, they were prompt and effective.

Gregory 2009-10-09 05:51:55

+3 A:

I host my aspnet mvc app with http://www.webhost4life.com/ unlimited bandwidth and like 300gigs of space for US$20 a month (thats 300g server space and 3gb MSSQL space). i think thats pretty good (not any more, see below)

they have good 24/7 Live Chat support people which is important to me. they help me sort out issues i'm not totally savvy with.

yes, mvc is bin deployable, but the routes will not work without wildcard mapping, which the wethost4life support staff will gladly set up for you (like they did for me).

some good mvc deploy info:

EDIT: I'll be honest, their support is not fantastic.. but after having looked a lot, you really cant find ASP.NET 3.5 IIS6 or 7 hosting with 3 MSSQL DBs and 3gb of MSSQL DB space for less than 20 bucks a month.

ANOTHER EDIT: Their support is crap!
I've had the worst experience recently after they "migrated" my services (asp.net mvc sites and 100's of mailboxes) to a 'new platform' ~~place in Hell even satan fears to go~~. Check out these links - i've virtually had the same problems as the reports on those sites. Stay away! I Beg you!

cottsak 2009-01-31 08:51:52

Unlimited bandwidth is always at best a blatant lie.

Gregory 2009-10-09 05:50:05

@Gregory: do you think you could expand on that?

cottsak 2009-10-09 14:38:19

It's "unlimited" until you start using too much of it... I used to have webhost4life and I really didn't like them, servers ran way too slow for my liking.

Shawn Steward 2009-12-21 17:16:12

I'll admit that the server does not seem that great performance wise.

cottsak 2009-12-22 10:50:22

I've also found Webhost4life'sservers to be getting slower and slower as well and I've been with them for 4 years. However, one really good thing about them is that you can setup multiple web application roots (although each extra domain costs per year, and that isn't so transparent to begin with). I'm trialling Winhost.com at the moment and they only support domain pointers which suck.

Junto 2010-02-22 22:15:27

@Junto did you notice them migrating to new hardware and a new Control Panel recently? im not saying this will improve things, but i was just interested if it's happening for all customers?

cottsak 2010-02-24 15:23:58

all: Webhost4life officially sux in my book! Since they "migrated" their hardware; customer service/support team; and all morals and ethics, value has bottomed out for me. I'm trying to figure out how o can move elsewhere. Ref: http://www.lyndonreid.com/webhost4life-sucks and: http://webhost4lifecustomers.ning.com/

cottsak 2010-05-29 09:33:03

I used to be a big fan of webhost4life; hosted with them for _years_, always thinking that the reason my sites were slow was as a result of using the-performance-nightmare-also-known-as-DotNetNuke. After ridding myself of that PITA, I deployed my sites using simpler ASP.NET code, and realized just how bad their hardware really was. I switched to GoDaddy for hosting, and it was much better as far as speed. The downside is that their shared hosting is fairly restrictive with regards to the trust issues. C'est la vie!

Jason Bunting 2010-06-13 22:24:57

+4 A:

I am hosting an MVC app with ServerIntellect.
At time of writing, $15/mo (Tier 1 Shared Hosting Plan) will get you

1.5 GB storage
250 MB MSSQL
.NET 3.5

MVC is not explicitly advertised. It can work if you:

bin deploy a few MVC assemblies. Phil Haack explains here.
have ServerIntellect switch your site to Full Trust. Their Medium Trust mode was too restrictive to allow standard MVC applications (a Reflection conflict, they claim).
modify the Route Table. ServerIntellect is using IIS6 on their shared hosting which does not allow the new ASP.NET Routing. I modified Global.asax.cs as shown in Listing 3 on this page.

Others have claimed that discountasp.net offers Full Trust and MVC out of the box, but I have no experience with them, and they do cost slightly more per month if you include MSSQL.

hyperslug 2009-05-12 17:25:09

Nice profile image :)

ripper234 2010-05-01 04:17:43

I am using Winhost.com a very good and cheap one.

Mariano 2009-12-21 16:55:37

I just switched to http://hostingfest.com/

Full Trust so you can run NHibernate w/out having to do anything special
.NET 3.5 SP1 + MVC Support
2 GB disk / 30 GB bandwidth / 2 MS SQL databases - $31.87 for the YEAR with domain name

UPDATE

This host is now running IIS 7 on Win Server 2008 including SQL Server 2008 R2. The bottom price plans include a lot for the money ($20) a year w/out domain name

I'm running full trust apps on IIS 7.5 + MVC2 and it's rock solid so far

Toran Billups 2009-12-28 01:30:04

Your comment has led me to give them a try for a client's simple home-based-business website. I'm hoping to use the new ASP.NET MVC based Orchard CMS framework, which requires full trust. They now have Win. Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, and that's what I needed. I hope it goes well. My only comment/concern thus far is that out of the 5 emails generated within the first 10 minutes of my placing the order, none of them indicate whether I am going to have to wait 24 hours or more for the hosting features to kick in - almost 24 hours later, the account details indicate it is still pending. :(

Jason Bunting 2010-06-13 23:02:57

I just bought 1 month of Basic Plan (5$) to try it out. My status is also pending... How much time did you have to wait?

Paulo Manuel Santos 2010-08-22 19:32:29

+1 A:

Since discountASP gets a lot of good rep on SO, I'd also like to add my own experience with them.

I've tried discountASP.NET for 2 months and was very disappointed by their server's performance.

The SQL server was very fast, but the web server seemed to be overloaded. During busy daytimes even trivial web pages in an almost empty test ASP.NET MVC project would take anywhere from 200 ms to 5 seconds to load.

Their support only tried to find excuses and blamed my software (even though it was just a trivial test project).

Then I moved to a dedicated server. It was only marginally more expensive since I required quite a few of the extras at discountASP and now the site is blazing fast at all times. I would not go back even if discountASP paid me to do it.

Adrian Grigore 2010-05-05 22:00:54

+1 A:

People - be very careful of DiscountAsp. They have a great reputation, but they are pricey and there is NO sql server included by default - thats 10 bucks extra a month.

Just do your homework. I did not and I paid 40 bucks to learn a hard lesson.

Burke Holland 2010-05-11 19:31:44

+1 A:

Let me share you my experience too.

So far I have been with 2 of hosting companies and I would like to share what my real experience with them.

Web Host 4 Life For Support I would give them 1 out of 5 They were good with their support in past, but with new platform, they seems to be very bad with support, even critical issue like website down is taken very lightly, It takes about 2-3 days to solve such a critical issue, and their chat support is only good for solving small issues

For Price I would give them 3 out of 5 There are many cheap web hosting provider with same service they are providing.

Arvixe For Support I would give them 0 out of 5 They attract us by low hosting price but their support is worst, rude and sometime no support at all. If you believe me, you would find them very unprofessional in dealing with your site issues. Later i figure out they are newbie in hosting, so nothing better to expect from them...

Price wise they are good, but again without proper support nothing goes good forever.

Maria 2010-06-13 03:36:36

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