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Affordable, Stable, ASP.NET MVC Hosting Exist?

I'm using webhost4life shared hosting right now. They have a 99.99% up-time guarantee, but it is definitely not. Their support has been good when I do contact them, but it's just not stable. The site will just go down at random times for 5-10 minutes at a time. I know I'm on shared hosting, but I was hoping it would be more stable than...

Another Hosting Question: Linux, Apache2, PHP5, PostGreSQL 8.3

Hello SO, I'm hoping that someone will be able to recommend a good hosting company that provides the following environment. I know that I could just google for one, but I'm asking here first because I'm looking for someone that has previous experience working with such a company. Linux Box. Apache 2.0. PHP5 (5.2.6 to be exact). PostG...

CMS for a personal website - ASP.NET/C#

I plan to create a community website aimed at publishing ASP.NET articles, blogs, forums and video tutorials. I am considering DNN and MojoPortal. Some of my requirements are: An editor that lets me post code with ease Open source preferably written in C# Easy to export content if there is a need to switch CMS Some way of easily posti...

Where to find a comparison between best asp.net webhosting companies?

Want to find a good comparison between web hosting companies which support asp.net Thanks, ...

Does file size matter when deciding to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?

I'm trying to figure out the effectiveness of using a CDN versus hosting images locally. Assuming that our load is such that serving an image or javascript file from the same server that is hosting the HTML content will not be any slower when compared against using a CDN, at what point does locality take effect? My understanding of how ...

I need a new hosting company (LAMP), suggestions?

I need a new hosting company (LAMP), suggestions? ...

using full domains in a multi-site application set up

hi, i'm building a multi-site application where a client must be able to use his own domain (as oppose to just a subdomain). i like to know the different ways to go about it, and what configuration is needed on both end when/if the client wishes to handle email hosting externally. any reference to lxadmin/hypervm would be helpful too. t...

Finding a blog site with good code block support.

This has probably been asked before but I can't find any relevant post using the search system. I'm looking for a site where I could host my own blog. Unfortunately, I found none that have the kind of code block friendliness found on our very own stackoverflow (not one where you have to manually convert < and > into &lt; and &gt;). If ...

Distributable ASP.NET web server for a commercial product

Does anybody know of a commercially supported distributable web server that can host ASP.NET applications? I have a commercial server based application to which I want to add a web interface (sort of like a portal for clients.) I cannot expect that all of my customers will have, or want to run, IIS. Cassini seems a bit limited withou...

How can I find out why my app is slow?

I have a simple Rails app deployed on a 500 MB Slicehost VPN. I'm the only one who uses the app. When I run it on my laptop, it's fast enough. But the deployed version is insanely slow. It take 6 to 10 seconds to load the login screen. I would like to find out why it's so slow. Is it my code? (Don't think so because it's much faster loc...

How Much Traffic Can Shared Web Hosting Take?

I have a cheap shared hosting plan with Reliablesite.net ($5/month). I've been making a small site I want to start promoting in a few weeks and I was going to roadtest it by hosting it with the shared plan I already have. My issue is that I don't know at what point I should move onto clustered hosting / dedicated hosting. Questions ...

.Net Hosting (Flexable Medium Trust)

Any recommendations for cheap .Net hosting that has flexible medium trust rules allowing the use of reflection? ...

Can WordPress install on IIS and how?

Can wordpress install on a IIS hosting? If yes, which is better and more simple, on IIS6 or IIS7? And how to install it on IIS? ...

My IP seems to be blocked by web hosting server...

Hi All I have a strange problem, i just installed my php web site on a shared hosting, all services were working fine. But after configuring my app i just could visit my web site only once, other attempts gives "The server is taking too long to respond.". But from other IP i can access, but only once, it seems all ip addressess beeing b...

How Much Traffic Can Shared Web Hosting (for a Python Django site) support?

Someone in this thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/685162/how-much-traffic-can-shared-web-hosting-take stated that a $5/mo shared hosting account on Reliablesite.net can support 10,000 - 20,000 unique users/day and 100,000 - 200,000 pageviews/day. That seems awfully high for a $5/mo account. And someone else told me it's far le...

How does Google App Engine compare to web hosting plans?

Google App Engine offers free quotas of 1 GB outbound traffic per day and 6.5 CPU-hours (based on a 1.2 GHz Intel x86 processor) per day. How do those free quotas compare to web hosting plans? For example, the traffic supported by the free quotas -- is that generally higher or less than the traffic supported by a typical $5/mo shared ho...

How do I run my own web server from home?

Hi, I thinking taking my website off of a shared hosting plan and hosting my own web server to save some $$$. I never hosted a website before and I’m very new to this. I’m using ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2005 Express. The laptop I will use as the web server runs on Windows XP, 1GB DDR SDRAM, a AMD Turion 64 mobile technology ML-30 / 1....

Is it possible to host an ASPX web page, in a stand alone application, outside of IIS

I have a thick GUI application (possibly running as a service, but also just as a normal application) on a desktop. I would like to expose a web interface to the application for some remote monitoring and control of the application. I currently am hosting a WCF service that just returns HTML in the application, which works fine, but opt...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of self-hosting?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of self-hosting something like a svn repository? All links and ideas are appreciated. Off the top of my head: Advantages of Self-hosting Flexibility. On my own machine I can install whatever I want. If I would like to use a vcs like Bazaar and use Loggerhead instead of Trac, then right now th...

How to measure geographical access time of a web hosting?

I'm building a website targeted for US visitors; and this question came up while shopping around for reliable web hosting there. Since I'm located in the UK, a simple "ping" wouldn't represent the average access time from a US visitor's point of view -which is critical, since a new visitor spends around 3 seconds to evaluate a website. ...