Hosting of website

[ASmee]

I am looking for reccomendations from people regarding hosting an ASP web site with a MS Access backend. I think I need between 100MB - 250MB of space. Anyone know a good provider that isn't too expensive that can meet my needs, not too much money at the moment..

Thanks

 

[VBRookie]

Well I'm currently hosting sites with two hosting companies. WebHost4life (

http://www.webhost4life.com/)

and HostMySite (

http://www.hostmysite.com/).

Ive found webhost4life to be more economical but hostmysite's customer service I think is superior although webhost4life has good customer service too.

For future sites though I will likely go with webhost4life because of the cost benefits (they also have an affiliate program) and also because through their online system I can pretty much manage everything ... even my sql database (they have access and mysql accounts too).

But I think that both are very good hosting companies.

Hope this helps ...
- VB Rookie

 

[Tarwn]

I've been using DiscountASP.Net for a few sites. Excellent web admin tools for your account, 150Mb space to start with, bandwidth and usage tracking, ability to add acount options straight through the admin web interface, 50 POP accts, ability to create DSNs through interface, MySQL and SQL Server options. Heck they even say have diesal backup generators. I'm paying $10/month and they do a 3 month free offer if you pay for a year up front.
They also cover a lot of options (ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, etc) with additional packages available beyond base installs.

Compare to my previous host (at $1 less a month) this place is eveything I could ever want

They also have built in statistics coming from IIS that you can get in raw or graphical format, I haven't seen what you get for paying forthe better stats options, the basic ones are good enough for me.

-T

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The never-completed website:

http://www.tiernok.com/

 

[dbMark]

Tarwn and VBRookie,

I looked at those sites over the weekend and I thank you for mentioning them. I thought I'd help someone open a simple website, composed mainly of just a bunch of pages under a menu with some assoted links, nothing demanding, but I wanted to stick with HTML, VBScript, JavaScript and ASP (I don't know ASP.NET) but most sites either don't offer older ASP or they require you to upgrade to a higher service/fee level to use it. Before my search here I hadn't seen any of those sites. I'd checked iPowerWeb, LunarPages, StartLogic, even Yahoo.

If all these sites have standard visual menu structures available, then maybe I don't have to worry about ASP? (There may be other ways to place mmenus on the page, but using server includes is what ASP can do - make changes in one place to be reflected in menus on every page.)

WebHost4Life looks the best for me since it's a small price and has ASP 3 at the basic level.

DiscountASP.net also looked good with ASP 3 at the basic level too but the basic plan is a bit more expensive. Of course, I'm not sure that they're both including or excluding domain name registrations, etc.

dbMark

 

[way2many]

http://www.aspwebserver.com/

I just opened free testing account with them for one customer and after that there was a promo page somewhere: 1GB reseller account for 10 domains w/40GB/mnth traffic for $1/year an $100/year after.
I paid my $1 and ... it is working fine.
Control panel is very basic but easy to use.

Another reliable asp host

http://www.savinghosting.com

- $5/m

I most of my websites on

http://www.reseller-center.com

- H-Sphere control panel is amazing! Suport is super! They install any components you'd want and they support asp, php, .net & CF.

And the last one is famous

http://www.brinkster.com

 

[dbMark]

I've been doing some additional research and found a feature I liked, the service a few hosting sites proved to handle phones, email and mail so that my personal information is not on the web. So far I've seen it only with Network Solutions and GoDaddy.com. Here's what's missing from the ones on my short list:

Brinkster - allow only 1-year domain registrations; POP3 not IMAP
WebHost4Life - no domain registrations (what?!?); $20 setup fee
AspWebServer - demo didn't work for me; basic reseller hosting limited to 10 domains/subs
GoDaddy - no subdomains

I sort of like Brinkster best since it had most of my wish list (ASP3, FrontPage 2003; domain registration with first free, generous 30GB bandwidth, email accounts), although WebHosting4Life was nearly a tie, but where's a good place for me to get my domains registered that it won't handle? I'm starting off with .com and .us at first. I guess I want the option to add domains and/or subdomains for the future.

Next is cnet.com for their listing of web hosting companies. They sent me to webhostingratings.com and there I found namecheap.com which offers both domain name registration and WhoIsGuard, free for first year. Hmmm, maybe I can use webhost4life after all...

 

[dbMark]

I took the hint from the green (ad) links and checked out registerfly.com. Seems to have almost everything I want. One minor limitation is that the basic plan allows only 1 subdomain and the better one just 5, not that I'll ever need them all, just want to ensure mydomain.com and

http://www.mydomain.com

both work and point to the site.

 

[dbMark]

They told me each domain automatically got www and I guess ftp too, so I guess subdomains are not that much of an issue. (Sorry, in my previous post I meant the "mydomain.com" references just as examples, but I guess it really is yet another hosting site.)

Anyway, I've started with registerFly.com, buying 6 domains. I used offers at their promotion codes site theflypaper.com to get domain discounts and free WhoIs protection. (See my wife's new

http://www.ilovemyoils.com

on which I hope to have the home page up and running soon for her naturally fragrant and healthful Essential Oils. Right now I think I have a password conflict somewhere or lockout after too many failed trys and it won't let me log in to "publish" the page to the domain, so if even programmers have problems what about the novices?)

But in all my site searching I lost track of limitations. I bought the basic SiteBuilder that limited me to a home page and 3 pages. Ouch! The 3 plans offered allow 3, 10 or 30 pages. Even 30 is too limiting. I guess I'll switch now and go buy FrontPage since it allows ASP too.

 

[MoLaker]

I've been using

http://www.cheapesthosting.com

at $7.95/mo with no setup fee for 100 MB (additonal space available). They offer several handy features, including ASP 3.0 & ASP.NET, Frontpage support, MySQL, automated DSN creation, Snitz Forum, MS Access support and much more. So far, so good after over a year.