{"id":185,"date":"2007-10-15T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkesy.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/15\/hosting-opinions-please\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T15:50:24","slug":"hosting-opinions-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/15\/hosting-opinions-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting Opinions Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could i have your opinion please?<\/p>\n<p>You can do all the research you like but\u00a0nothing beats hearing real world experiences\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This season i agreed to create (and maintain!) a web site for the football team i play for.<\/p>\n<p>So far the reception has been pretty good but lots of\u00a0people are used to sites like myspace, facebook, flickr, etc and want to be able to login and contribute themselves. I&#8217;ve been toying with some ideas and i thought i&#8217;d do something in ASP.NET but at the moment the site is hosted from the free webspace i got with my broadband<\/p>\n<p>I posted ages ago about my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/parkesy.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/27\/blind-leading-the-blind\/\" title=\"Blind leading the blind\" class=\"broken_link\">dabblings with Visual Web Developer Express<\/a>\u00a0but it&#8217;s something i&#8217;m still pretty new to but i find the best way to learn is by getting stuck in<\/p>\n<p>So basically i&#8217;m looking for a web host to look after the site. As time goes by i may need to host other sites (depending on how much succcess i have!) but not a big deal at the moment<\/p>\n<p>My criteria is pretty simple<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ASP.NET 2.0 support\u00a0 (well duh?!)<\/li>\n<li>Price &#8211; I&#8217;m doing this out of the goodness of my heart and is still just a hobby so don&#8217;t want it to cost me too much. I&#8217;m not asking for free but it can&#8217;t break the bank as i wont be getting any money back from it<\/li>\n<li>Support &#8211; since i&#8217;m still pretty new to ASP.NET i&#8217;d like a reasonable level of support. I&#8217;m not asking for hand holding but if i ask a question to do with my hosting  package i&#8217;d like an answer i can trust. There is nothing worse when your having\u00a0a problem, you ask for help and that help turns out to make things worse!<\/li>\n<li>Reliable &#8211; obviously since i&#8217;m asking for cheap i&#8217;m not expecting 99.999% uptime but i&#8217;d like the site to be accessible when my team mates try and access it<\/li>\n<li>Database support &#8211; as long as it works it doesn&#8217;t matter what type of database!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After that i&#8217;m pretty flexible on storage space, traffic limits, et al (it doesn&#8217;t even have to be UK based)<\/p>\n<p>The reason i&#8217;m asking is that from a business perspective we use <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1and1.co.uk\" title=\"1and1\">1and1<\/a>\u00a0to provide our customers with some webspace and look after their domain names. Nothing complicated, so on that front we don&#8217;t have any problems.<\/p>\n<p>Since i&#8217;m already familiar with their control panel, accounts, billing, etc i thought i&#8217;d look at them first and fired off a few questions about ASP.NET support and setup (since the help files on the subject aren&#8217;t great) and the answers i got back for what i considered pretty simple questions didn&#8217;t fill me with confidence. After having a look around for other support experiences i started to look elsewhere but everyone offers the earth and i&#8217;d like to just pick a host and get on with it<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got one or\u00a0two names in mind already but just wanted to see if there were any other suggestions<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could i have your opinion please? 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