Best Hosting Sites

[RickatRITE]

Hello,

We are developing against RC3 and will be moving the site to hosting soon - does anyone have any feedback on the best hosting sites for this product?

I've heard discountasp.com is good. How about 1and1.com? I know 1and1.com doesn't work with aspdotnetstorefront does NOT work with 1and1 well but the sales guy at able said this was specifically desgined to work with any hosting site.

Any feedback? Thanks in advance!

[jmestep]

I just moved 3 sites to Drundo.net as a result of working with someone else moving his site there. They are familiar with Able and so far have been very good.

[banders]

We use both 1and1 and theplanet.com for our http://www.bcgen.com distributed barcode servers. We are using 1and1.com enterprise 1 server for Ablecommerce 7.0 and it works well. Both hosting companies are good and not in areas of the country prone to natural disasters such as Florida and California.

Banders
http://www.idautomation.com/
Barcode Automation Components

[chad08]

Judy,
Have you been happy with your site's speed at Druno.net?

We have been building a new site at DiscountASP and find the 15 second delay when you first hit the site quite annoying. I understand that it's from ASPNET shutting down after inactivity. Can this be improved on a shared site? Do you have that delay at Druno?

Thanks for any info,
Chad

[jmestep]

I haven't had a problem with the speed at Drundo. Here is one of the sites:
http://www.affordablewater.us
Another is the paintball portion of http://www.anythingxtreme.com, which is up for information purposes only- no checkout.


I'm getting ready to move my dotnetnuke site there and I might have the delay with it because it doesn't have much traffic. It's at GoDaddy now and there is a delay. http://www.beentherewebs.com

[sunpost]

Judy,
We have been building a new site at DiscountASP and find the 15 second delay when you first hit the site quite annoying. I understand that it's from ASPNET shutting down after inactivity. Can this be improved on a shared site? Do you have that delay at Druno?

If you have a machine that is always on you can try SmarterPing...
http://www.smartertools.com/forums/t/14404.aspx
Set it to hit your site every 15 minutes to keep the site loaded.

There are also site monitor companies that ping sites, which will be able to keep the site alive.

DNN has a file to hit for this purpose, KeepAlive.aspx

good luck

[jmestep]

Thanks for that link. I had done some searching for a way to ping, but hadn't found anything free.

[RickatRITE]

Thanks for all the great feedback everyone.

Based on Banders feedback I'm going to try the 1and1 MS Developer hosting package (like $20 a month - cheap!).

If anyone has any additional thoughts let me know, thanks again!

[chad08]

Yes, thanks for the SmarterPing link. The program works well and got rid of the delay. I also found DiscountASP provides their own pinging tool in the control panel under scheduled tasks.
Chad

[ryankivi1]

Anyone get this to work on 1and1.com .. I'm having a heck of a time.. Also very new to windows hosting.

Regards,

[jmestep]

Are you referring to the Smarter Ping? You install that on your desktop computer and you can add the URLs you want pinged. The only problem I have had is configuring it to start again when I've restarted my computer. I've got it to run as a service and start automatically, but I still have to remember to start it manaully.

[ryankivi1]

No just trying to install the software. Get errors:

Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Source Error:

Line 86: <compilation debug="false" strict="false" explicit="false">
Line 87: <assemblies>
Line 88: <add assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
Line 89: <add assembly="System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
Line 90: <add assembly="System.Transactions, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>


Source File: E:\kunden\homepages\21\d244647758\able\web.config Line: 88

Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' could not be loaded.

[nickc]

Hmm. Not really related to this thread.

You need to install ASP.NET AJAX on the server:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

[ryankivi1]

Sorry thought the topic was hosting sites.. .. Not sure I can install that on the shared server. So was hoping someone had a basis point to tell me if its even possible.

Regards,

[jmestep]

You can install it on a shared server. You need to download it, then copy it up ftp. If your host doesn't allow that, you will need to host elsewhere because the software won't run without it.