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    <p>Disclaimer: <em>I have browsed <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net+hosting">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net+hosting</a> and didn’t find anything quite similar in value to <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dreamhost</a>.</em> </p> <p>One of the biggest impediments IMHO for developing web applications on asp.net is the cost of deployment. I am not talking about building sites like Stackoverflow.com or plentyoffish.com. This is about sites that are bigger than brochureware and smaller than ones that require dedicated servers. </p> <p>Let me give you an example.</p> <p><a href="http://xmec.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">xmec.org</a> is an asp.net site I maintain for my college alumni. On an average it’s slated to hit around 1000-1100 views per day.<br> At present it’s hosted on godaddy. The service is so damn pathetic; I am using it only because of the lack of options. The site doesn’t scale (no, it’s not the code) and the web control panels are extremely slow. The money I pay doesn’t justify the service or the performance. Every deployment push is a visit to the infuriating web control panel to set the permissions and the root directories. </p> <p>Had I developed it in python, this would have been deployed on <a href="https://signup.dreamhost.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dreamhost.com</a> with</p> <ul> <li>$10/year hosting fees (<a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/limited-time-sale-going-on-now.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">they have offers running all throughout</a>)</li> <li>50 GB space</li> <li>5 MySQL Databases </li> <li>Shell / FTP Users</li> <li>POP / SMTP Access</li> <li>Unlimited Domains hosting</li> <li>Unlimited Sub domains hosting</li> <li>Unlimited Domains</li> <li>Forwarded/Mirrored</li> <li>Custom DNS<br> (These are the only ones I could think of. More at the <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">feature page</a>) </li> </ul> <p>With a dream host shell, I even have a svn checked-out version of wordpress for my blog. Now, that’s control!</p> <p><strong>To my question:</strong><br> Is there any asp.net (preferably .net 3.5. Dreamhost keeps on updating versions every fortnight) hosting company providing remotely similar feature-sets and pricing like Dreamhost.</p> <p>My requirements are: </p> <ul> <li>Less than $15-25/ year</li> <li>Typical <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspirit/archive/2007/10/12/is-wisp-the-new-lamp.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WISP</a> minus PHP</li> <li>.net 3.5 SP1</li> <li>Full Trust mode(<em>I can live with medium trust, if not for the IL emitting libraries</em>)</li> <li>Isolated Application Pool</li> <li>5 – 10 MySQL db’s</li> <li>Unlimited domain hosting</li> <li>MsSql 2005 or 2008</li> <li>FTP support</li> <li>At Least 5 GB space</li> <li>SMTP</li> <li>IIS 7</li> <li>Log files Accessibility</li> <li>Moderately good control panel</li> <li>Scripting, shell support</li> <li>Nominal bandwidth</li> </ul> <p><strong><em>Another case in point:</em></strong> </p> <p>Recently I’ve been contemplating building a tool-website to find duplicates and weird characters in my Google contacts and fix them.<br> With asp.net, the best part is that I can do this with <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387098.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LINQ to XML</a> in less than 100 lines of code.<br> What’s bad is the hosting part. I don’t think I stand to make any money out of this and therefore can’t afford to host it on GoGrid or DiscountAsp.net. Godaddy is not an option either. </p> <p>If I do this in python, I can push to this my existing $10 Dreamhost account with another domain pointed. No extra cost. Svn exported with scripts (capability) to change the connection string! </p> <p>Looking at the problem holistically, I think I represent a large breed of programmers playing it cheap and experimenting different things on a regular basis, one of which will become the next twitter/digg. </p>
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    1. COAre you sure you don't mean $15/MONTH instead of $15/year for hosting? I feel your pain. I've gone as far as specing out how much it would cost to build and colocate a Win 2008 R2 server at a datacenter. If a few other folks wanted to chip in on something like that I would would consider setting up a micro-hosting co-op and just delegate IIS management via the IIS 7 control panel. Or if anyone else was doing this, I want to contact them!
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    2. COIt costs more to run on Microsoft stack because of Microsoft licensing prices. But you could run ASP.NET sites on Linux + Mono.
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    3. CO@Jader: Yes, it generally costs more when there's a licensing fee involved. Btw, which hosting providers are offering ASP.NET on mono and are priced in the Dreamhost range?
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