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Looking for recommendations for hosting ASP.NET web apps
I've been with an ASP.NET web hosting service for several years. However, the service provided has declined in the last couple of years. So, I started looking for a new, inexpensive, web hosting service. This is for my side business, which doesn't attract that much traffic. Yes, I'm sure that Azure would do, but like I said I'm trying to keep costs down.
Naturally, I started searching. I've come across a couple of "Top 10 hosting services for 2023". I've spent about three weeks looking at different ones. I want to publish my ASP.NET Core both from Visual Studio and Azure DevOps Services, using the Azure DevOps FTP task if necessary. My website is currently written in .NET 6. This search experience has not been a pleasant experience. Some services I've spoken to said that because I am working with ASP.NET, then it can only run on Windows, and therefore I couldn't use their service, since they are a Linux only provider (mostly WordPress). I have told two of these web hosting services that ASP.NET Core can run on Linux. I even shared links from Microsoft that ASP.NET Core can run on Linux, Mac, and Windows. In both cases their response was disbelief and a refusal to discuss the topic further with me.
Since it seems that many web hosting services have a mindset that refuse to accept the idea that anything from Microsoft can run on Linux, I decided to go back to researching web hosting companies that offer ASP.NET on Windows (both traditional .NET Framework varieties as well as .NET Core with .NET 5, 6, and 7). I settled on one, but they insist that I must allow them to re-register the domain I've owned for 10+ years. They will not allow me to upload my website to them until I've unlocked my website from the domain registrar I use. I've told them, at least three times, that I am satisfied with the domain registrar I have and only need a web hosting provider. They won't hear of it and refuse to go any further with me.
So, once again I'm back to searching for a web hosting company for small businesses, that is inexpensive (OK, cheap), that I might be able to have multiple domains on. Therefore, I'd appreciate recommendations from this community, please.
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- Hi Rod,
I'm using Asphostportal and I can recommend them. For small medium site, I believe that you can go with this option, they are cost effective, support is also good. - you can check out fresh roasted hosting.
They support all the versions of .net and asp.net core hosting on both windows and linux. - I am in the same boat, I have not been able to find any offerings that are reasonably cheap and low maintenance (meaning, no virtual machines). I've also explored the idea of using Docker images. There are several offerings there, which allow you to host docker images without needing to spin up a full virtual machine. But I found them all to be either lacking (no persistent storage / database for example) or too expensive.
I've resorted to using a virtual machine now, which allows me to host more than one ASP.NET Core application. It sucks that I have to maintain the VMs as well, but at least it is cheap.
Did you find anything since you created the post?- Hello Thomas Glaser, I am so sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you.
Yes, I've moved my website to InterServer. They're OK, but I must admit they're not as much as I had hoped they would be. For now, they'll do. I've got other balls in the air at this time, so looking for something else isn't going to happen. At least not for a few months.Rod-F thanks for the reply. I haven't really found anything that suites my needs yet either, so I'm still using VServers, which is fine from a cost perspective
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