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- animatedgif0
Get a better developer maybe?
asp.net is a bit of a red flag unless you're building "enterprise" bullcrap
- vaxorcist0
ideology aside, I've heard these guys are good:
http://www.m6.net/prices.aspx
http://www.midphase.com/website-…That said, many of us (including me) have had consecutive all-nighters due to windows hosting in the past. In my case, it was when a developer updated something that required us to suddenly pay MS a shit ton of money to updgrade MS SQL in a rather uncool budget suprise..... and also a case where some DNS got re-routed and we were down for 24 hours due to an insanely minor thing that got propegated all through the internet due to some oddities, so it's not so much the buggy stuff as it is sometimes the minefield of random quirks you have to suddenly know about.... this is what keeps all those DILBERT-LIKE IT DUDES from getting fired, they know this random shit....
- ETM0
^
The only few times I have had to be on the Win/IIS side of things were all nighter BS sessions. I had one of the parties contact me a couple weeks ago about taking on another one, I literally laughed, said 'never again' and hung up.The other side is it's so much harder to find good people when someone drops out. The good ones are always tied up in long running corporate projects, and the ones you can get in a reasonable time frame, are almost all incompetent.
- ETM0
I know it's not much help, but the few times I've been involved on that side of things we always used corporate servers, or purchased a server, set it up and sent to a co-lo. From what I understand is pretty common in general for MS side of things. Justifying .NET usually means tying into other MS services and that is always for larger corporate projects.
What scale of hosting do you need? Basic shared, dedicated virtual etc.? Is this a large project?
- It is basic shared for the beginning but if everything goes well we might need higher end solutionsBeeswax
- evilpeacock0
Supposedly http://www.1and1.com/ is good, but I've never used them personally.
In my years of experience I've always preferred Apache on Linux/UNIX hosting over Windows largely because it's often cheaper but also because it's generally more secure.
Can't live without .htaccess files.