hlecover
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| 12 Apr 2006 1:18 PM |
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I just want to say that I cannot say enough good things about
www.ihostasp.com. I am new to using DNN and not a programmer or
technically strong when it comes to installations and things like that,
and all I had to do with them is ask them to deploy a 4.0.2 blank site
and it was done in 10 minutes. I could then log on and create the
website as if I was working on it on my desktop, which I had been doing
for several weeks. For whatever reasons, I was having trouble with the
environment, and my desktop system would have errors, etc. For the
novice, having a site up on a server where you can add your modules,
skins, etc., was worth everything. Their basic plan is very affordable
and meets my needs. I couldn't be more pleased with the service. From
signup to deployment it was less than an hour.
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ekveeneman
Nuke Active Member
Posts:25
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| 24 Aug 2006 2:31 PM |
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| Are you still happy with iHostASP? Thanks. |
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clarityTeam
Nuke Newbie
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| 08 Jan 2007 8:40 PM |
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IHostAsp.net is fast
First of all these guys know how to host a DNN website so that it loads very quickly. I did some searching through the hosts listed in this forum, as well as through Google searches and came across www.IHostAsp.net. They have a test page that you can load to see what their load times are like: www.IHostDNN.net. When I loaded this page, I was happy with the speed (about 1-3 seconds load time first time, about 1 second load time after the site is cached). Also, their tech support team is great. They helped me setup a remote connection to my database so that I can make updated to my websites from a DNN instance running on my desktop. Also, using their system I was able to create muliptle websites, using subdomains, that pull from the same database but have different skins.
Finally, these guy's prices are extremely comeptitive with a site going for $8.95/mo to start up to a significantly discounted reseller program. If you haven't heard of reseller programs and you are interested in running more than 5 DNN websites, you should do a search on it. Or better yet, give the folks www.IHostASP.net a visit.
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clarityTeam
Nuke Newbie
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| 08 Jan 2007 8:44 PM |
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For clarification, the www.IHostASP.net reseller program brings hosting costs down to as low as $0.70/month per domain.
And updated should be updates.
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cd@viamedia.dk
DNN Creative Magazine Subscriber
Nuke Newbie
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| 03 Feb 2007 5:15 PM |
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I am very satiesfied with ihostasp.net, too. Very professional and helpful.
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Declic Video FX
Nuke Pro
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| 04 Feb 2007 4:13 AM |
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Posted By clarityTeam on 08 Jan 2007 8:44 PM For clarification, the www.IHostASP.net reseller program brings hosting costs down to as low as $0.70/month per domain. And updated should be updates. Chris
What do you have for 0.70$/month ???
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gregblack
Nuke Newbie
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| 22 Feb 2007 3:38 PM |
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To start with I was happy with ihostasp - cheap, quick installation of DNN etc.
But I have been a customer for less than 2 months and have had loss of service 3 times which is totally unacceptable, I wouldn't expect that in a year.
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Adle
Nuke Newbie
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| 19 Apr 2007 8:03 PM |
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Hi clarityTeam,
I am trying to setup my remote SQL 2005 Server connection but having difficulties with it.
I send tickects to ihostasp.net support team, but receive answer only next morning, which is not good if you claim they have good customer support.
Could you please provide detail info how to setup remote SQL 2005 connection to their SQL server?
Thank you,
Adle
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ihostasp
DNN Creative Magazine Subscriber
Nuke Newbie
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| 25 May 2007 1:04 PM |
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www.iHostASP.net
Here is an overview of our 3 main plans.
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- Dedicated application pool for each domain!
- Customer accessible database backups!
- Storage - 800MB
- Bandwidth - 10GB
- DNN Installations - 1
- Parent portals - 20
- Child portals - Unlimited
- MSSQL 2005- 1 x 250MB each
- MSSQL 2000 - 1 x 250MB each
- MySQL 4/5 - 3 x 250MB each
- Mail - Unlimited POP3/SMTP/IMAP/WEB MAIL Accounts. Spam & virus filtering included.
- FTP - Unlimited FTP accounts with ability to set user permissions.
- Sub domains - Create & manage your own 3rd level domains.
- Statistics - Detailed real-time statistics to track your visitors.
- ASP.NET 1.1/2.0, ASP 3.0, PHP5 supported
- Can run wide array of other ASP, PHP, .NET based web applications without any limits
This package is designed to accommodate one master portal/website and twenty child portals with the independent TLDs. |
Free Setup
Only $8.45/month
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- Dedicated application pool for each domain!
- Customer accessible database backups!
- Storage - 2400MB
- Bandwidth - 20GB
- DNN Installations - 3
- Parent portals - 60
- Child portals - Unlimited
- MSSQL 2005- 3 x 250MB each
- MSSQL 2000 - 3 x 250MB each
- MySQL 4/5 - 6 x 250MB each
- Mail - Unlimited POP3/SMTP/IMAP/WEB MAIL Accounts
- FTP - Unlimited FTP accounts with ability to set user permissions.
- Sub domains - Create & manage your own 3rd level domains.
- Statistics - Detailed real-time statistics to track your visitors.
- ASP.NET 1.1/2.0, ASP 3.0, PHP5 supported
- Can run wide array of other ASP, PHP, .NET based web applications without any limits
This package is designed to accommodate three independent master portals/websites and over 60 child portals. |
Free Setup
Only! $16.45/month
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- Dedicated application pool for each domain!
- Customer accessible database backups!
- Storage - 4800MB
- Bandwidth - 30GB
- DNN Installations - 6
- Parent portals - 120
- Child portals - Unlimited
- MSSQL 2005- 6 x 250MB each
- MSSQL 2000 - 6 x 250MB each
- MySQL 4/5 - 12 x 250MB each
- Mail - Unlimited POP3/SMTP/IMAP/WEB MAIL Accounts
- FTP - Unlimited FTP accounts with ability to set user permissions.
- Sub domains - Create & manage your own 3rd level domains.
- Statistics - Detailed real-time statistics to track your visitors.
- ASP.NET 1.1/2.0, ASP 3.0, PHP5 supported
- Can run wide array of other ASP, PHP, .NET based web applications without any limits
With this package you can host six independent master portals/websites and over 120 child portals. It is equivalent to six standard DNN packages. |
Free Setup
Only $26.45/month
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This plan provides plenty of storage, bandwidth, and features for one master portal and twenty additional virtual portals. It includes one 250MB Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 database. This is a perfect plan for hosting a single master DNN portal. |
The Developer plan provides a much larger disk and bandwidth quota intended to host three DNN master portals. Combined with three MSSQL databases this plan offers plenty of headroom for developers that need to maintain separate DNN code bases. |
The Professional plan is ideal for web developers and DNN enthusiasts that need to setup multiple DNN master portals. This plan can host six master portals and up to a hundred and twenty virtual portals. We provide six Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 databases with 48000MB of disk space and 30GB of bandwidth per month. This plan is the best offer you can find.
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Hosting Support Specialist
IHOST, LLC
www.ihostasp.net
Local/International: 1.440.377.9913
Toll-free: 1.800.593.0238
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Terp
Nuker
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| 03 Jun 2007 11:43 AM |
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Lee,
If my memory serves me, you are hosting DNNCreative on ihost servers, no? Are you equally happy with their service and site performance?
Perhaps that would make a good module for a rookie like myself: How to Host a DNN Portal Built Locally...how to link up the SQL DB on the host server, remap the images/pics, etc that are mapped to local locations, etc.
I have been shopping for hosting, given that I can't get my site installed on GB, and ihostasp looks like the front runner thus far, so welcome your comments. |
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cd@viamedia.dk
DNN Creative Magazine Subscriber
Nuke Newbie
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| 03 Jun 2007 11:29 PM |
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I am still very satiesfied with Ihostasp.net. I have got more than good service. I've also got some good development and technical advice for free. You can get Dotnetnuke up and running in a few minutes time. We have experienced som network maintenance, but always got information about it beforehand.
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leesykes
DNN Creative Staff
Nuke Master III
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premier2
Nuke Newbie
Posts:7
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| 09 Jul 2007 11:01 AM |
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My company signed up under a reseller plan and so far we've had mixed results. The setup and performance of the site is good. The control panel (Helm) is easy to use. We were really excited about this hosting provider until we got into maintaining our databases or even getting support.
The web based MS SQL server tool they have is abysmal. The only thing you can do from it is run SQL. We've not been able to connect remotely to our databases, nor is there any information available on how to. We've openned up numerous support tickets and so far (3 days later) we have had no responses whatsoever.
Another issue we're having is how to transfer an existing site to their server. We'd like to be able to restore a backup copy of our database to their server, but apparently this is not allowed. From seaching their forums, it appears that they won't do it for you either. (see: http://support.ihostasp.net/Customer/KBArticle.aspx?articleid=22) We've tried to contact them about this, but they won't respond to this one either.
In short, the biggest problem we have with this provider is lack of support. If we can't get this resolved, then we'll take our business elsewhere and we'll just have to eat the one month's fee. No way we're putting our client sites here if this is going to be the norm. |
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premier2
Nuke Newbie
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| 09 Jul 2007 2:39 PM |
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OK, addendum to the above rant. iHostASP has responded this afternoon (Monday) to my Friday request. Apparently, my request was entered as a non-emergency and therefore not dealt with outside of their normal office hours (Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm EST). They did in fact restore my database as requested, contrary to what was posted in their KBArticle so I’m still a little unclear as to what their policy is, but happy that they did restore it. I’ll see if I can get some further clarification on database restores.
I’m not sure how fast “normal” support is during office hours or how quickly they’ll turn around “emergency” request, but I’ll keep you posted. Support is looking a little better now.
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jcosta
Nuke Newbie
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| 22 Oct 2007 4:36 PM |
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premier2, it has been a few months since your above post. I was thinking about getting a resellers plan on ihostasp but wanted to get some more feedback from you before I start to move all my sites over to them. Have you been happy so far? I have a customer that just switched to them and they helped me restore a db from my old server and let me connect using enterprise manager. They have responded really quick to all my requests. I am very happy up to this point but wanted to get some feed back on site up time over a long peroid of time.
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datamark
DNN Creative Magazine Subscriber
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| 16 May 2008 9:46 AM |
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Don't Do It. I just wrote a long dissertation of all my troubles with them and just now deleted it. You don't want to hear that. What you should hear is that I had big enough troubles to close the account and had more serious problems with the billing department after that. I'll also complain that their techs are slow to respond over a weekend or no response over a weekend. Hey. The Internet does not go home on the weekend and neither do my customers.
On the contrary, I have good things to say about 3Essentials.com. They are setting the standard in my book. |
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mortymoose
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| 29 May 2008 9:05 AM |
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I am trying hard to find good input on DNN hosting. It seems like a lot of good things about hosting providers from people who only have a few posts. It makes me wonder if people from those hosting providers are creating accounts just to brag about their service.
I am curious about 3Essentials now. I have seen great reviews, but also seen some reviews stating they are a scam.
What do you guys think. Sounds like datamark likes them. Do you still like them a couple weeks later?
Also what do those who are still on iHostASP think. How is there service/performance at the moment?
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CornerPixel
www.cornerpixel.net |
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jcosta
Nuke Newbie
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| 29 May 2008 9:19 AM |
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Morty,
When I posted that question I was unsure with who to go with. I have been hosting my own servers for 5 years so I know the difficulties of hosting sites.
I tried 3Essentials and IHost. Ihost had a rough patch for 3 days in the last 6 months but other than that I have been SOOOO impressed with them. Thier control panel is much easier to work than 3Essentials. This customer support on non urgent issues is about a day. If I send a request to get a database restore it happens in under 6 hours on the weekday. If I send one on Saturday they have a Sunday support unit that will have it restored Sunday evening.
When I move a site they go as far to edit your web.config file for you and setup the username and pass for the database. They go the extra mile.
To launch a new dnn site they have an auto installer for any version of DNN. You click on three buttons and it is installed.
I can't say enough good things about them!!
I even had a client that was trying to get two different sites moved over after trying a few different DNN hosting companies and he was blown away by the service I could offer after moving him to ihost.
Go with them. It is month to month and I am sure you will be happy for the price.
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mortymoose
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| 29 May 2008 9:52 AM |
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Thanks jcosta.
I think I may go with iHostASP. They seem to have good prices. I appreciate your advice. I do like the fact that iHostASP is DNN specific. That really helps.
I have my own website hosted at my house on a virtual server (windows server 2003) and I love the ability to manage everything, but the bandwidth woudn't handle more sites and it wouldn't be anything I would want my customers to rely on. It is nice for testing things.
One last question. How does iHostASP do with Database management? Will I be able to do simple things like db backups, and restores?
Thanks again jcosta, I really appreciate the advice.
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CornerPixel
www.cornerpixel.net |
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jcosta
Nuke Newbie
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| 29 May 2008 9:56 AM |
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Morty,
They backup your database nightly to the db folder of your domain. So you have nightly .rar files that contain the SQL 2005 .bak files.
You can also hit the database using SQL Express Manager using the correct port.
If you need a restore just send them the .bak file and ask them to restore it through thier support portal and they will take care of it.
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datamark
DNN Creative Magazine Subscriber
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| 29 May 2008 1:20 PM |
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| MortyMoose, delay time on a ticket was important to me. The quality of the responses I get on a ticket are important. Waiting a more than a day for responses that are half effort is not acceptable when there are good people waiting on me to fix their broken site. It is hard enough to get things accomplished through only email - and then if it takes them over a day to respond, it takes wayyyyy too long to get things straightened out. After I experienced some of that iwth my new iHost account, I did some more Googling on that name and found a number of forum postings that said the tech support was slow and some said they thought there was no one answering emails on the weekend sometimes. Keep in mind that you CANNOT talk to a billing person on the phone. They will not allow it. When they have your money and they have taken 3 months and lots of emails and still not given it back and will not let you talk to the billing department to straighten it out. It gets frustrating! Certainly enough to give a bad recommendation. Since I switched to 3Essentials, they have answered my support tickets between 1 and two hours. My first round of questions were each answered, with detail, in less than 20 minutes each. My overnight and weekend tickets are also handled timely and professionally. And my customers and I have enjoyed fast websites - much faster than my last host. I have worked with 6 or 7 hosts over the years. I'm not new to the whole website thing. I need service and I was not happy with iHost during the short time I was there. If you decide to go with iHost, please tell us your experience after a couple weeks or so. I hope for their sake that they get a better rating with you. |
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mortymoose
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| 30 May 2008 10:00 AM |
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Thanks for your reply Jcosta.
You said you tried 3Essentials. Other than a harder control panel, what was your view on them?
Thanks.
I started a thread on 3Essentials, but it hasn't gotten any replies.
I know I seem like I am asking a lot of questions, but I want my customers to be happy and successful, and hosting is a big deal.
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CornerPixel
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jcosta
Nuke Newbie
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| 30 May 2008 10:18 AM |
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I had a lot of issues setting up one site with 3Essentials. They didn't have the permissions set correctly for a DNN site so I had to run through several screens and reset permissions a bunch of times to get my DNN Site to work. Once I did it ran smooth and fast but the control panel which was a plesk panel was a nightmare to use compared to helms.
I am also bias because I used helm on my servers so I was already familiar with it but I still think it is a much easier to use interface. It also has a full billing system and allows you to accept credit card payments from your customers if you have a credit card processor like I do with Autorize.net. I am not sure if the Plesk panel lets you do all that. I do know that Plesk is a single machine controller. That means your email, SQL and site are all on the same computer. Helm controls multiple servers which means the SQL server is separate from the email and web server. To me that is a big advantage.
I host just revamped their support system. You use to send an email but now you have to go through their web interface. I think it helped them reduce a lot of spam which seemed to help them speed up response times. If you put in an URGENT request in because a site is down they respond in under an hour. If you put in a normal non urgent request they seem to respond within a day.
I signed up for both 3Essentials and Ihost at the same time. Used them both for about 2 months with 3 different sites and ended up going with IHost. All my customers have been happy. The start up time for a few of the DNN 4+ sites have been the only complaint and I just installed keep alives on those and haven't had any other issues with customer complaints.
IHost does have actual people that answer the phone. Just go to their site and click on contact us and they have a billing and support number. I have called them a few times and people do answer during business hours. They also just opened a second location in a different data center.
Get a monthly account with both and make up your mind for yourself. Let me know who you chose.
Later!
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zackace
Nuke Newbie
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| 10 Jun 2008 2:41 PM |
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| I tried Ihotasp and wasnt impressed by the response times. I have since moved to Server Intellect, 5 months no complaints so far. |
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Alavri
DNN Creative Magazine Subscriber
Nuke Newbie
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| 03 Aug 2008 5:34 AM |
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I am currently hosting some of my sites on iHost, and am moving more over. So far I am very impressed, especially for the price. It is hard to find a re-seller account that offers as much as they do in that price range. I am not reselling specifically, I offer hosting to my clients (I own a web design company). iHost try to sell themselves as by developers for developers, and from this statement I assume that they expect a level of knowledge from their clients. For me they have responded to my questions in good time and offer a solid product. I know what I am doing and I want control of my accounts. Their Helm system offers just that. Their web pages load quickly, and their uptime is solid.
For DNN and asp.NET hosting I haven't found a better value, especially if you have more that 5 domains. I would recommend iHost to any seasoned experienced web designer. For a someone who newer (especially DNN) or needs to have a lot/quick support they might not be your best option. If you have been doing this for a while and want a good solid host, I would recommend them.
Please feel free to ask me any specific questions on their hosting if you are considering them, I'd be happy to respond.
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schaeftex
Nuke Newbie
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| 01 Oct 2008 11:21 PM |
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First of all, thanks to all of you for all the good info in this thread and others. I've historically tried webhost4life (several years ago) and found it painfully slow (DNN 2, so I forgive them). Recently I tried again with Easycgi and it was miserable waste of my time. The automated DNN configuration didn't work and took about 5 support tickets to finally get it working. Only to find out that root DNN was not supported! So, I tried to move it myself and it did not work...I suspect it was permissions but they were of no help. This went on for nearly two months (off and on, I have a day job).
Finally tonight I read this thread and had narrowed my list to PowerDNN or iHostASP. Simply based on price I chose the latter. Well within an hour I have my main portal (running on the root) and another parent portal working perfectly and seems to have very quick response (for a single page).
Now, the only reason it took an hour is because I didn't watch the DNN tutorial on their site. I had already set us a MS SQL database and I think the Application Deployment tool would have preferred to do that. I quickly changed the web.config settings to the DB I had created and, viola, worked great.
The only other reason it took me an hour was because of my 2nd portal. That too would have went faster if I understood domain aliasing. I've been a spoiled user of DNN at my day job since DNN 1.x and have had direct access to IIS so I've never ventured into aliasing. Again, if you follow the domain aliasing tutorial and add the portal to DNN it works great.
So now I've saved anyone thinking about iHostASP about 45 minutes. You'll be up in 15 minutes!
Paul
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