DiscountASP Vs. CrystalTech
Sep 5, 2007
I have been doing my homework on windows ASP.NET shared hosting providers and have narrowed down my choice to discountASP & CrystalTech. I am now struggling with making the final decision and would appreciate any thoughts/input/comments/experience that you might have.
My requirements are:
- ASP.NET 2.0
- SQL Server 2005
- SSL Certificate
- Daily backups
- Ability to backup SQL database in real-time
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Specific items of note:
- discountASP runs apps in isolated application pool, CrystalTech does not
- CrystalTech has phone support, discountASP does not
- CrystalTech is $16.95/month, discountASP is $30/month
- neither provide guaranteed uptime (compared to aspwebhosting.com which does for example - any others that guarantee uptime?)
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Sep 10, 2008
Has somebody used dedicated servers from Crystaltech?
I used them before for a windows hosting account.
It was several years ago, and it was good, so I was thinking about giving them a chance for a Linux dedicated.
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Jul 16, 2009
I have an ASP.Net + SQL Server 2008 Express website I was hosting with DiscountASP.net. Their service seems pretty solid, and I didn't have any issues hosting with them. Customer support was quick and knowledgeable.
However, I had noticed for quite some time that the website seemed pretty slow. Please note that the website isn't live yet, so it was only me and a colleague who were accessing it. I was accessing the website from Dubai, UAE and he from Doha, Qatar. Therefore traffic/load definitely wasn't the problem.
We tried an instance of the website on a VPS (the DB was still running on DASP), and it was blazing fast! The difference in speed was quite significant and sustained. What could the reason for this be? Is it because we can't expect good speeds from shared hosting? Or should I report this issue to DASP?
I would be paying around 5x of what I'm paying right now ($100 instead of $20) if I switched to a VPS, but if there are definite advantages, I would be willing to do so. I don't expect large volumes of traffic on the website for quite a while.
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Jan 29, 2008
I have been doing some research to try and figure out the best host for my ASP.Net website. DiscountASP.Net seems like a very good option. However, I have read about some serious downtime they had due to two DDOS attacks they had. Apparently this brought down all hosted sites for days.
Other than this, DA.Net seems quite reliable. My questions are:
1. Are the DDOS attacks on DA.Net something I should be worried about? They claim to have improved their security, but I wonder why they were brought to their knees twice?
2. How come only DA.Net was attacked on such a large scale twice? Is it a sign that hackers are targeting it?
3. How good is the infrastructure that DA.Net has?
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Jun 1, 2008
How do I redirect to subdomains with discountasp hosting?
They give an example in their knowledge base (won't let me link it), example, they are assuming you're a programmer.
Is there any code that works that I can just paste into a Visual Studio 2008 web app project and upload that to my site? Or is it more complicated than that?
Customer service was no help at all.
Am I expected to be an experienced ASP.NET programmer in order to use discountasp as my hosting? I am learning asp.net and c# and I got discountasp because they seemed to have all the cutting edge Microsoft technologies.
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