Windows Hosting With Isapi
Sep 19, 2007relatively typical windows shared hosting plan that has the isapi rewrite installed.
Is godaddy's windows hosting any good?
relatively typical windows shared hosting plan that has the isapi rewrite installed.
Is godaddy's windows hosting any good?
Since about 2002 I have constantly had my own co-located and then dedicated box. Before that, the only paid host I ever used was verio.net. Now that I sold off most of my sites, it is time to move to a smaller, shared hosting plan.
My question is can anyone suggest a good hosting plan? I do not need a lot of space or bandwidth, but I do require a few things:
- ASP.net 3.5 is a huge plus, but 2.0 is do-able
- At least one msSQL database
- Daily backups is also a huge plus. I don't need this second, but eventually I will want it.
- Good technical support is a must. I have dealt with to many companies even with my dedicated hosting that offered horrible tech support. A three day wait on a question is not acceptable. Phone support is a plus, but a 24 hour reply on an email is enough.
- ISAPI-Rewrite, or an equivalent is a must. I rewrite my URL's for SE rankings, as I believe everyone should, so the ability to host a rewrite script is a must. Though I use ISAPI-Rewrite, if their is an equivalent that is do-able.
- Need to be able to run at least (2) domains. My main company domain and then a second domain which is basically a landing page. In future I need a 3rd domain added, so ability to upgrade or add on a domain cheaply is a must too.
If you own a hosting company that matches this, or can suggest any please do so. If you suggest and they offer a referral program feel free to let me know your referral code as you obviously deserve the credit for suggesting the company.
I update the corporate website for my company. Our server is IIS and when I need a 301, I have to send a request to IT to do it, as our pages are static .html and .shtml (SSI) and using javascript redirects is not ideal for SEO.
A redesign we're going to be deploying, will include the shuffling of several pages/directories and redirecting of quite a few URL's. This fact alone seems to provide a good argument convincing IT that this is a good idea. From what I've read here and elsewhere, heliontech's solution seems to be the way to go.
Since this is 3rd party, I'm looking to have further leverage to explain my case on behalf of using this. Are there benchmarks and data that support the reliability of this method versus the straight MS stuff?
Also, I'm not real tech savvy on the server end, but I was told that our corporate site and application sites may reside on the same box and that applying the ISAPI rewrite would affect those as well. This would obviously make it a "no sell" with my IT colleagues.
Would sites residing on the same server be globally affected by the ISAPI? If so, is there a way to circumvent this and just set the ISAPI for the one site?
So I have been reduced, I am a firm *nix Apache user, to using IIS along with ISAPI for redirection at work. Now I can setup the redirection(s) just fine using the GUI, but I am a *nix man and doing this through the GUI is SLOW! That is when it has to be done on 3 servers at a time plus I can only access those servers through a Citrix environment.
And I need to be adding redirects many times a week. Is there any way to setup ISAPI redirects from a command line? Google has offered me nothing.
i have custom dll built with Delphi that used to work on IIS 5/6/7. After i migrated to apache, DLL started to crash after an hour or two and i have to restart the server. The error was something about bad header. Since the developer says DLL is handling reponses OK and i can't get anything with debug logging on apache side can i run DLL as CFG/FastCGI (not that versed with apache so maybe this question does not make sense)?
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I'm trying to rid my Expression Engine site of the index.php? part in my URLs using ISAPI REWRITE on IIS.
I've got [ISAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteRule (/(?:site|member|search|Pd{1,8}).*) /index.php?$1 [I,L]
which removes the index.php but not the? part.
we're using IIS 5.0 which doesn't have any flexible support for rewriting URLs which include parameters (AFAIK, anyway). We're currently testing an ISAPI Rewrite Plugin, which emulates the syntax and behaviour of mod_rewrite, which is why I felt this forum category to be the most appropriate for this post.
Our URLs at the moment look like:-
[url]where 'hg' is an instance of a key. In this particular example, we wish to rewrite our URL to read [url]homegarden' where 'homegarden' is a value of that respective key.
Since the value 'homegarden' isn't present in our current URL, we need some way to associate this value with it's relevant key, by mapping one to another. The ideal solution in this case would be to use RewriteMap, however the ISAPI plugin doesn't support this directive.
One other solution, that I've seen here is to use the 'homegarden' value as the key instead. However, due to the lack of flexibility of our system, this isn't possible.
Another method of achieving this is to hard-code a RewriteRule for every instance of a key, but this solution has obvious performance drawbacks (we have around 400 categories)
So, at the moment I'm out of ideas, which is why I thought I'd try and rack your brains for suggestions. An ideal scenario would be to use something like RewriteCond (which is supported by the plugin) to attach a file which would contain the key/value map.
The current supported directives are :-
RewriteRule
RedirectRule
RewriteHeader
RewriteCond
RewriteLog
RewriteLogLevel
RewriteFilterPriority
IterationLimit
MaxMatchCount
StrictParsing
Even if it's not possible using one of the above, maybe someone can point me to solution involving a method other than using this particular plugin?
I'm using IIS 6.0 and an isapi dll created in Delphi, and I'm getting an error which I cannot understand.
At some point when I make a request for this file I get an error in Firefox ("The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading"). At the same time http error log is full of "Connection_Abandoned_By_AppPool" messages. After this happens, there is almost nothing I can do - I tried recycling the application pool, then I tried restarting the IIS server, and finally I reset the computer - NONE of this helped.
The only thing that resolves the issue is to recompile the dll and replace it (the source is absolutely the same). After that everything works fine.
I have a separate App pool for this dll (not executing in DefaultAppPool). At first, I thought that the problem lies in "Rapid fail protection" so I have disabled it, but the problem hapenned again.
The biggest issue is that this problem hapenned exactly 4 times in two months. It's very rare, and very hard to debug.
Finally, I have discovered on thing that could lead to the solution (with somebody's help :-)). I have enabled recycling for this pool every 2 hours. Looking at the event log in windows, I have found out that the problem always occured after the pool was recycled. So, each time this problem hapenned I have this logged in Event log as an information message:
"A worker process with process id of '2312' serving application pool 'PromjenePool' has requested a recycle because the worker process reached its allowed processing time limit. ".
After that, in my log there is a series (hundreds, thousands) of error messages, two or three in a second, first of them coming just a few seconds after information about recycling. The warning messages are like this:
"A process serving application pool 'PromjenePool' terminated unexpectedly. The process id was '2604'. The process exit code was '0x1'. "
The first thing that my dll does is that it logs that it has been initalized to a log file. After this happens, there is no trace of initialization in my log file. So, probably dll is never loaded, or it crashes when it tries to open the file.
So, to resume, I have recycle periods of 120 mins, and about 300-400 recycles happen without any problem. After one recycle, I just keep getting error "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading", httperr log contains loads of ""Connection_Abandoned_By_AppPool" messages, and event log is logging that process serving my pool is terminating unexpectedly. The most bizzare thing is that recycling the dll, restarting iis or computer won't help, the only thing that surely helps is to recompile the dll (same source).
Just to add - if it can help - all dll is basically doing is connecting via TCP sockets to a data feed, constantly reads data and publishes it through dll. There is no connection to database, just sockets and appending messages to local file.
I am talking like a few thousand sites per server (actually a pair that act as a unified server, routing for load balancing). In a muli-thousand site IIS server, will having ISAPI Rewrites enables for ALL of the IIS virtual sites cause performance to degrade?
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and which hosting is the best? either windows or linux?
and what are the dis advantages between them?
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Im sure I will get my account back, dealing with overseas support staff is a ***** tho
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I don't want a VPS as I have tried them in the past and it is too much effort to set them up although I will use one in the future when I have the time to set one up properly. ALso with the ones I tried the memory couldn't cope and if I needed to get reasonable performance I would have had to pay a lot of $$$
My requirements are (all to be included in monthly price):
# must be unlimited or at least 50 domains can be hosted
# Offer Helm
# 50 gigs Bandwidth or more
# Clean host (no SEO banning or problems)
# Hosting Company Must not be a reseller - I want the real deal, proven & experienced host that has been around for at least 2 years. I will be doing a lot of research so please don't bother plugging your reseller business.
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I am providing linux hosting for a while now, but want to expand my services to windows hosting as well.
I am looking to get a dedicated server, but could use some help in deciding what to chose.
What would be better for windows 2003 hosting? It would normally be used for asp.net pages, and people can use ms sql (but the free msde edition). There will also be mysql on the server.
What would be better, more ram or more cpu?
config 1: less cpu, more ram
Xeon QUAD-CORE Clovertown E5130 (4 times 1,6 Ghz)
8 GB ECC DDR2 ram
config 2: more cpu, less ram
Dual QuadCore 5310 8 times 1.6GHz Cores
4GB ECC DDR2 Ram
Also, I am looking at offering ajax for asp.net. Does this take a lot of resources on the server?
And what about running apps in isolated application pools for every user. Does this take a lot of server resources?
some reliable hosts at nominal rates? I'm looking for maximum uptime and web space for my ecommerce based websites.
Requirements are:
At least 2 GB web space
There are 5 domains to be hosted on one server (there will be more in future)
Websites are developed in ASP
MS Access databases (separate db for each website)
Domain Alias
I am planning to move my hosting from SHARED to either VPS / Dedicated / Cloud Hosting(MOSSO) .
I am quite confused because:
1. I tried lunarpages VPS, they dont offer multiple MSSQL DB. THey offer only 1 and LIMITED to 1 GB.
2. Dedicated from lunarpages also has some limitations.
3. I heard something called as "cloud hosting" from mosso - Cloud sites, Cloud Files, Cloud servers.. I really dont understand what it means..
Can you please help?
I NEED:
1. Windows hosting - ASP, unlimited MSSQL DB and atleast 10GB space. The site will have atleast 100K visitors / month.
I am planning to place an order with hostnexus for a windows hosting. I saw them first on whreviews and got impressed by their professional site and quick response to my queries via email.
But can any existing or past customers share their opinions about their uptime, suppor or any other issues? Is it comparable to hostgator for linux?
Need the following specs from an established Managed Windows VPS provider with Ticket and Phone Support.
Server 2003
Helm 4
30-50GB Disk
1TB+ Bandwidth
1024 Memory
MySQL or WinSQL
2+ IP's
Has anyone tried one of Dotster's Windows plans as I can't find any reviews using the search? Their plans seems to offer a lot for a low price.
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If you could refer me to some decent hosts, that would be great (and I hate oversellers)
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