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# GoDaddy Denies My Using ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions

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Please look at http://discountasp.net

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GoDaddy's hosting is cheap, but it comes at a different cost, flexibility. I highly recommend you try out discountasp.net they always have the latest MS beta stuff available and setup took less than 30 minutes.

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I know discountasp.net is good but if you need more than just a single site hosted I would certainly recommend: appliedi.net - I've been using them for over a year now and never had a problem + support is fast if not instant :)

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I don't know about you, but go to : www.appliedi.net/.../checkoutai.aspx select the second radio button , put some text ... and YSOD ( yellow screen of death ) :D ... so they don't inspire much confidence.

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Surely you can't expect shared hosting companies to have deployed a less than 1 month old technology at this point?  VS 2008 has not even officially been released yet.  Most of these types of companies won't upgrade until a new version of their control panel ships with included support.  That is how they keep it so cheap - one size fits all.

You want to customize it, get a VPS server somewhere and you can put whatever you want on it.

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CrystalTech is offering ASP.NET 3.5. They have a very reasonable Value offering you could test with and upgrade to a higher level at anytime.

No one is perfect but if I ever encounter a problem or have a question they are always prompt. Every time I call they answer the phone and get it resolved in a few minutes.

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I second CrystalTech. I've hosted a few sites with them for a number of years and the service has been great !

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We will in fact be supporting ASP.NET 3.5 on our shared hosting accounts in the near future. When we make this technology available we will post it on our blog, http://blog.godaddyhosting.com.

Thank you for your patience and we hope that you will consider staying with us.

Alicia R.

Go Daddy Hosting

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I provide the exact same services at competative rates as well.  I agree with Jason Short however.  Being so new, hosting companies without the ASP speciality will adopt it much slower.

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I'm not sure about trust in hosted environment, but I think you can compile your code down to 2.0. We have some old Win 2000 servers that cann't run .NET 3.0 let alone 3.5, but we compile it down to 2.0 and it works fine. Make a WebApplication, copy locally all of the 3.5 dlls (System.Core, System.linq...), then precompile the site using aspnet_compiler and copy the files up and it should work.

I've not tried this with the ASP.NET 3.5 Extension stuff specifically, but the ASP.NET 3.5 LINQ works on 2.0.

Good luck

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Jason Short is right: it's not realistic to expect them to have it deployed already.  It's too new.  Some companies that are small, or that focus specifially on having the latest MSFT technology, will have it.  But a company with as much surface area as GoDaddy will wait until they can offer it *and support it* correctly, which includes upgrading their control panel to support it as well in addition to actually installing it on the servers.

As Jason said, "That is how they keep it so cheap - one size fits all."

They'll offer soon, I'm sure, but it's not as simple as installing it on a server.

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Hey, you've got to give GoDaddy credit.  Alicia R. posted a very polite response reasonably quick.  I love to see that kind of responsiveness in a company.

Makes me glad I have my blog hosted through them.  :)

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I would recommend <a href="http://aspnix.com">http://aspnix.com</a>. They let me run ASP.NET 3.5 extensions w/o any problems. They even elevated my account from partial to full trust. Prices are very reasonable.

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I've had pretty bad experience with Godaddy too. I created a website that had a spider to collect data from some other sites. It used to store all exceptions/errors in a txt report file.

They disabled the write permission on my web space and didn't enable it back in spite of many reminders.

My website also seemed to get slower with each passing day.

Finally I gave up on Godaddy and moved to a better host.

If you're looking for cheap server deals, I've had a very good experience with server4you.com

You Don't GoDaddy

Cheers!

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My blog (http://pietschsoft.com) has been hosted with DiscountASP.NET for about 4 years. I've been very happy with them. I've also had experience with GoDaddy's hosting and I've been very happy with it. The only draw backs with GoDaddy are: 1) No remote access to your SQL database with Sql Management Studio, 2)Supports SQL 2000, not 2005, and 3) they don't support .NET 3.0 & 3.5 yet.

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I actually emailed GoDaddy myself, and this is the response I received:

We do not support .NET 3.0 or 3.5 libraries on our shared hosting accounts. This is because .NET 3.0 and 3.5 requires a Full Trust environment, while we support Medium Trust on our shared servers per Microsoft's recommendation.

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you just have to get your own dedicated box, at godady it is like $150 month and 1and1 like $180 month or at least a VPS where you have control to install what you need.  I have so many environments running from .net, python (django), dnn,community server, red5, php (wordpress, django), ms sql , mysql, postgresql etc.  It would be impossible using hosting. Trust me it is a worthwhile investment.

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First of all, thanks for your comment Cam Soper. We're glad your blog is hosted with us too! :)

I also wanted to mention a few things in response to some comments.

-Cyril, sorry about the issue the with write access. You and others might want to check out the nice new permissions management features for Windows and Linux accounts in the file manager, located under 'Content' in the Hosting Control Center. This feature is now much easier to use and control. You can find out more about this feature on our blog, http://blog.godaddyhosting.com.

-We do indeed support SQL 2005.

-.NET 3.5 doesn't actually require full trust and the release of 3.5 is near.

Hope this helps and best of luck to everyone!

Alicia R.

Go Daddy Hosting

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Alicia,

It's great that GoDaddy will have 3.5 support soon - but how soon is soon? Can you give us a worst case scenario - 1 month? 2 months?

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See the URL

help.godaddy.com/.../687...

Looks like they got up instructions! I wish I knew if/when it was being enabled because the otion doesn't yet appear to exist in my account manager.

Godaddy is being a tease!

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It doesn't show up in your account manager because the online help says that IIS7 and 3.5 is only available for "new hosting accounts", so the rest of us are screwed. Sounds like just another way for godaddy to mess with its customers. They will learn when people start jumping ship and heading to other web hosts because of the apparent lack of concern for an existing customer base.

# GoDaddy continues to make things difficult for moving to ASP.Net 3.5

GoDaddy continues to make things difficult for moving to ASP.Net 3.5

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It is very unfortunate that godaddy won't provide asp.net 3.5 for my shared account with them. I received the same "permissions" email from godaddy, so I think Alicia may be referring to non-shared accounts in terms of future 3.5 availability.

I would recommend CrystalTech over "Discount" asp.net...The secound you add SQL Server, you're already paying $20+. I haven't worked with Discount asp.net, so the only disadvantage I can comment on is price, when comparing to CrystalTech's plans.

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I wanted to follow up with more information on our ASP offerings. We recently began offering the ASP.NET 3.5 framework. For more information you can check out the following articles. <a href="blog.godaddyhosting.com/.../asp-net-35-on-iis6.aspx">ASP .NET 3.5 on IIS6</a> and <a href="blog.godaddyhosting.com/.../iis7.aspx">IIS7 Has Arrived</a>

Alicia R.

Go Daddy Hosting

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GoDaddy still does not fully support .NET 3.5.  I have been trying to get a LinqDataSource to work with them and keep getting the runaround by support.  On my site I currently cannot use LinqDataSource at all.  LinqDataSource throws a SecurityException for Reflection because they did not install .NET 3.5 correctly.  (As described in section 2.1.4 of download.microsoft.com/.../dotNetReadMe.htm ) :(

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Alicia, also with .NET 3.5 on your shared hosting accounts at Go Daddy it is not possible to get write permissions on files in the application root directory or its subdirectories. I got this statement from technical support at Go Daddy.

It is a serious problem for log files or VistaDB database files. The Medium Trust used by Go Daddy doesn’t need to be such restrictive.

Also the remarks to change to virtual or dedicated server are not particularly helpful in this case.

George

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I contacted tech support to check if their hosting package support ASP.net 3.5 (or .net framework 3.5) and Silverlight. I received an email from tech support that said:"

Thank you for contacting Online Support. This would be possible on our Windows deluxe and premium hosting plans. They support multiple websites as well as .NET 3.5 and Silverlight applications."

I almost sign up with them but thank God I found this page and read everything about the supoprt for .Net I guess they are just traying to get some money out from me.

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Not sure if anybody is still having issues, but I haven't had any trouble using ASP.NET 3.5 with godaddy shared hosting. Plus, you can also use the ajax control tool kit as well.

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It's good artice for me cause i've almost purchased hosting on GoDaddy. But I don't need troubles with Medium Trust and I need remote access to my SQL databases with Sql Management Studio.

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I've been using godaddy since about a year (linux shared hosting) and did not have any problem until and was actually quite satisfied.

Now I needed a windows shared hosting account and noticed that they do support the latest .net releases. What one must consider is that the trust level is "medium" by default and that prevents for example NHibernate to work properly due to ReflectionPermission exceptions. They do not increase the trust level for individual websites.

did you actually sell your house? :)

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please do not consider my previous comment as I was wrong. The trust level is by default set to medium but they STILL just offer up to 2.0 in shared hosting. my mistake.

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It's good to discuss this issue on this page. It helped me and other people not to waste our time-and-money.

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With a new account I tried every every trick I knew to get Linq running including remote access to my SQL databases with Sql Management Studio. Even including a SQL server database in my project with remote access turned on (through the Surface Manager) fails to allow a Linq connection.  When I need to go Linq ORM I will just have to go to another ISP.  4 hours of testing is enough!  Thank goodness my employer fully embraces Linq so I do not feel left out of the new technology.

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I also got some space from godaddy.com. But not able to view the aspx files. Something like "Bin folder has to converted". Godaddy is so complex unnecessaryly..

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help.godaddy.com/.../687

Apparently they listened!  3.5 is up and running on GoDaddy.  Other comments remain valid (trust level = medium).  Need to research using .asp vs .aspx vs .anythingelse as a file extension, but shouldn't be a problem either way.