Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

John — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:14:14 GMT

Regarding WebHostForASP, I've been with them for about 3 months now and my site has been down several times each week. They have no means of monitoring their servers and there are clients on them abusing them. It's too bad that don't because they would be a good value. We are having to move our site off now. Just thought I would try to save anyone else the trouble.

re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

Handy — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:37:20 GMT

WebHostForASP.net http://www.webhostforasp.net also offer Windows Hosting + SQL Express for just $4.50 a month. And they also have tools to upload or attach your local sql express database. And I think that hosting plans below 5 is good idea cause a lots of programmers outside US cannot afford 15 dollars USD a month. For them it might be expensive when it get converted to their currency, and also they might be doing that for their hobby and doesnt require lots of support or uptime.

re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

ScottGu — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:42:46 GMT

Hi Martin,

Are you trying to load the images on the server-side, or create urls back to the images from the html on the client?

Thanks,

Scott

re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

martin harvey — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:58:14 GMT

vwd.hosting/database image filepaths This is probably a very simple uestion but I would appreciate some help. I have recently uploaded my site to vwd.hosting for testing and everything works fine except for the image file paths in the database. The file manager shows a file path of d:/users/terryito-1 / ProductImages /Chair.jpg i have tried the above and every combination i can think of including /terryito-1 / ProductImages /Chair.jpg (With and without the spaces) but I cannot get the images to load. Does anyone have any ideas many thanks martin

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re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

Steve — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:44:00 GMT

CrystalTech http://www.crystaltech.com/developershared.htm is offering developer accounts starting at $2.95 with a 30mb SQL Server database.

Great service!
I've been a happy customer for about 5 years.

re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

scottgu — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:20:00 GMT

Hi Eric,

My comment to James a few years ago was related to the fact that one of the things that made PHP more attractive to a lot of web developers was the fact that it was possible to get cheap web hosting -- much cheaper than the ASP.NET equivalent. We heard this a lot from customers who wanted low-price offerings for home and hobbyst use.

One of the things we have done over the last few years is worked with hosters to fix some of the licensing issues they had (specifically around SQL server pricing), as well as worked to increase the number of sites that can be hosted on a single box, and improved diagnostics to lower TCO. The result is the ability for hosters to optionally offer cheap offerings that matched their PHP/Linux equivalents -- and ensured that hosting price is no longer a reason to choose something other than ASP.NET if you absolutely want to pay as little as possible for a basic hosting account.

As you say above, the service quality you might get for $5 a month will be a lot less than what hosters offering $15-20 a month offer (you'll also probably get less bandwidth, SQL and file storage). Developers should think hard about the quality of service guarentees they want, and the level of service they require.

Clearly you wouldn't want to run a mission critical business application on a $5 shared host server account. However, if you have a site you are just trying out (or sharing with friends) and want to use it to program or blog for fun -- then having low-price offerings is something that is attractive.

Hope this helps,

Scott

re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

scottgu — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:11:00 GMT

Hi David,

We have a SQL Express uploading tool currently in beta that any hoster is able to use (we are working with about 2 dozen hosters to test it). Once it finishes the beta period we are going to be *very* aggresive promoting it and encourage everyone to offer it.

Hope this helps,

Scott

Re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

Simone Busoli — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:49:00 GMT

http://www.aspspider.net offers ASP.NET 2.0 completely free and unlimited hosting + SQL Express; the only limit is that they don't give domain names to everyone but just to selected members. Here the rules: http://www.aspspider.net/tips/Tip6.aspx

re: Free ASP.NET 2.0 + SQL Express 30 Day Hosting Offer

Eric Pratt — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:24:00 GMT

Just so the comment above does not seem out of place, this was mainly in response to:

http://www.coveryourasp.net/Under5Dollars (James Shaw comments: "A couple of years ago Scott Guthrie mentioned at dinner one evening that his goal was to encourage hosting companies to offer ASP.NET hosting with SQL Server for under $5 a month")