Ask HN: Best ASP.NET full trust web host?

1 points by fam 13 years ago | 3 comments

I'm in need of a Windows web host that provides full trust access. Shared hosting is fine and the cheaper, the better, as I'll only need it for the next few months. Any good recommendations?

dillon 13 years ago |

I don't intend to start a flame war, but I would like to recommend maybe using Mono on Linux instead of .NET on Windows. http://www.linode.com has some fantastic servers, I use mod_mono on Apache.

I apologize for not answering your question directly for I have don't have any experience with Windows or Windows hosts for that matter. If Windows is a MUST I apologize that I could not help.

fam 13 years ago | |

Thanks for the suggestion. I've looked into Mono+Linux as a solution but I (unfortunately) need the server to host an Umbraco CMS instance which apparently doesn't work well with Mono.

dillon 13 years ago | | |

That's unfortunate, but I understand. If you go to Microsoft's developer page they have a good list of potential Hosts that you can use. I'm sure if Microsoft advertises for them then they are a good choice.

There is also Amazon, http://aws.amazon.com/windows/.

I found this on the internet, http://kevinfitzgerald.net/articles/umbraco-and-mono.htm and I am sure you have seen it too. Mono's beta 3.0 release looks promising, once it hits stable there is a good chance Umbraco will be less painful to use.