Ask HN: Which hosting service provider for Windows hosting?

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by anujkk • 14 years ago

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What are some of the best shared/vps hosting solutions for windows platform. I'm looking for something similar to webfaction/linode but for windows/.net.

WayneDB• 14 years ago

Here are some decent options:

- https://appharbor.com/

- http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/servers/pricing/

- http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

- http://www.hostgator.com/windows-hosting

AppHarbor is not a VPS, it's managed application hosting, so you don't get to touch the server itself. However, I found it to be a breeze to work with. Very easy to build an ASP.NET MVC app and quickly get it into production. They are basically managing the EC2 hosts and sharing them among their customers. HostGator is also not a VPS, it's shared application hosting.

I don't think there's anything as cheap as Webfaction.

jaz• 14 years ago

If you need to just host a .NET website, there's Azure Websites [0], which has a free plan.

[0] http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/scenarios/web-sites/

nreece• 14 years ago

Have a few Hyper-V VPSs running with Ultima Systems (http://www.ultimasystems.net) for a while. Been great so far.

Ask HN: Which hosting service provider for Windows hosting?

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