Individual Hosting Provider Notes

While Iron Speed cannot recommend specific application server providers, we offer these notes provided by our customers.  Please note that this information may be out of date and reflects an aggregation of customer comments made over time.

Hosting Provider

Notes

1and1

Iron Speed customers have reported that “...1and1 does not allow you to run applications on shared servers, only on dedicated servers.  They require certain DLLs in the application to be registered and are willing to do so only on dedicated servers.”

The location of System.Web.Extensions.DLL may cause problems in applications based on the Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework.  At latest report they do not provide the Microsoft .NET 3.5 framework.  They do not provide the MySQL database for ASP.NET applications.  (September 2008)

CrystalTech

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

Some customers have reported problems with role-based security.

Some customers have reported the “Medium Security” setting is too restrictive.  Medium Trust prevents access to the language translation RSX files (resource files) within your application’s BIN folder.  Also, the Base Classes employ the concept of reflection in many situations.  The Medium Trust level does not allow permissions for reflection which affects the normal working of applications.

DiscountASP.NET

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

DiscountASP.NET allows subscribers to create virtual directories under your main web page.  This is critical as Iron Speed Designer builds applications that work as a virtual application under the main web page.

At latest report they do not provide the MySQL database for ASP.NET applications.  (September 2008)

Easy CGI

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

“You can create as many virtual directories as you want by yourself, so you can run as many applications as you want without contacting their technical support.”

GoDaddy.com

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

“...works great for Iron Speed applications with Microsoft SQL Server and has very reasonable prices.”

The location of System.Web.Extensions.DLL may cause problems in applications based on the Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework.

Virtual Directory support

You can create a virtual directory ('Create Virtual Root') for your application using GoDaddy’s control panel if you subscribe to the ‘Dedicated Server’ plan.  Virtual directories may not be available in the Economy or Deluxe plans.  For these non-dedicated server plans, you may need to install the application in the root folder.

Microsoft SQL Server support:

GoDaddy.com “... does not support Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manager so I couldn't use them as I need to import records on an automated basis daily.”

“GoDaddy's Shared Hosting offers SQL Server but the interface is propriety and the remote connectivity feature is disabled.  Their Dedicated and Virtual Dedicated Hosting offer SQL Server with remote connectivity enabled.  While the Virtual Dedicated Hosting allows you to connect to the W2K3 platform using Remote Desktop Connection, you have to use the Plesk Control Console (able to launch from the RDP session or via your web browser) to "Install SQL Server".  This was fairly simple once I called GoDaddy’s Tech Support.  Once the SQL Server was installed and I created a test table, I was able to point Iron Speed Designer to the IP address of my Virtual Dedicated Server and connect successfully.”

Microsoft Access support:

For Microsoft Access databases, you may need to remove the “C:\” drive name from the database path specification in your application’s Web.config file.

Intermedia.net

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

Intermedia.net allows subscribers to create virtual directories.

Lunarpages.com

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

For Microsoft Access applications, you must put the Access database in your application folder.  Be sure to set the appropriate permissions to allow the file to be accessed.

MaximumASP

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

MaximumASP allows subscribers to create virtual directories.

Network Solutions

Customers have reported receiving “page not found (404)” errors on the default.aspx page in their applications.  The problem may be caused by the application having insufficient access to server variables.

ORCS Web

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

You may need to change the database connection key name in the appSettings section of your application’s Web.config file to conform to ORCS Web's internal naming policies.

“...prior to uploading the application to ORCS Web, I simply open the project in Visual Studio .NET, do a global find and replace (in all files) for the database connection key name, compile the application, then upload to ORCS Web.  Then it is an equally simple matter to reverse that process so I can once again open the application in Iron Speed Designer.”

PlanetHosting.com

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

Plesk

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.  The MSI Deployment Installer was used successfully to deploy an application to the Plesk hosting service.

ReadyHosting.com

Customers have reported applications were successfully hosted.

Webhosting4life

Customers have reported that the database permissions at this hosting provider are not properly set and have experienced difficulties in getting the provider’s technical support staff to properly set them.

See Also

Deploying to Application Hosting Service Providers

Example: Deploying to 1 and 1

Example: Deploying to CrystalTech

Example: Deploying to DiscountASP.NET

Example: Deploying to GoDaddy.com

Disabling Event Viewer Logging

Individual Hosting Provider Notes

Setting the .NET Trust Level for your Application