Hi all ..

Could any buddy tell me which are the best windows hostings companies in the world .

i would appreciate your replies

Regards

Ghaffar

Hello,

You could check here: http://www.HostingASPNet.net

Regards

Bit lame to be replying saying your one of the best.

Hunzian:

Hi all ..

Could any buddy tell me which are the best windows hostings companies in the world .

i would appreciate your replies

Regards

Ghaffar

I would look at hosts that have won awards from third parties like magazines.  For example, one ASP.NET web host that I normally use is Discountasp.net.  They were named the 2007 best hosting service by Visual Studio Magazine and asp.netPRO Magazine, which are two respected magazines within the developer community.  As a ASP.NET developer, I subscribe to both of them. 

Discountasp - hmmm i thought there were good, but after they were down for few days .... not so sure anymore. (and i really don't care that it was massive DOS attack on their servers - they were down for days ! )

I've been with re-invent for close to a year and have had very good results.   They are at http://www.re-invent.com

I can say that we are a good hosting service, maybe not the best, but we're darn good on customer service.  Since I'm a .Net developer myself, I tend to taylor my servers for .Net 2.0 applications.

If you want to look around or ask me a question, feel free. 

http://www.gizmobeach.com

King Wilder

877-449-6623

TOMCIO:

Discountasp - hmmm i thought there were good, but after they were down for few days .... not so sure anymore. (and i really don't care that it was massive DOS attack on their servers - they were down for days ! )

I remember CrystalTech had a significant DOS attack a few years ago and you still recommend them???  I'm sorry I have to disagree with your recommending of them.  Ever since Tim left, CT is not the same anymore.

I also think 1and1 is a poor excuse for a web host.  Ever tried transferring your domain name/web site away from these guys?  It's a nightmare.  Also, they don't support AJAX, whats up with that???

 WebHost4Life ???  Let's just say their only solution to fixing a customer's problem is moving that customer's web site from one server to another.  Why can't they get all of their servers to work the same? 

iration:

I remember CrystalTech had a significant DOS attack a few years ago and you still recommend them??? 

Every hosting can have this kind of problems, but important is the time it takes to fix the problem

YES I STILL RECOMMEND CT- from what i remember it took them about 4 hours to find solution, block IP's and make everything works. Discountasp DAYS !!! please tell me you see the difference...

iration:

I also think 1and1 is a poor excuse for a web host.  Ever tried transferring your domain name/web site away from these guys?  It's a nightmare

Agree they are not best host :) - still i have about 20 asp.net sites with them for years now & with most of them i never had any problems. If you want to transfer domain or cancel package you go to cancel.1and1.com and i never had problem doing that. And yes they have terrible support but servers are fast and works ok. So if you need cheap host with lot of space, don't need ajax they might be ok for you

iration:

WebHost4Life ???  Let's just say their only solution to fixing a customer's problem is moving that customer's web site from one server to another.  Why can't they get all of their servers to work the same? 

Have to agree with that. Some of the sites i host with them works perfect other i have problems from time to time . And yes they best solution for problem is moving site to different server

 Still CrystalTech is the best host in my opinion (for about $16./m) and if your budget is about $10/m yes i would consider 1&1 Hosting or  WebHost4life . If you have $60-$100 try fullcontrol.net - they are great.

My point is that depending what you need from host and what your budget is you may consider different host as good.

Full Disclosure: I work for DiscountASP.NET

Yes, DiscountASP.NET was down for 2 days due to a massive DDoS attack back in June 2007. This is public knowledge and we are not ashamed in any way about it. There are many reasons why the downtime was for an extended period of time and we recap the entire episode in our Community Forum out in the open.

The attack was MASSIVE in scale - even the security team of our upstream provider (who hosts major search engines and major banks) could not believe the size of the attack and they could not even provide a timely solution to this attack. We even discussed diverting traffic to other Tier 1 Dedicated Hosting providers who claim to have excellent DDoS mitigation services and they all refused our business because they could not "handle" the traffic - and that is after their System Admins and Security experts kept repeating "Oh my God, Oh my God" when we described the attack. And let me just say that these dedicated hosting providers are the very same ones that many other windows hosts use for their infrastructure.

We did mitigate the DDoS attack and resolved the issue by partnering with Prolexic. This is the same company that HUGE ISPs, domain registrars, fortune 500 companies, major news sites, and even some foreign country governments use to protect themselves from massive DDoS attacks.

People like TOMCIO continue to bring up old news about the DDoS attack. I think that the ASP.NET forum users are a lot smarter than that. If we were truly a terrible host, we would have lost tons of customers after the DDoS attack. The exact opposite happenned and we continue to grow in new sales and keep our customers. Why? DiscountASP.NET has moved forward and our hosting platform is even more protected than was before.

So customers should consider DiscountASP.NET, if they want to have secure hosting. I would challenge any body that is considering the other hosts that other users have posted here to ask those providers about their security infrastructure and please let us all know about their results. We don't rely on our upstream provider or luck for our customer's security - we've proactively invested over 6-figures in a Tippingpoing Intrusion Prevention System and we continue to use Prolexic DDoS Mitigation services.

What do the other hosts do to protect their customers from similar DDoS attacks?

dasp:

People like TOMCIO continue to bring up old news about the DDoS attack.

it happened , so I talk about this when I give opinion about your company...and I'm HAPPY to hear you are even better protected now - THAT IS GREAT

dasp:

If we were truly a terrible host, we would have lost tons of customers after the DDoS attack.

I NEVER  said that you are terrible host !

dasp:

...we continue to grow in new sales ... Why?

TOMCIO: You may have never stated that DiscountASP.NET is a terrible ASP.NET hosting provider, but you are implying that we are not a good host because we were down for 2 days due to a DDoS attack.

But, now that you are more educated about DiscountASP.NET and you know that we are even more secure and protected than before the DDoS attack, I am sure you will mention our Tippingpoint IPS and Prolexic security infrastructure when you bring up the DDoS attack again in any future post.

And as for our new sales, yes, most definitely we grow due to advertising but we also grow through very strong word of mouth.

By the way, what is the security infrastructure of the hosts that you recommend? If you are so down on DiscountASP.NET for being down for 2 days for a massive DDoS attack, the other hosts must have superior DDoS protection. I'm curious to know.

dasp:

I am sure you will mention our Tippingpoint IPS and Prolexic security infrastructure when you bring up the DDoS attack again in any future post.

sure, i will remember that and as i said i'm happy to hear that you found better solutions to protect your customers

dasp:

the other hosts must have superior DDoS protection. I'm curious to know.

me too :) i have to ask CT what they use and i let you know .

Here is a copy of reply from CT :

"As far as DDoS protection, we have several levels that act to prevent them and minimize any downtime. We have built in protection in our border routers which can handle smaller DoS attacks and if the traffic is so large that it actually starts affecting our network, we have a team of network engineers on hand that will manually either re-route traffic or in the worst case scenario blackhole the IP of the site(s) that is under attack."