Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application?

Posted by sergiotapia on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Where have the HN crowd hosted their ASP.Net MVC3/4 applications?

Which hosting providers have you personally used in the past that you found nice to use?

I'm not looking for something expensive, it's only going to host my pet project (albeit it's going to get huge I'm sure as the competition is slim and the user base is very vocal).

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by 27182818284 on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:48PM (#5335171)

https://appharbor.com/

http://www.windowsazure.com/ of course

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

I have experience with none of those, I just happened to be wondering the same thing the other day so I know those off the top of my head.

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by sergiotapia on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:55PM (#5335202)

AppHarbor looks nice but seems really limiting. Is it like Heroku where I can't even save files to disk?

Do you know of any good VPS providers that have Windows Server? I'm not new to configuring a server machine, but this is the first time I've actually hosted a webapp on another entities box. (I've always hosted in-house)

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by cl8ton on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @08:00PM (#5335228)

Why not try Microsoft Azure?

I'm hosting there and find the support and tools great, and not that expensive as it's use based.

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by soneca on Thursday March 07, 2013 @05:55AM (#5337054)

I'm hosting in Azure too, that's great, especially if you can get in Microsoft BizSpark program (not that hard), so you have 3 years of a free basic plan.

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by Avalaxy on Thursday March 07, 2013 @04:49PM (#5340533)

Azure has a free version: free Azure Websites. It's awesome, I've hosted a couple of my own tools/project on Azure Websites. You can easily upgrade to a reserved instance if you need more capacity. You can either choose one of many frameworks to install (such as Wordpress) or you can host your own projects (custom code).

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by nreece on Thursday March 07, 2013 @06:20AM (#5337111)

Been very happy with HyperV VPS from Ultima Systems: http://www.ultimasystems.net

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by eddiemunster on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @02:38AM (#5367175)

Try having a look here http://www.microsoft.com/web/hosting/home

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by Meltdown on Thursday March 07, 2013 @12:39PM (#5338920)

If you're just testing, use winhost.com - Cheap as Chips.

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I host an ASP.Net MVC4 application? by robodale on Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:08PM (#5339848)

I can back this claim up. I have a test version of an app running on winhost. It literally is cheap as chips (both american and english).

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