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I know it's been asked a few times recently but the search seems out of order. Anyone got a recommendation. Just for personal usage not commercial so needs to be reasonably priced. Can live with SQL express but do need 2005.
Stelly said:I use hostinguk.net which seem very good and not too dear... but you will pay no matter what with MSSQL server as they have to pay licencing
Stelly
pinkaardvark said:SQLExpress is free
elkdanger said:You also can't use it for live websites, and for multiple connections it will be very slow.
You can get a MySQL .Net Connector for ASP.Net, which has been a good experience so far. I've found that many hosts provide .Net hosting with a MySQL database for just as cheap as PHP/MySQL hosting.
pinkaardvark said:.. words..
thedazman67 said:I'm with UltimaHosts great customer service and good prices, fully featured.
http://www.ultimahosts.net/
thedazman
pinkaardvark said:With Express you don't actually have an Instance of SQL Server installed, it's a bit like access in that you just drop the .mdf and .ldf files for a database into your web folder. So the contention with other users of the hosting partners server is no different from any other file type.
Lots of ASP.NET 2.0 features rely on SQL 2005, in fact many features automatically use SQL express, so unless you have MSSQL access you lose a lot. There are lots of hosts out there that provide Express free or at reasonable rates, i'm just asking for reccomendations not M$ hating.
As said in my original post this is not for commercial stuff, just as a testbed for my own purposes so don't want a dedicated server or VPS but I am happy to pay a bit more ie £150 a year sort of figure.
elkdanger said:If it's just for testbed stuff, why do you need hosting? Could you not do your testbed stuff locally?
pinkaardvark said:Basically i'm a .net winforms SQL developer but I want to expand my skillset to include ASP.NET. So yes I can run everything locally but I'd like to publish stuff for review, I'd also like to knock up some commercial sites for friends etc to get me into the whole web design arena. I've built web sites before many moons ago and I don't have any problems with the technology, ie I know enough ASP/CSS/XML etc to get me through but I want some experience working with real published sites and if hosting is only a couple of hundred quid it's no real loss.
elkdanger said:One host that got recommended to me was 1uhosting.co.uk, which seem decent. You'll need to go for the business account to get SQL Server hosting, but it still seems within your budget.
huppy said:I can also recommend 1uhosting (can't remember if i was the one who recommended them to you elk!)
I've been with them for about 10months and have found them top quality. So far - things may chance if they suddenly grow.
huppy said:I can also recommend 1uhosting (can't remember if i was the one who recommended them to you elk!)
I've been with them for about 10months and have found them top quality. So far - things may chance if they suddenly grow.
pinkaardvark said:Looks good but a bit concerned about the "unlimited" dimension. what's the performance like? and can I ask what your hosting with them.