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My personal website, Aaronontheweb.com is about 7 years old. Until this year I had it hosted with a service called Blueberry Hill hosting; Bluehill never had any problem with uptime or bandwidth, but they had some of the worst support I have ever used.

I remember how hard it was to use their “control panel” for remotely administering my shared hosting website, and how they had a new login for some new service that didn’t work every couple of years, which I ultimately ended up losing and for some reason or another they couldn’t give me the information to get access to my own website.

When I decided to launch VandyStudents.com in the Spring of 2006, there was no doubt in my mind that I would be taking on a different host, and that’s when I discovered DiscountASP.NET. I’ve never looked back.

Here’s a short list of reasons why DiscountASP.NET kicks serious ass:

• 24/7 tech support service; I usually end up buying new domain names, add-ons, or full hosting packages at bizarre hours of the morning, and I get responses to my tech support inquiries within hours, sometimes minutes, of sending them.
• Instant set up; as soon as your credit card clears, your hosting is ready to go. You don’t have to wait on any humans to do the set up for you; a default shared IIS hosting instance is spawned on demand. I absolutely hated having to wait for a weekend to pass for Blue Hill to set up my hosting (they do have 24/7 service now though), but now I don’t even have to wait 5 minutes if I want a new hosting package right now.

• Easy-to-use Control Panel: DiscountASP.net offers a very user-friendly remote control panel for administering your shared hosting account with full access to features like:
  • Email account management
  • Default Document specification
  • Application management
  • .NET versioning (1.1 vs 2.0)
  • Web-based SQL Server 2000 Query Manager (if you use SQL 2000; SQL Server 2005 allows you to just connect from the SQL 2005 Client)
  • Windows permissions manager
  • Domain name management

  Those are just some of the features that I find myself using pretty frequently (VandyStudents uses SQL 2000) and I have grown to love them. What’s even cooler though is that DiscountASP.NET gives you access to their control panel API which you can implement in your own programs!

• It’s cheap; Starting at $10 a month with the first 3 months free is pretty darn cheap for ASP.NET hosting. It’ll cost you an additional $5/month for some type of database hosting, but even with at a total of $15/month (not including the first 3 months free) it’s dirt cheap given the high quality of service.
• PHP and MySQL Support;Yeah, that’s right, they host PHP5 on any IIS account free of charge, and a MySQL database costs just the same as any other database add on ($5/month). That way I can do both cool ASP.NET programs and use Wordpress on the same hosting instance!

As someone who got dicked around by other hosts, I am so glad to be have DiscountASP.NET as my ASP.NET host. They have treated me very well, and I am proud to accept commissions for referring other users to their service. Please get some DiscountASP.NET hosting today if you are tired of inconvenient or absurdly expensive ASP.NET shared hosting services.

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