[AccessD] OT: My web site and WebHost4Life

It is hard to know how this thing scales up, and in particular how a given
web site will scale up.  This is shared hosting of course, I don't have the
funds or the need for a dedicated host.  As long as the response is
reasonably quick that is all I ask.

I have to assume though that if you can afford the hardware, you can host
some pretty sophisticated, hard hit sites.  DNN claims to have hundreds of
thousands of sites now.

I am still trying to get VS 2003 to play nice with IIS, so far no luck.  I
want to try my hand at some simple custom modules but it requires a dev
system running DNN and so far I am just not getting there.  Sigh.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Michael Maddison
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:35 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: My web site and WebHost4Life


Just to throw in my 2c...
We use http://bottomlinecom.net/ 
We took the basic package, 3 x domains, 500mb space, 20gb traffic, up to 5
MS SQL db's (no size limit IIRC). Interestingly, we had the same problem
with DNN not working correctly until the domain was active.

DNN is pretty awesome, we got our site up very fast www.ddisolutions.com.au
we are still adding and 
fine tuning parts of it but overall are very happy.

We are a bit disppointed with the performance of bottomline but for 1/10 of
what it would cost in Oz to get the same level of hosting we will put up
with it for a while.  I don't know if we are getting ripped by MS but most
ISP's that offer SQL want 40-50AUD per MONTH for the privilege, and that's
on top of the hosting fees!!!! We have a sub domain that is written in
classic asp and uses an Access db, it performs very well so I suspect the
SQL db's are the bottleneck...

Only real issue so far with DNN is I wanted to put google search on the site
but it uses forms, my DNN/asp.net programmer tells me DNN will not like it
at all.  Havn't tested it yet so YMMV.

cheers

Michael Maddison

www.ddisolutions.com.au