Hosting

IIS 7.0 hosting

Sean Lynch — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:39:21 GMT

I am curious if anyone could recommend a hosting company that is running, or has announce when they will be, IIS7 servers now that it is released.

I have looked around MaximumASP's site and have yet to find anything regarding a timeframe. Plus I am finding that several smaller shared hosting sites will fill my needs as well as a dedicated or virtual dedicated server does, for a decent amount less.

Preferably, they would not charge a per domain pointer fee.

Network Solutions, the feeling just isn't there

Sean Lynch — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:32:31 GMT

Yesterday I sent them an email, commenting about how cheep purchasing domains from Network Solutions feels. It certainly doesn't seem like it is the "premium" registrar that their cost of $34.99/year price¹tag for domain name registration implies. The primary points that I hope they change are:

Stop trying to constantly up-sell me, if I wanted these features I would ask for them. It generally takes 3 pages before I am finished, and each time I have to scroll to the bottom of the page.

I would like to see an option on the account settings, not to mention a log in before the up-selling, that would allow me to turn the up-selling off (putting an express button on top would work too).
Allow me to set default name servers, while it doesn't happen often I occasionally don't think to move my domain servers over to MaximumASP to be maintained there. Especially when I get it because I think it sounded neat. It really irritates me when I go to the site at some latter time and see them showing advertising on my domain, which I payed for, without receiving any of the money.
Stop trying to up-sell me when I am logging into my account. While this doesn't happen very often, this more then any other thing detracts from the value of the service provided. Its a lot like the in game advertising for that Battlefield 2142, which was the sole reason that many of my friends did not buy the game.

I might be missing something else, but really the user experience is about the only thing that could differentiate Network Solutions from their cheaper (much) competitors. I am giving serious thought to switching all of my domains over to GoDaddy, including those with a couple of years left with NS.

1) I know it can be less if you stay longer but that really is beside the point since most others start at around $10

Change of web host

Sean Lynch — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:19:50 GMT

I finally decided to downgrade the hosting package that I have with MaximumASP from a dedicated server to a virtual private server.

So far the new server has been good. The only real problem I have had is that I signed up for the the lower end VPS, which only has 394MB of memory, subtext seems to be taking up a good amount of it. Hopefully setting the application pool to recycle at 45MB doesn't cause any problems.