ASP.NET Web Hosting FAQ

ASP.NET Web Hosting FAQ

• What is shared hosting?

  Our ASP.NET hosting packages are classified as Shared Hosting. It is called so because the resources on these servers are shared by many clients. In Shared Hosting a customer gets FTP access to a server for uploading their websites files. The customer also gets End-user Control Panel access to add/configure domains, database and to create email accounts, etc.

• Does the hosting plan support ASP and ASP.NET?

  We fully support Active Server Pages (AKA classic ASP) and ASP.NET. At SeekDotNet.com we specialize in ASP and ASP.NET web hosting for many years.

• Are your Web hosting plans reliable?

  Yes, our web hosting is hosted on high end servers with more RAM and processor power. We can ensure 99.5% server uptime guarantee and 99.9% network uptime guarantee. If we fail to deliver the uptime guarantee. We will compensate you for free hosting for the month.

• Why should I choose Shared Account over Reseller when I get more resources for less?

  A Reseller account is for reselling many smaller hosting accounts. It also requires more understanding and has a greater learning curve before you can start hosting websites.

• How can I enable ASP.NET 2.0 for my website that hosted at SeekDotNet.com?

  Yes, you can switch the ASP.NET version for your website in real-time using the ASP.NET Version Chooser tool in the IIS Tools section of your Control Panel.

• If i want to host my website at SeekDotNet.com, am i needed to transfer my domain name to SeekDotNet.com?

  No, it is no necessary for you to transfer your domain to us, all you have to do is change your DNS address to our DNS address and wait for 24 to 48 hours for propagation process.

• How long does it take for my account to be activated?

  We review and setup every new hosting account carefully, and typical activation time is less than 12 hours or maximum 1 day.

• How can i access my email accounts?

  We are using the latest Smarter Mail software for all our clients to manage their email contents very easily. You can choose to access your email via web browser or email application such as Microsoft Outlook.

• Do you offer UNIX / LINUX hosting?

  We do not offer hosting on the UNIX platform. We specialize in providing Windows based web hosting for many years. By focusing our resources, we are expanding our customers base who are satisfy with our support and hosting technologies.

• Do I get Free SQL Server Database?

  Yes, you get Free SQL Server Express Databases for any of our shared Hosting Plan only. You can useMS SQL Server express to host almost any type of ASP.NET website and MS SQL Server Express if fully compatible with MS SQL Server 2005 and MS SQL Server 2008. However we do recommend you to use SQL Server Express DB as your test or staging DB only. If you want to have production and higher quality database, please use SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005

• What hosting plan should I purchase?

  If you are looking to host your personal website or hobbyist website or light user access website then you can decide to purchase Personal Hosting Plan. Personal Hosting Plan is our cheapest shared hosting plan available. If you have budget and plan to have higher performance and fastest loading website, then you can consider purchasing Business Hosting Plan. Our Business Hosting Plan is suitable for those company website, company blogging website and e-commerce related website where high performance is needed.

• Do you support ASP.NET or Silverlight?

  Yes, definitely. Our Windows 2008 Server or Windows 2003 Server support Silverlight , Classic ASP, ASP.NET 1 , ASP.NET 2 , ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET 4

• Do you support Ruby on Rails and Java ?

  At the moment, we do not support Ruby on Rails or Java. We are more concentrating on Microsoft technology and Ruby on rails and Java is more compatible with Linux Hosting

• Do you support WordPress Blogging and WordPress Themes?

  Yes, definitely. Blogging is the way to go for future. We fully supported blogging from Wordpress or BlogEngine.NET. We also support all the Wordpress themes. We are using FastCGI from Microsoft to ensure highest compabitility with PHP platform. Prior to FastCGI, IIS has been known to crash a lot when hosting PHP Application because of the threading issue. Microsoft has fixed all this in their release of FastCGI.

• What version of SQL Server you have?

  We support SQL Server 2008. We used to support SQL Server 2005. However for new clients we install SQL Server 2008. MS Sql Server 2008 is backward compatible with SQL Server 2005

• Where are your servers hosted at?

  Our World Class Data Center is Located on Dallas, Texas. Connected to high backbone of 9 Major ISP Carriers in USA. We can ensure that your website hosted on our Data Center will have highest speed and if you are not happy with the performance. We do have 30 days money back guarantee period.

• Can I host more than one independent website?

  Yes, our Windows Hosting plans allow you to host multiple domains/websites according to the plan that you choose. Our Reseller Windows hosting plans allow you to resell your hosting websites quota and space