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License Developer, 6/11/2008 6:54:06 PM

I see that discountasp.net is a hosting parter of Sitefinity and am leaning towards using them as the provider for my project. What I thought was a bit odd was that when I searched their forums (where they tell you to go for technical support) for "Sitefinity" there were zero responses.

I figure that this is either really good or really bad. I'm posting this to ask the community about their own experiences working with discountasp.net or if you feel strongly about recommending another provider.

My trepidation comes from having already run into problems deploying to our QA/Staging servers and having had problems that I had to use remote desktop to correct. I've read the KB article here about deploying to discountASP.NET but I'd like to hear from your own experiences.

Thanks!!

, 6/12/2008 2:36:49 AM

Hi Brett,

Please read the following KB article: Discount ASP.NET Hosting Provider
You can also have a look at this forum thread:
DiscountASP and Sitefinity

Regards,
Rebecca
the Telerik team

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License Developer, 7/28/2008 4:34:00 PM

Oh my goodness. I spent much more time this weekend and today trying to get my site working on DiscountASP.Net than I had imagined.

For anyone trying to setup a new site on their server where it's going to be hosted in IIS7 do yourself a favor and read the document named IIS7.doc zipped and attached in this thread:
http://www.sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-forum-thread/b1043S-bdtabd.aspx

Before I found this document I had spent hours of time rambling around forums here and on the discountasp.net forums trying to find a solution. If I had found this earlier it would have saved me a day of debugging and my client a lot of grief. Sticky that thing please :)

Also, after deploying I found that many of my image pathes were no longer working. Tedius to update but easy to do so through the CMS.

Gabe Sumner, 8/11/2008 4:12:29 PM

Sorry I'm coming to this thread a little late.

I used Sitefinity for Goondocks.com for several months. Overall, I was happy with the service I received. There are certainly some setup issues, but it looks like you've battled through most of those already.

The other issue you might encounter is DiscountASP.net recycling (restarting) your web application during non-use. If you web site gets light use, it gets unloaded from memory. The "start-up" costs associated with reloading your application can result in slow load times.

To prevent this I used DiscountASP.net's control-panel to schedule an automated request to my web site every 15 minutes. This prevented my web site from being recycled.

I wrote a bit more about this topic at the following URL:

http://goondocks.com/blog/07-10-26/Preventing_Slooooow_Sitefinity_Startups.aspx

If you discover any other tips please let us know!

Thanks,

Gabe Sumner
http://www.goondocks.com/

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