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What is Windows Web Hosting and
Our 2 Preferred Windows Hosting Providers...
In several articles published in our website, we have been
talking about windows technologies that are used in the web hosting industry.
All of them represent important pieces that, even when can be put to work
independently, belong to the Microsoft Windows family of products. Information
about SQL Web hosting,
Exchange Server Web Hosting,
Sharepoint Web Hosting and
ASP.Net Hosting has been provided for our
users so that they can better understand the underlying components of each
technology in relation to the web hosting plans available to them. But in this
one, we wrap up everything and finish up with a listing of the two windows
hosting providers that we consider have the most solid hosting offers
for the general public.
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Windows hosting, in the most broad definition, refers
to all web hosting services that are running on a server that is using a
Microsoft Windows operating system. Having a Windows OS installed on the web
hosting provider's servers implies support for several technologies and
rules out support for many others, rigth out of the box.
Technologies supported out of the box by Windows Hosting:
ASP pages, ASP.Net, Ajax, SQL databases, access databases, Silverlight, .Net
Framework (In all versions), Frontpage extensions, ADODB, VBScript, Javascript.
Technologies not supported out of the box by Windows
Hosting: apache web server, MySQL databases, SSH shell access, Perl modules,
open source web components.
Because of the inherent nature of the Windows platform and
its cost structure, the general idea is that the Windows Hosting plans
are more expensive than Linux web hosting plans. And this is generally true if
you do not receive the proper information about where to go for buying web
hosting plans based on the windows platform. That is not happening here, dont
worry. Following up on the cost issue, you are very likely to find many offers
in the web for very cheap linux hosting plans, but the trick is that the
reliability of these plans is questionable. You do not want to contract one of
these plans.
In terms of the disk space available for you as a user, this does not really
depends on the platform being used. In depends more on the storage hardware
trends in the industry. Actually, we are seeing a decrease in price for high
capacity hard drives so it is a common thing to find web hosting plans that
offer more than 300 GB of space.
One of the most important elements of the windows web hosting
plan is the support that you receive when you find any problems with your
hosting account. This has nothing to do with the technology being used, so for
evaluating vendors you need to find authority sources (Just as us) and read
their reviews. Post-Sale customer service is very important for your online
presence.
For windows web hosting, you can use dynamic and static
websites. Static websites are composed of html files only. Dynamic websites have
some special components such as the web.config file and asp or aspx pages.
In our research and testing, we have obtained the best
results in Windows Web Hosting with the following two (2) vendors (Go ahead
with confidence): Brinkster.com
and IPower.com
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