Hello eduquint;

First of all welcome to DotNetNuke Forums, i usually use Godaddy and EasyCgi to host my portals.

Godaddy has one of the cheapest hosting plans (huge disk space, large bandwith etc) However Godaddy has no knowledge about how DNN works on their servers :S

I used EasyCGI to host a video portal.

Main difference about these two was Easy CGI has Full Trust support and customer support. Godaddy has only medium trust support.

If you ask me (if you are a newcomer, a new dnn starter) i would go with Godaddy, you can try auto-installs, and ask questions here, dnn community will help you with pleasure.

But if you think professional you can pick up another hosting company (maybe EasyCGI, or PowerDNN)

One final thing: I have a dnn blog that describes everything you need to do with godaddy in order to get a working dnn website on their root.

This also helps you host multiple domains (websites) in a single hosting account.

If you are interested you can subscribe to my blog

Regards.

Thanks for your help.

I was planning to develop a portal for some clients of mine. The problem is that some of them are large corporations with their own hosting servers.

As I am new to the DNN technology, I was under the impression that I would be able to create a portal, compile it, and upload it to the hosting server and deal with it myself.

Apparently I was underestimating the product requirements. Now, it looks like this approach would not be feasible, after all.

I would need a DNN specific host, and this would be a big limitation. The DNN product appears to be very good and it seems to be the ideal solution to me, but this hurdle seems to be too big.

Another problem I am having is that, to give DNN a try, I installed it in my laptop PC, which already had Visual Studio 2005 installed. After several tries, I could not compile and run the product. I installed the full source code files. It gives me compilation errors. I searched for them in the DNN forums, but was no able to solve them. So, I could not see the product running yet.

I also tried the Starter Kit, but it did not work either. Could you give some hints here, so I could at least see the product running once?

Regards,

Eduardo Quintana