Well guys, you agree or not, the fact still is that Shared Hosting is what the name implies. No matter if you have a dedicated pool or not, if something bad happens you are down. 

I have been in the reseller business from 1998. I have tried most hosting companies in UK and USA. And this is my opinion.

Also saying that "Sorry, this is not true" doesn't really mean anything you know. I can host a Classic ASP application in 50k pool and works FAST. I can't do that with DNN, Mojo Portal or Umbraco. Can i ?

or maybe i'm not that talented ....

lol

 Firstly Ed thank you for that feedback - but I have to agree with Costas comment here which didn't mention  -

 companies that provide a unique pool for each DNN installation.

That to me is pretty close to the mark.  And again, many hosters will avoid this where possible -firstly due to the control panels not always having that finite configuration option, through to the fact that just running a separate application pool without it even running uses about 70? mb of memory, I think - don't hold me to ransom on this, but if you can imagine someone running a machine with individual application pools, they might lose a % of revenue for hosting by not being able to max out the machine.

I really think that it's not just DNN specific. We've invested in this mother of a machine and - with ability to have 192gb of ram, and even with our fully optimised, highly cache lightspeed server.. do you think we can get this stupid Magento site moved over without errors. 200mb mysql db and 5gb of data has been arduous to say the least to get working as expected.

I think the common consensus here is to find a hosting company that has staff on hand that know DNN. That is the secret.  And evaluate your time over the cost of paying a little more for better service.

Anyway that's my two cents worth from Australia.

Hope this sheds some more light on things.

Nina Meiers