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4/20/2007 7:15 PM
 

Hi

Is there someone that have a DNN 4.5.1 site up and running at webhost4life?
Im thinking of signing up for a account and would be greatful for knowing all experience you have.
For a while ago someone wrote they had some problems with the dnn site to load. Someone else didnt have it so please let me know and if you have a site at wh4l i would be greatful if you could show it for me so i could experience how fast it loads.

Thanks!

 
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4/21/2007 2:01 PM
 

I have used WH4L and they are pretty good for the cost, expecially when for the amount of diskspace, bandwidth and SQL space you get.  They also have 24/7 support.  In addition, they have a pretty good referal program so you could pay for your site if you get enough referrals.  If you do use them use the following URL so I can get credit for the referral (http://www.WebHost4Life.com/default.asp).

I am also a reseller for IHostASP and have been very pleased since moving my sites over here (more uptime than WH4L).  I only host sites for my customers (not a general hosting reseller).  If you just want someone to host your site, you can sign up with IHostASP directly.  If you want someone to host your site and in addition need other services like site administration, DNN consulting, custom programming, etc feel free to contact me at pcresourcesllc@hotmail.com.  You can view my site on iHpstASP here.  Here is another site I host and do most of the site administation for: Saving Our Boys.

 
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4/23/2007 6:30 AM
 

WH4L are good value and have a fairly unbeatable package. If you're messing around with a single DNN instance, get an account at PowerDNN. If you need to run more sites, plus PHP and other tools as well, get a shared account at WH4L. If you're planning to onsell lots of DNN sites to paying customers, get a VPS account at WH4L. DNN simply will not perform reliably on a server shared with dozens or hundreds of other ASP sites. Drop me a pm if you want to check my VPS account out.

The support at WH4L is highly variable and can be quite comedic if you can maintain your sense of humor. The testimonial they chose for their homepage says it all "Fascinating, is the only word I can imagine to define the client support service."

They obviously missed the joke... hah!

Rob

 
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4/23/2007 8:09 AM
 

Yeah I second what Rob has to say, good price and some funky support.

We are running DNN 4.4.x over there (just because 4.5 is not stable yet even in our own test environment) The one thing to watch out for is that when you create domains they will say that they are running .NET 2 but they are really set to .NET 1.1, so you need to go in and set them to 2 anyway to make your DNN 4 site run.

..or else.. when you are running .NET 1,1 then you will get an exception thrown, but when you set in the web.config to display the exception to remote users (to find out whats going on), then it will make absolutely no difference and will still not show you the exception details.. and you will waste a whole heap of time contacting support, trying to fix the problem youself, etc.. like I did.

 
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4/23/2007 8:22 AM
 

Oh also you will find with WH4L there are a few little hidden "upgrade fees" that you will most likely face, such as enabling email on multiple domains, rediecting domains to separate folders, etc.. they are only small fees and are more anoying than anything else.

So when we first found out about one of these fees we were in a crunch and my colleague entered the CC# with dashes, so it didn't like that, but also it didn't give him any meaningful error, it sounded an typical  "database offline" type error. So we were a day or so late on that release.

But other than these things, the account perfoms quite well, we needed a plan with a lot of bandwidth and these guys had the best deal and were highly recommended. Previously we were with GoDaddy and that is a really bad environment if you are going to do more than just serve up static pages. You will see a lot of 3rd party vendors specifically state compatability or mostly not compatable with GoDaddy.

 
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