I've had nothing but problems while running DotNetNuke on hosted services over the last few years.  I've been through three different services, and I'm still running into daily problems with performance issues.   The frustration of not being able to work on the servers myself to fix the little problems like application pool settings has really irritated me, and some modules simply do not work like they should.   Several "big" projects I've been wanting to do have been on-hold for a couple of years now, waiting until I can get a reliable hosting service.

I've been eyeing up the move to a VPS (virtual private server) solution for some time now, but never could justify spending a couple of hundred dollars a month for the poor low-end VPS solutions I've seen offered before.  That is, until today...

Today, while researching a problem with my Hyper-V system at work, I ran across this hosting service:

http://www.hyper-v-mart.com/

They are offering (as their starter-level system) a Windows 2008 server with 1GB memory and 25GB of hard disk for $49.99/month.  It is a basically a server that you can do a remote desktop connection to and install almost anything you want.  While that is not a huge amount of disk space, it is still significantly larger than most of the hosting services I've seen so far.   Not to mention that you don't have to wonder how many websites are sharing your application pool because "you" are running the server!   Unless there is another virtual server on that host server that is really bogging down the system (which Hyper-V should prevent), I cannot see in any stretch of the imagination how it could be a worse performer than a typical shared hosting service, and it costs not much more than a typical shared-hosting solution!

With that being said however, I don't want to dive into this blindly and will do quite a bit of research on it before I commit to anything.  So, does anyone have any experience with this company or have any other input on this topic?

Thanks for the link... It looks like their starter package is $10/month more, and has lower specs, but it is also much more configurable and it looks like it includes an e-mail service.  Definitely something to look deeper into... I have the feeling there are more of these gems hidden out there!

 Also, if you're planning on running DotNetNuke in a virtual, it will certainly work, however, your performance won't be as good as a physical.  We know this because we used to have an extremely high-end VPS offering, however, all of our customers had poor expierences with performance.  To diagnose the problem, we paid Hewlett Packard consulting a lot of money to come in and tell us what our problem was.  They said we had one of the best virtual setups they had ever seen:  the problem was DotNetNuke.  They said that the reason DotNetNuke performs poorly on virtuals is because the DotNetNuke application is an extremely "I/O chatty" application and that doesn't virtualize well on VMWare or HyperV.