Hi,

We are considering using DNN to design a real estate portal. Unlike others we aren't in love with Linux or Windows but DNN seems the best CMS of all of them.

However I have used Windows for web projects before and don't quite understand how DNN works in terms of what web hosting it may need behind it.

For example our site will probably use up to 2000GB of bandwidth per month (photos really chew it up) and could have a million page views or more per month plus email alerts, forum usage etc.

Are all the graphics, uploaded photos etc stored in the sql database or on the web server? Just trying to work out hard the database will have to work to service our site.

Also still trying to find a hosting company that can let us start out small while developing the site with little traffic and then upgrade to a bigger setup once public. Any recommendations?

Most the dedicated server options I have seen either give you a dedicated web server with a shared Sql server or your dedicated server runs the sql database as well. Of course 2 separate dedicated servers is probably the best option but until can afford that which is better of these 2 options?

Thanks,

Dale.

We currently have 4 sites hosted at iHostASP.net. We don't have have a ton of traffic yet. But, at least one site seems to go down every day. The sites usually come back to life without me having to contact support. I use HostTracker to monitor my sites and get "Http error:Http_client.No_reply" messages all the time. I'm not trying to bash iHostASP because they are always responsive to my support tickets. But, I think we are ready to upgrade to something more reliable. I have been looking at CrystalTech because they are a DNN sponsor. I was thinking of starting with the semi-dedicated web hosting and then possible upgrading to dedicated. If we went the full dedicated web hosting route, should we get one server for IIS and another for SQL?

Thanks.

Ivan