Will .NET Run On A Standard Shared Windows Shared Hosting Account?

Hey all,

I am starting to learn ASP.NET and I just wondered if the pages I make will work no problem on most standard Windows shared account hosting?

 

You need to check with your web hosting service providers , they may not have IIS ,etc installed.

 

Most of the Hosting providers with Windows hosting supported do support ASP.net.
Sometimes they do not support MS SQL server, so that needed to be checked.
Godaddy, reseller club, ipowerweb, Lunarpages are good hosting providers with ASP.net support.

 

Most Windows based web hosting accounts will be running IIS (I've seen a few run Apache under Windows but not many), if it runs IIS then it will normally have .NET.

The problem comes with what version of .NET does it have, does it allow full trust (Unlikely for shared hosting, normally for dedicated or virtual), does it have ASP.NET AJAX installed etc etc.

You have two ways to approach it

1) Pick a host in advance and develop to their capabilities. IE If they only support .NET 2 not .NET 3 or .NET 3.5, limit yourself to .NET Framework 2.x.

2) Develop in whatever you want/need (Keeping a close eye on what you do use and its deployment requirements), then choose a host when its done.

The advantages to this is that you don',t get hampered in what you can develop with however the major downside is that if you go wild with technology you could end up with a very short list of potential hosts which normally would end being expensive.

Jen

 

Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated, was very helpful!