Re: SQL Server 100MB

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"Kevin Lawrence" <spamthis@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As the other poster said, good housekeeping would probably ensure
you'll never need as much as 100MB, unless you have a reason to retain
large amounts of historical data.

$10 per month sounds reasonable. I would recommend writing some test
data generation routines. Then you can test a potential host with
queries on real world sized data without having to ftp huge data files
for importing. Sometimes I wonder how the cheap hosts can make any
money, other than by sharing the box with many domains and giving zero
interactive support. Which brings me to the other point of writing
routines to archive your data, preferably to your local machine. I
think that at the low end of the market, changing hosts is a fact of
life. Better to be prepared for it.

Anyway, good luck. You seem to be a few months down the track than I
am. Your posts are throwing up some interesting areas for
consideration.

Thanks.

My site is so trivial that I can afford to spend a bit of time covering my
back a bit, I haven't actually started it yet, just want to get the
formalities out of the way.

What would you say was a reasonable amount to spend on a year's
host+domain?

Well, domain charges depend on who the registrar is for the domain you want,
and by and large its fixed. I pay about 25 quid a year plus a one off 20
quid registration.

Hosting is very much more different. Narrowing down for ASP.NET you can get
from as little as $1 per month to up to 100. Even shared hosting seems to
have an enormous price range. For my purposes, I have designed my site so
that I archive site related data back to my PC, and obviously I have a copy
of the app too. I changed host last month because the original host made
some configuration change that rendered Session events inactive. I got
involved in a protracted remote debugging attempt with them but in the end
they weren't able to solve the problem. Looking back it was a no hoper from
the start. The host has a wide spectrum of technologies on offer from Perl,
Ruby, ASP(.NET) etc etc. They can't be experts in all of them.

Switching was remarkable painless, and the site was only in a "mixed server"
state for about 3 days. Some mail might have got lost, but for me it wasn't
crucial. And yet, my original choice scored high on my normal "ask some
technical questions before you buy", and they responded quickly. So I
concluded the only option is to give a host a go and see how it pans out. I
wouldn't start with more than 10$ a month though. I'd look for a host that
offers a scalable range of hosting packages. Most appreciate that they have
to proove themselves.

FWIW I now pay 1$ per month. The site seems to work as designed and response
is good, except with the host provided site administration tool which runs a
bit slow. I guess they give it a lower priority than the aspnet worker
thread, which makes sense.






Kev




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