Umbraco hosting options

[Gumbo Robot]

I'm looking for somewhere to host an Umbraco CMS site.

Its fairly basic with sql server back end and not a huge amount of traffic.

Cloud server seems a bit OTT - some kind of shared hosting should do but I'm absolutely terrified of signing up to something and then find I don't have the fine grained control that I need and everything is accessed via some control panel. Then again, presumably with Umbraco all I need is access to the web root directory since that's where the umbraco binaries go but I'm still concerned that there could be some restriction and I don't find out until it's too late.

Anyone got any umbraco hosting recommendations?

[MicrosoftBob]

As worst case you can use an Sql Embedded database, especially if end clients are too tight to get a proper sql server license, but really anything with at least .Net 4 is viable

Trust permissions on the server used to be an issue with managed hosting, but unless you're still on Umbraco 4 that's all in the past

Cheapy .Net hosting like discountasp.net or similar would be fine

[Snarf]

It's probably over kill but for £16 a month you can get a low spec virtual server from 123 reg... If its low traffic you should be fine, I've got one for my site and a few small client sites (also umbraco).

Edit- just realised how old this post is!

[chineseJohn]

ehosting.com

I have a few client Umbraco websites hosted with ehosting.com - no issues at all.

So far I can't fault them and performance response has bee second to none.

[helpplease]

Would a VPS of some sort not do the job for you here ? You can pick one up pretty cheap and you have full control over it.

vultr.com for instance, pretty cheap and offers snapshots for backup etc.

1 CPU 1024MB MEMORY 20 GB STORAGE 2000 GB TRANSFER Monthly $8.00

[eek]

Would a VPS of some sort not do the job for you here ? You can pick one up pretty cheap and you have full control over it.

vultr.com for instance, pretty cheap and offers snapshots for backup etc.

1 CPU 1024MB MEMORY 20 GB STORAGE 2000 GB TRANSFER Monthly $8.00

You need a windows system and that seems linux based...

[helpplease]

1 CPU 1024MB MEMORY 20 GB STORAGE 2000 GB TRANSFER Monthly $24.00

That's with a w2k12 r2 licence.

If you have a windows licence already you can pic up a KVM based vps pretty cheap all over the place.

Not sure on the specs you need and vultr are not the cheapest.

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1 CPU 1024MB MEMORY 20 GB STORAGE 2000 GB TRANSFER Monthly $24.00

That's with a w2k12 r2 licence.

If you have a windows licence already you can pic up a KVM based vps pretty cheap all over the place.

Not sure on the specs you need and vultr are not the cheapest.

Not exactly cheap then compared to a linux server...

[helpplease]

Not exactly cheap then compared to a linux server...

Yup like i say, the windows licence is the expensive bit.