I am considering to host a small site at ehosting.com on their personal package. They confirmed that their hosting comes with ASP.NET 4 and MVC 2. Is that enough ? Are all the required MVC 4 dll's in the umbraco downloads ?
Or do you have some other suggestions for hosting packages in the same price range. Max $10 a month
There is a set of minimum requirements on the wiki here: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/recommendations/recommended-reading-for-it-administrators/minimum-system-requirements. The main show-stopper, if there is one, tends to be trust levels though. If the host runs IIS in full trust then you can be pretty sure everything is going to work. Officially medium trust is also supported, but I've personally had issues (such as desktop media uploader doesn't work) with running Umbraco in medium trust.
For me again, database back-ups are crucial too - you need to find a host with a decent and transparent back-up policy. Otherwise if there's a bug with umbraco that affects your content (there was one waaay back in early 4.x that caused the entire content tree to be deleted from the database!) at any point, or your client accidentally manages to permanently delete content, then you're totally stuck if you have no database back-up. Seems obvious to say, but I'm always amazed how many hosts don't offer accessible database back-ups, or their small-print allows them to charge you mega-bucks for db restores.
I tend to run things on dedicated or VPS accounts where I can control all of this, so I can't make any specific recommendations for shared hosting (which I'm assuming you're going for) but I hope it helps give some pointers anyhow...
Thanks for your reply. I already had a look at the page and it's not clear if MVC4 needs to be installed to be able to run the site. I got confirmation that full trust is supported on ehosting. And they do backups for a small extra fee.
MVC 4 can run on .Net 4 assuming you aren't targetting any features that require .Net 4.5 in any custom code - however if it's not installed you'll need to deploy various additional DLLs to your bin folder. That's perfectly feasible though - here's a link describing the process for MVC3 and I imagine for 4 it's very similar.
Hosting requirements for V6
Hi,
I am considering to host a small site at ehosting.com on their personal package. They confirmed that their hosting comes with ASP.NET 4 and MVC 2. Is that enough ? Are all the required MVC 4 dll's in the umbraco downloads ?
Or do you have some other suggestions for hosting packages in the same price range. Max $10 a month
Hi Dawoe,
There is a set of minimum requirements on the wiki here: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/recommendations/recommended-reading-for-it-administrators/minimum-system-requirements. The main show-stopper, if there is one, tends to be trust levels though. If the host runs IIS in full trust then you can be pretty sure everything is going to work. Officially medium trust is also supported, but I've personally had issues (such as desktop media uploader doesn't work) with running Umbraco in medium trust.
For me again, database back-ups are crucial too - you need to find a host with a decent and transparent back-up policy. Otherwise if there's a bug with umbraco that affects your content (there was one waaay back in early 4.x that caused the entire content tree to be deleted from the database!) at any point, or your client accidentally manages to permanently delete content, then you're totally stuck if you have no database back-up. Seems obvious to say, but I'm always amazed how many hosts don't offer accessible database back-ups, or their small-print allows them to charge you mega-bucks for db restores.
I tend to run things on dedicated or VPS accounts where I can control all of this, so I can't make any specific recommendations for shared hosting (which I'm assuming you're going for) but I hope it helps give some pointers anyhow...
Hi Dan,
Thanks for your reply. I already had a look at the page and it's not clear if MVC4 needs to be installed to be able to run the site. I got confirmation that full trust is supported on ehosting. And they do backups for a small extra fee.
Dave
Hi Dawoe
MVC 4 can run on .Net 4 assuming you aren't targetting any features that require .Net 4.5 in any custom code - however if it's not installed you'll need to deploy various additional DLLs to your bin folder. That's perfectly feasible though - here's a link describing the process for MVC3 and I imagine for 4 it's very similar.
Cheers
Andy
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