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JacquesDP3-Mar-11 7:53
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Hi Guys....

I'm at the point of gong bald and sitting with chunks of my hair on the ground next to me with my current hosting company.

Following is a brief description of the hell I have been going through the last 2 weeks, so if you want to skip it all, just go to the last two sentences Wink | ;)

I'm currently doing my hosting via Aplus.net, and the first client that I have where is something involved other than a quick dotnetnuke or wordpress site, a nice little challenge for once, then it turns out a bigger challenge than what I was anticipating.

Well... it started that I need a nice sql database, so quickly hop onto their control panel and..... oops, unable to create the domain via the control panel.. get an error. No problem, on chat and they create the domain for me... step one done... domain is registered.

Second thing, the database.
Back into the control panel to create the database... ooops, unable to create the database via the control panel... get an error. No problem once again on chat, they do something in the backend, ask me to try again, sure thing there I can create the database from the control panel. Nice thing about the package that I have, is that I get a free MSSQL database Shucks | :-\ , just what I want.

Database is created but I'm unable to connect via management studio, back on chat... ok I need IP whitelisting to connect to the database, fine I give them my IP address... while they are busy with whitelisting I get a nice sms, there just went R170 (South African Rand) off my account Mad | :mad: . I'm on chat with them so I query this as I'm suppose to get a free database. Yes they tell me, the free database is a 50MB database, and I created a 100MB database, but 100MB was the smallest option that there was, you can choose either 100, 250, 500, 1GB or 2GB database.. Oh they tell me, they will log a support ticket to change the database and then I need to contact their billing department to get the refund. (Still waiting for that to be cleared up) and did I mention that is R170 per month. OMG | :OMG: OMG | :OMG: OMG | :OMG:

Now all this happend 2 weeks ago.
Every since then I have been having issues connecting to the database where I get that lovely network or instance related error message, so for the last 2 weeks I have been on their chat on a daily basis, re-requesting the IP whitelisting for it appears to reset somehow that they can't explain.

So I think it is time for me to move hosting company, so any suggestions for reliable and affordable hosting companies that I can look at?
My requirements are dot net 4.0 with MS SQL database
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