Special Windows Hosting requirements !

[cmsesan1]

I am considering hosting 2 Web sites here but need to ask some questions first.

I currently have a domain name registered with fasthosts, and have changed the nameservers there to point to softsyshosting where I have 2 Web sites as follows:

sansburycc.com - main Web site
hbs.sansburycc.com - demo Web application

I guess that users are directed to the correct Web site based on hostheaders, because no further coding was required. Can I create these 2 Web sites on your shared hosting, change the nameservers at fasthosts and expect things to work without me writing any code? Another hoster required me to write code to point traffic to each subdomain.

My demo application (ASP.NET 3.5) requires full trust, and 'Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008'. Are those features available?

Thanks very much for any help.


Ed Sansbury

[websud]

Ed

Websites sansburycc.com and hbs.sansburycc.com (as main domain and its sub-domain) can certainly be added on any of our Hosting packages. If you wish to add them on our Shared Hosting servers then we will provide you our name servers which you need to set / point at the domain registrar fasthosts. There is no code required to get the domains pointed to our server. let me also clear if you want URL rewriting method to redirect your sites then we will also provide ISAPI_Rewrite on our servers which is an URL rewriter for Microsoft IIS and you need to write the code as per your requirement in .htaccess configuration file.

Considering your other requirement, we do have ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 installed along with ASP.NET AJAX server side controls. Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 is a client side application which you need to download on your local computer for its usage.

We wish you have a Great stay with us

[cmsesan1]

The ReportViewer must be installed on the server to enable viewing Microsoft reports. discountasp had this on their servers, and softsyshosting installed it when I requested it. I cannot post a download link to see what is required, but if you search google for 'Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 SP1 Redistributable' you will see what I am talking about. I can understand the confusion because I guess that a control is downloaded by the client to print the reports. I need to confirm that this can be installed on your shared hosting server though, as without it my demo application is useless.

I think the application has to run in full-trust for ReportViewer to work, for logging via Enterprise Library to work properly, and for my licencing scheme. Please could you confirm that an application can run in full trust mode on your shared Windows hosting?

Would traffic be directed automatically to the 2 sites once the nameservers at fasthosts were changed to yours? If not, what would be required to do so (how to get url rewriting working)? I know that I can enter hostheaders in IIS to do this on my own server, and that a scope and A records have to be added to my DNS server. Is this done automatically on your shared hosting? I guess I have been spoilt with my currect hoster where I just set up Web sites in their control panel, ftp them into the correct directories and it just works. The trouble is that they are in Denver, so everything slows down depending on the time of day.

Thanks


Ed

[websud]

Hello Ed,

Earlier you had requested for 'Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008' which supports Windows Vista and Windows XP only, now you have requested 'Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 SP1 Redistributable' which supports Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP; which we will surely provide it to you on our server.

Name servers once set at domain registrar takes 24 to 48 hours to propagate, so you either need to wait for that much time OR you can also set WWW A record at the domain registrar pointing to our shared server ip address which we will provide once you have an account with us. On your request we will enable ISAPI rewrite for the domains you wish to set the URL rewriting.
You can also manage DNS settings of your site from the control panel provided, any doubts or queries relating to DNS settings will be assisted by our Tecnical Support Admins avaialble for you 24 x 7 through live chat support or ticket system.

[cmsesan1]

Originally Posted by websud

Hello Ed,

Earlier you had requested for 'Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008' which supports Windows Vista and Windows XP only, now you have requested 'Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 SP1 Redistributable' which supports Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP; which we will surely provide it to you on our server.

Both of these must be installed on the server, not the client, and they are both the same program with different versions as far as I know.

[websud]

Hello Ed,

No worries on that, once you have an account on our server we will surely run 'Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 SP1 Redistributable'.