DiscountASP Review

DiscountASP Editor's Review

If you are looking for a web hosting company that provides highly advanced enterprise class Windows hosting, then look no future than DiscountASP.net. This company uses all of their in house resources to provide the perfect solutions for the .NET developer.

Their extremely sophisticated Windows hosting packages are exactly what you require if you are an ASP developer or a Microsoft ASP.NET developer. If you plan on using either ASP.NET or ASP driven applications, there is not another company in this industry that possesses more expertise in these areas, than DiscountASP.net does.

Over the many years that this company has been in business, they have won many of the top awards in the Windows web hosting category, including the following:

• Best ASP.NET Hosting Gold Award from DevProConnections Magazine Community Choice poll for 2010 and 2011.
   
• Best ASP.NET Hosting Service Merit Award from Visual Studio Magazine Community Choice poll for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
   
• Best ASP.NET Hosting Service Award from Code Project Member's Choice poll for 2009, 2010, and 2011.
   
• Best ASP.NET Hosting Provider Editors Choice Award from Mindcracker Network for 2010.
   
• Best ASP.NET Hosting Service Award from asp.netPRO Magazine's Readers' Choice poll for FIVE consecutive years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.

When it comes to selecting a web hosting company it certainly can seem like a daunting task, since so many of them appear to be very similar, that is until you start using them. It is only then that the cracks in their armor become apparent, and you come to realize they are not all the same.  The fact of the matter is, there are certain firms that stand head and shoulders above the competition, and DiscountASP.net happens to be one of them.

The web hosting industry is a very competitive field to say the least, and when one company year after year is selected for so many awards by their peers, it certainly tells you something about the quality of the products and services that they supply. Below you will find a comprehensive review about DiscountASP.net broken down into the categories which our editor’s believe to be the most important for a potential user of these products

Anybody that has ever researched the web hosting market, will know that virtually ever firm that operates in this arena offers Windows based servers. That being said, there are very few that concentrate all of their efforts on this market, since it is so small when compared to the number of people that use Linux based servers.

If you plan on building a website or using any applications that must be on a Window’s server, why would you ever consider using a company that does not specialize in providing the very best customer experience presently possible?

For that very reason, and because of all of the awards that they have won from the people that are in the know when it comes to using this technology, we strongly recommend that before you make your final purchasing decision, you give DiscountASP.net all the consideration in the world.

Editor's Comments About DiscountASP Price Value

DiscountASP base hosting plan starts at $10 per month if you elect to be billed quarterly. If you select the yearly option, you total cost for the year will be $90, because you will receive three months for free. Presently they are waving their setup fee which is normally $25, for both USA and Europe based datacenters.

With this plan, you are able to select from either 2003 or 2008 Windows based web hosting, and you are given a 30 day no questions asked money back guarantee, regardless of which payment option you initially selected. To help improve your websites security and reliability, each site is hosted in its own isolated application pool.

This plan includes 1000 MB of disk space and 80 GB of monthly data transfer. If you believe that you will require more disk space or data transfer, please speak with one of their customer service representatives to receive a quote. Each new customer also receives a $100 Google AdWords credit. There are also a ton of other features that come with DiscountASP base hosting plan, and you should review their website thoroughly if you have a specific requirement.

Editor's Comments About DiscountASP Reliability

There is nothing worse than trying to complete a new project and not being able to access the sever that it is stored on. DiscountASP has not won all of the awards that they have because they are not the most reliable company currently in the web hosting industry. Their servers have a 99.99% uptime, and they maintain backup generators just in case of a local electrical outage.

Editor's Comments About DiscountASP Control Panel

Some web hosting companies keep their prices very low and then hit you up with extra fees for every little addition thing that you need. Thankfully, that is not the case with DiscountASP, and their web hosting control panel is included in the base plan.

Editor's Comments About DiscountASP Customer Support

When it comes to customer service, there really is not a more important feature that a web hosting company can provide. After all, sooner or later something is going to go wrong, and you are going to need to get help solving the problem.

Many companies in this industry outsource their customer service department to save money. DiscountASP.net, of course does not follow this type of business plan because they know that they would be cheating their thousands upon thousands of highly loyal clients. Most of DiscountASP.net customer services representatives have been with them for many years now, and have undergone extensive training for Window’s based servers.

Since every web hosting company likes to boost that they have an exceptional customer service department, we always like to test them out by asking them a few very difficult questions. Before we called DiscountASP.net, our editors selected two not so easy questions from a group of twenty that they prepared to see if they could meet our challenge.

When we call up a web hosting company’s customer service department to test them out, we are grading them on four different aspects of the conversation. First, is their technical knowledge required to solve our issue. Second, is their ability to convey their suggestions in a manner so that even a novice can understand what they are saying. After all, not everybody that will need support is an expert, so what good does it do if you know everything there is about a Windows server, if you cannot pass along that expertise to somebody that is a little less familiar with the system than you are.

Third, we want to make sure that they are not under a great deal of stress because they are being overworked and try to get us off the line quickly, so that they can move onto the next person who needs their help. Fourth, as anybody knows that has ever needed support, waiting on the line for 15 minutes until somebody answers, is totally unacceptable.

When we called DiscountASP.net, we are glad to report that our call was answered almost instantly, on the third ring to be exact. We then hit up our customer service representative with a few questions that would force most web hosting departments to put you on hold, and go get the manager to answer them.

John, their rep did not waste any time at all trying to tell us what we needed to do. But, we told him to slow down because this was the first time we used a Windows server, and did not really understand everything that he was saying. His response was, “No problem, I can be with you all day if you need me to in order to get you setup and running properly.”

Thankfully, it did not take all day to solve our problem, but we were more than surprised that he said he would stay with us until everything was working perfectly. After we got him to slow down a little and speak in a language we could understand, we felt is support was nothing less than, superb.