Windows Hosting FAQs III
General Windows Hosting FAQ
Development
In the advent of business growth, I may require more database storage space and/or user bandwidth quickly. What are your upgrade policies for such needs? How quickly can they be implemented? What are the costs of this type of scalability in your Windows hosting packages?
Other Requirements
Here is a list of other requirements that any hosting package would need to provide: -
• No file extension limitations
• Anti-spam and Anti-virus Protection
• Directory Password Protection
• Custom Error Pages
• Full Firewall Protection
• 24/7 FTP Access
• Control Panel (or similar) for Website
• Do you provide a browser-based file manager?
• Under the hosting package, how do I setup my SQL Server database?
• Under the hosting package, how do I add/edit/remove tables, stored procedures, triggers etc?
• Under the hosting package, how do I execute scripts against the server?
• Does the windows hosting package fully support managed stored procedures and UDFs in SQL Server?
• Under the asp.net hosting package, how do I upload and download a copy of the full SQL Server database?
• Under the windows asp mssql hosting package, how do I obtain and download the data within my SQL Server? And, what are the options for uploading data in order to insert it into the database via, for example, update scripts?
Exceptions
Are there any aspects or elements of the .Net Framework, ASP.Net, SQL Server or anything else that you do NOT provide and/or support in your hosting packages?
Upgrading
At some time in the future (within 3 years), the website shall be upgraded to Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and v3.5 of the .Net Framework. This is subject to review but the important requirement is that an upgrade path is available from the chosen hosting supplier.
Flexibility
I would like the ability to easily add-on services to my package as time goes by, without incurring excessive costs. How is this build into your packages?
Price
Do you supply a money-back guarantee for 30 or 60 days? This is important, as our deployment plans is under 60 days but more than 30.
I would like to know
(a) if you can supply a package that meets ALL the requirements above and
(b) a concrete price for this.
I would like a price both per month and annually for the package you can supply that MEETS the requirements above. Please could you supply this inclusive of VAT.
Disclaimer and Acknowledgements
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