Ok. So how good are the pages on cross-browsers? I've seen a number of
issues with .net web pages rendering very differently on Explorer and
Opera or Firefox/Mozilla. I've also noticed some major speed differences
between Explorer and Firefox running on the same machine. I have no
problem supporting ASP as a server side page generator, as long as it
is usable by all browsers equally. For this reason I use PHP for now.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) [mailto:jmcqk6@umkc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:16 AM
To: kclug@kclug.org
Subject: Test Hosting Reccomendation

Hello All.

 

This post is concerning ASP.NET hosting on Linux.  There is a service out there:

 

http://www.monoforge.com/

 

I have a simple application running on my space.  Here is an example of the power of this setup.

 

I developed my solution on Windows XP using Visual Studio 2003 .NET.  I compiled it on windows using the Microsoft .NET C# compiler.  Then I simply copied my files over using an FTP client and it ran, on Linux, without recompilation.  It has a MySQL backend.  When I first uploaded my app, the MySQL connector was not installed on the server machine.  So I simply copied the dll into the execution directory ( bin/ ) and my custom app found it and used it automatically – problem solved.

 

The hosting is free for the moment, because this is currently a beta test.  Once it goes live, beta testers will get some money off the final product.  If nothing else, this is great for experimenting with.

 

Have fun!

Josh