Free ASP.net 1.1 and 2.0 Hosting ?

[yildiz09]

Hi ,

I Need Urgent a ASP.Net 1.1 or 2.0 free hosting ,
after a 5 moth try period i can pay for it.

min 100 mb space .
unlimited file size
adds dont disturb me (if its a free host)
bandwich 5 gb / month its ok
MSSQL database its a plus but not a muss

 

[amz]

Good luck! That's going to be a very hard request to fill as ASP (and ASP.Net)
is basically a dead language for all practical purposes and most hosts got rid
of both of those several years ago.

The few remaining hosts that still support ASP are mostly paid hosts only and
even those few remaining under paid hosting are now disappearing as well.

It's worth a shot to post your request but don't expect too many replies.

 

[Maxim]

Good luck! That's going to be a very hard request to fill as ASP (and ASP.Net)
is basically a dead language for all practical purposes and most hosts got rid
of both of those several years ago.

The few remaining hosts that still support ASP are mostly paid hosts only and
even those few remaining under paid hosting are now disappearing as well.

It's worth a shot to post your request but don't expect too many replies.

First of all, ASP isn't a dying language. This is because all microsoft/windows systems that have IIS/PWS support ASP. And as long Microsoft isn't bankrupt, ASP doesn't dies.

But offcourse, (almost) nobody likes it. It isn't opensource, it is made by microsoft and most webhosts doesn't support it, BUT IT ISN'T DYING!

i really hate people saying this, because they have no idea what they're talking about

(btw I'm an Anti-microsoft guy, and i'm learning PHP, so I'm not a microsoft-freak )

 

[Decker]

Okay not dying - but being eaten alive by .NET (in MS campus terms) so it'll suffer the normal fate and fade away.

 

[amz]

First of all, ASP isn't a dying language

Maxim, have you stuck your head in the sand like an ostrich for
the last 3 or 4 years or something? :lol:

About 5 years ago, ASP was indeed the #1 web programming language
and it did not matter whether systems were Windows or Linux based
because both had ASP platforms available and nearly every host
supported ASP and just about every web program out there was
written either in ASP (preferred) or Perl.

Starting around 4 years ago though, ASP began to take a huge decline
and there were far less programmers supporting it in lieu of new more
popular and upcoming languages such as PHP, Java, Python, ColdFusion,
Perl, and Ruby with PHP ultimately taking over pretty much the entire
web development market for all practical purposes and continues to
be the reigning king of web programming.

Interest in ASP and ASP.NET dropped so far back then that most hosts finally
dropped ASP (roughly around 2 to 3 years ago) due to continued on going
lack of interest in the language anymore and with less than 15% of the
programming market still supporting ASP, there was no point for hosts to
offer it anymore to their customers.

In more recent times, many if not most of the MS Windows based hosts out
there have also followed suite and discontinued support for ASP and ASP.NET
even though that is actually ASP's native platform and the number of hosts
still supporting it remain very much a minority which continues to decrease in
size every single day as the few hosts still supporting it continue to
follow the rest of the industry and drop support for ASP.

Even Microsoft itself is leaning very strongly away from ASP and I have
had actual Microsoft support personnel officially advise myself and others
I know to use PHP for their web programming which should be a pretty
big wake up call for most who have any notion that ASP is still any kind
of real contender in the web programming world.

At this point in time there is really only 2 groups left supporting ASP ....

• Universities who are teaching old curriculum out of pace with the industry
• Businesses who paid a lot of money a few years ago to develop their
  applications in ASP and don't want to spend more money porting to another
  language and will try to support their current applications as long as possible

 

[monaghan]

ASP may no longer be the 1st choice for Windows scripting as many are now hosting VB or C# pages on ASP.Net, however, ASP will still be in place for quite some time as it does the job and many companies will not pay just to re-write a site to newer technology.

ASP may not get any major improvements, but support will still be about for quite some time to come.

Back to the original request...

We could offer you this for £1.95+vat/month, you're going to be hard pushed to find a free host or a paid one that will give you 5 months free.

 

[Trel]

Lets get these two straight here and be very clear about which one we're talking about.

ASP:

ASP is a virtually dead language in terms of mindshare for future investment. It will still be around for quite some time, but large new developments are mostly focused at different platforms that aren't quite so old.

It is still supported in Windows Server 2003 (to my knowledge) so support for it isn't impossible to find, but that still leaves you attempting to find free Windows based webhosting. In all honesty you are going to be hard pressed to find it and that is just due to the licensing cost.

ASP.net:

ASP.net is not quite so dead and is actually becoming more interesting as the .Net platform grows. Unlike ASP the ASP.net language is not shackled to Windows due to investment from Novell into the Mono project that is looking to port .Net to *nix systems.

At the moment I believe mod_mono is capable of running ASP.net 1.1 applications on Linux without many problems. ASP.net 2.0 is out of the question except for Windows which would put you in a similar situation to looking for ASP support.

ASP.net is hardly dead and is getting quite a bit of attention from Fortune 1000 businesses that seem to like the Windows platform.

You might want to look for providers that employ the Mono technology for ASP.net 1.0/1.1 support. ASP.net 2.0 support is still in development in Mono when I last checked.

Edit: Changed the wording of my post a bit to clarify what I meant.