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I really need some ASP.NET MVC CTP 4 hosting. Is anyone doing this? I can't believe there is no one willing to take my money just because it's in beta.

This is a customer requirement, so why is each host I ask just saying 'we can't do that'?

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You don't need to install the MVC Libraries into the GAC, so any .NET 3.5 Host can support ASP.NET MVC.

The only trick is that your routes will have to have .aspx in them to invoke ASP.NET, since they probably won't setup the HTTPHandler in IIS for you.

EDIT:

This link shows how to set it up on any shared host:

http://forums.asp.net/p/1239943/2294813.aspx

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@Jonathan - Ok sounds promising. Where in the route? At the controller like this?

routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}", 
            new {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = ""} 
            );

EDIT - Ok, yes like that. Thanks for the pointer Jonathan.

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I know you can do it on Mosso

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Many hosts will also set up a wildcard route to ASP.NET for you so you won't need the .aspx suffix.

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I have a freehosting on qsh.eu and I use ASP.NET MVC on my test apps, without any intervention of my hoster.

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There're 2 web hostings you can consider -

Arvixe and webhost4life!

With my experience, Arvixe is a cheaper asp.net web hosting and webhost4life is better for the client service support.

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Your link needs some fixin – Joe Philllips Feb 12 '10 at 2:02
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Webhost4life is crap for support! I am a customer. Keep away from them! lyndonreid.com/webhost4life-sucks and: webhost4lifecustomers.ning.com – cottsak May 29 '10 at 9:30
I've been with WH4L for many years and their tech support has always been excellent, for both Windows and Linux hosting. YMMV I guess. – kprobst Jun 28 '10 at 19:47
WH4L, great service, great prices, great speed. I left because made me lose money when they "migrate" their system, having my more than 20 websites down for 1 month without any solution... and after migration they stopped supporting smartmail which is great for shared accounts. If they support SQL Express I would consider go back, my current hosting is very slow!. – Nestor Feb 1 '11 at 6:10
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Webhost4life is terrible, they used to be great but recently switched over to some new platform and basically things have gone downhill fast. I am planning to move away from them as soon as I can.

I will be moving to http://www.arvixe.com/

UPDATE: I have moved to arvixe.com and so-far am very pleased. I did manage to get a response from webhost4life and they flat-out refused to setup the .NET wildcard mapping stating that *.mvc or *.aspx extensions would need to be used on their servers. Hope that helps, -fs

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Yes, thats a prob with WH4FL after they migrated their systems last year, look like they are not flexible any more. I'm using www.seekdotnet.com, they support mvc with extension-less url, support is great, but speed is getting very slow recently, I have more than 20 websites there, MVC specially slow, don't know if it's hosting or programming. Hope that helps. – Nestor Feb 1 '11 at 6:14
Definitely try out Arvixe, I'm have used their service and its pretty impressive. – cubski Apr 11 '12 at 15:04
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This is a bit of an older question, but these days: http://appharbor.com is a great host that has free options.

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