Recently decided to go the distance and start paying for my web site to be hosted. My choice was busysites.net who seemed to promise so much for so little money (a reseller for fastsites I now realise)

Since that day I have had nothing but misery and frustration. It is repeatedly down, even when it's up ASP scripting generally doesn't work, a domain name I paid for, and note that the money has gone from my account, is still processing' and to cap it all off they are totally ignoring any emails I send them.

Please, please, please for the love of god, nobody ever go to busysites.net for your web hosting.

So anyway, I'm looking for a new host and would love a few words of advice from you experts out there who know more about this than me.

All I need is

ASP scripting
MS Access
no less than about 20MB space
And a bandwidth of 2GB or so
The usual email catch all and forwarders things.

And all I want is for it to be fairly fast and above all reliable. The reliable bit is important. Ah, and fairly cheap would be very nice. As in less than $75 or so a year.

It is not a lot I ask but after Busysites.net screwed me over in quite such a bad way I'm feeling kind of edgy about parting with my cash.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

IainT

What you are asking for is unrealistic I believe. Try readyhosting.com for $99 a year, but $75 is cutting it pretty thin.

Really?

I thought that what I was after was fairly standard.

So what's the difference between a $99 and $75 hosting service? Is it jus the reliability?

Sorry to be such a novice, but I actually thought I'd done some research into this.

I think you'll find that any company offering MSFT-based hosting for a price measured in $/year will be a bit lacking in the quality department. The simple fact is that Microsoft software is expensive -- and not particularly designed for flexibility.

Microsoft's server applications (IIS etc) are fine for a server handling a single website (and even better for a cluster of servers handling a single website), but when you add up the limited flexibilty and the license fees there really isn't left from your $75/$100/whatever per year.

<<EDIT>>

besides that you want to pay cheap why shouln't you get a cheap service?it only seems fair to me.

Take a look at www.adaptive.net. I've used them in the past for MS Frontpage/ASP/MS Access database hosting needs, and had no problems with them.

Good luck!
Rob.

Cheers people

Yove given me some food for thought

IainT