   Solid WIN SERVER based hosting company?
  Hellow fellow gamedevers,I'm wondering if any of you know of a solid windows server hosting company.I know there have been quite a few threads over the years on hosting but most of them were on inexpensive or linux based hosting.I want to start a tiny ecommerce website and eventually evolve it into a company if things go well. I'm doing .net 4 development at work and definately want to stick to that for this website (Raw &#106avascript and web services + alternative silverlight version exposed and WPF 4 for backoffice) so the choice of windows based hosting is pretty clear cut and the need for root access to install .net 4 / sql 2008 R2 also is.What i'm looking for is:- Windows server hosting company with root access (preferably windows server 2008 R2)- Preferably based in europe or distributed in europe (planning to service only french customers in a first phase, i don't mind a 100ms added overhead but no crappy provider with 600ms delay for europe or such)- Big bonus if it allows some kind of shared server at lower cost and easy migration to dedicated servers so i can start out small- Reasonably priced (price itself isn't an issue, but price/quality ratio must be there)- No downtime, i feel the 3 or so hours we get yearly at work is already a lot.- Preferably no forced management of the os & security updates and such, i don't want any management, all i'm looking for by having a provider is to not own the hardware , not need the net connection and not have the server noise in my room nothing more, i want to handle all of the software side production and development issues.- Timely support (fast reactions when the server is physically down or unadministrable from the outside)Now i'm not exactly expecting to find all that but those are my key points , if you know of any that are decents on all/most of it (as i said , even at companies prices so feel free to suggest your company's hosting if it's good) then i'd be glad to hear about it.   
  You could try Web Fusion, had nothing but excellent experience with them when I used them :)   ;  What's your monthly budget for hosting?   ;Quote:Original post by AntheusWhat's your monthly budget for hosting?no budget but needs to be worth it.I don't know what the rates are but if there's something that fits my starting need (everything i listed without being a dedicated server) then i guess 200ish? but if it's much less all the merrier and if it's more i can cope. Really there's no set budget but i want a no hassle, as-if-it-was-mine os platform that just lets me remote desktop and handle it as if i was on my own server and is win 2008 R2. I don't want the company to handle my domains or anything extra.   ;Quote:Original post by NewBreedYou could try Web Fusion, had nothing but excellent experience with them when I used them :)This sounds like it could have fit the bill however their VPN hosting doesn't indicate if what version of windows you get (2003 or 2008 i assume since that's the choice offered in their dedicated hosting) and i'm looking for 2008 R2 preferably. Also i'm not sure how much i can install since they give a list of installed applications and say we can install everything, do you know if that means we can't pick things not to be installed? I'm really just looking for a bare win 2K8 R2 install with nothing but an account with a remote desktop access on it.   ;  I used Rackspace before. I got a dedicated server for £350pcm with the best support I've ever seen.No extra hidden charges either for traffic usage, if you start to head towards your maximum you just speak to your account manager and work a deal into increasing it.Rackspace are quite expensive though, and I'm sure someone will come along and recommend a cheaper alternative. However I think they're second-to-none if you're happy to pay the money.   