title: Host ServiceStack, MVC3 or MVC4 on mono or windows and what is the state of mono
body: <p>I am trying to decide what stack to use for a new web based backoffice system. We develop in C# and are going to use ServiceStack and/or ASP.NET MVC. Our customer prefers hosting on a Linux server, so this rules out MVC4 as this is not supported by Mono.</p>
  
  <p>Additionally we are worried about the state of the mono-fastcgi-server needed to run ASP.NET on Mono because of posts like this <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/330298/stopping-fastcgi-mono-server-gracefully-website-content-updating-with-no-need-t">https://serverfault.com/questions/330298/stopping-fastcgi-mono-server-gracefully-website-content-updating-with-no-need-t</a> and because we find it very hard to find relevant and up to date information about the state of the project. Therefore we hesitate to use MVC3 on mono as well.</p>
  
  <p>Right now we are considering using ServiceStack (with the new Razor views !) hosted in a console app behind and NGINX reverse proxy. This seems work fine and the ServiceStack documentation indicates that this is a viable solution. But what about Mono? Is it stable enough for serious production sites and services, is the garbage collector performant etc? Does anyone have up to date experience with hosting busy server apps (console apps using httplistener) on mono - if so, how does it work, would you recommend it? what version of mono did you use?</p>
  
  <p>Our alternative is to force our customer to accept a windows server, and then we will use service stack or perhaps mvc4 combined with service stack.</p>
  
  <p>So to sum up, what would you do/consider and what are your experiences with hosting servers apps on mono?</p>