ASP.NET Hosting

Our ASP.NET hosting service is deployed on Microsoft Azure's global cloud infrastructure, running on the native Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition operating system. Servers come with .NET Framework 4.8 pre-installed, guaranteeing full support for applications built on ASP.NET 4.8, 4.7.2, 4.6.x, and 4.5.x.

This combination provides the maximum stability and scalability of Azure, ensuring that your projects (both modern and legacy apps) run with peak performance in a native Microsoft environment.

We provide the market-leading control panel: Plesk Obsidian. It is fully optimized for Windows Server environments and allows you to manage everything through an intuitive web interface. Its key features for developers include:

• .NET Version Management: Easily switch or verify your application's compatibility between ASP.NET 4.5 and 4.8 with just a few clicks from the dashboard.
• Full SQL Server Management: Create databases, manage users, execute scripts, and import SQL Server backups directly from the built-in web tool.
• One-Click Free SSL Installation: Secure your website and data connections by issuing free SSL certificates automatically.
• Advanced File Manager: Upload your deployment files, edit your web.config in real time, or manage folder permissions without needing an FTP client.

We offer multiple flexible options so you can deploy your projects using the workflow that best fits your daily routine:

• Visual Studio Web Deploy: The highly recommended option. Publish changes to your application with a single click directly from Visual Studio, automating file uploads and IIS configuration.
• Secure FTP / FTPS: Upload your publish files the traditional way using clients like FileZilla, ensuring an encrypted and secure transfer to your server.
• Git CI/CD Automation: Thanks to the native Git extension in Plesk, you can automate your deployments. Just run a git push to your repository (GitHub, GitLab, or local) and your site will update automatically.
• Other Compatible IDEs: If you do not use classic Visual Studio, you can seamlessly deploy your compiled projects using built-in deployment tools in environments like VS Code or JetBrains Rider.

Yes. Our Windows Server ASP.NET Hosting plans run in Full Trust mode by default, guaranteeing maximum application compatibility without compromising server security.

100% Isolated and Secure Environment with Plesk

We know that security is a top priority in shared hosting. Therefore, through our Plesk panel integration, your application operates under a strict perimeter isolation model:

- Dedicated Application Pools: Plesk assigns each website its own isolated memory process (w3wp.exe). Whatever happens on other sites on the server will never affect yours.

- Unique User Identities: Your account runs under independent Windows credentials created by Plesk. Strict NTFS permissions absolutely prevent other server users from accessing your files or code.

- Resource Monitoring: The IIS server controls CPU and RAM usage based on the resources allocated to your hosting account via Plesk. This prevents any third-party resource abuse from overloading the shared node.

By ensuring this isolation at the operating system level, the runtime environment (.NET Framework CLR) can safely grant broad permissions to your code. This allows you to:

- Avoid SecurityException Errors: Your libraries (.dll) can natively perform advanced tasks such as generating PDF reports, processing images, or connecting to external APIs.

- "Bin-Deploy" Support: You only need to upload your DLLs to your application's /bin folder via Plesk File Manager or FTP. The IIS server will recognize them automatically.

- .NET Framework 4.8 Compatibility: Your code runs in a native Windows Server environment, leveraging the stability of the latest classic Framework version.

- Native SQL Server Connection: Use official drivers to connect your application to our Plesk-managed databases, achieving fast and secure transactions.

Yes, absolutely. By providing a Windows Server IIS environment with Full Trust, you have complete freedom to modify and customize your application's web.config file without server-side restrictions.

Through your web.config, you can manage advanced settings such as:

• URL Rewrite Rules: Force HTTPS using your free SSL or create SEO-friendly URLs.
• Connection Strings: Configure direct access to your SQL Server databases.
• Upload Limits: Expand the maximum allowed file size (maxRequestLength).
• Custom Errors: Define your own custom pages for 404 or 500 errors (customErrors).
• Modules and Handlers: Register custom C# or VB.NET components.

Yes, our servers are updated with the SAP Crystal Reports Runtime for Visual Studio (Service Pack 39). This is the latest and most stable version, specifically designed to run smoothly in shared Windows Server and IIS environments, offering full compatibility with ASP.NET 4.8, 4.7.2, 4.6.x, and 4.5.x. To ensure your reports load correctly, please keep the following in mind:

• Important Local Compilation: To prevent version mismatch errors, it is highly recommended that you develop and compile your application locally using Crystal Reports Service Pack 39 in Visual Studio.
• Required Support Files: On our Windows hosting service, you must include the aspnet_client folder in the root of your website. This allows the viewer (CrystalReportViewer) to load styles, images, and interactive buttons correctly without requiring global server permissions.

Our ASP.NET hosting plans come equipped with SQL Server 2022 technology, Microsoft's most recent and efficient version. To ensure a seamless migration of existing projects, we maintain full backward compatibility with previous versions such as SQL Server 2019, 2017, 2014, and 2012.

For agile administration, we include the Plesk control panel, which allows you to manage your databases from an intuitive web interface. From this dashboard, you will be able to:

• Manage Databases: Create, edit, and import SQL Server databases in seconds.
• Configure Backups: Schedule automated backups on a regular basis (daily or weekly) to protect your information.
• Security: Implement additional layers of protection like data encryption and role-based restricted access.

Yes, absolutely. You can manage your databases directly from your computer using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or any other MSSQL database management tool compatible with external connections.

Yes, by providing an IIS Full Trust environment, you can use Entity Framework 6 (EF6) without any security restrictions to map your data models and execute queries directly on your SQL Server databases.

Yes, of course. The use of ADO.NET is fully supported and native on our servers. This guarantees the fastest and most direct performance to interact with and execute stored procedures in your SQL Server databases.

Yes, absolutely! Since it is a lightweight Micro-ORM that runs on your application's side, Dapper is 100% compatible and works flawlessly to perform ultra-fast queries on your SQL Server databases.

Yes, our servers feature MariaDB installed by default. As a database engine developed by the original creators of MySQL, it offers full compatibility (drop-in replacement) with MySQL.

This means you can host your databases, execute your scripts, and connect your applications designed for MySQL without making any changes to your code, enjoying excellent performance straight from your Plesk panel.