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I have been testing the site on the hosting server and over the past couple of days, I've noticed a lot of server down time. I emailed them yesterday and they told me the server that hosts my site...
"has had 4 IIS restart by our automatic batch. This is due to not overload the server and in case of any problems from any website hosted, it restart IIS also to avoid a long downtime. Take note, each IIS restart takes about 1-2 minutes."
Is this normal? Also, tonight as I was testing the site, the server went down and it's been 55 minutes and the server is still down. Now I'm really questioning what I should do (we don't yet have the capital for our own server). Should I spend the money and purchase the "Premium Business Plan" from my hosting company? They told me that these servers are less populated so IIS restarts are less likely. The reason I choose this company is because they had cheap rates and excellent support, which I guess really means nothing if your ecommerce site is down for an hour a day.
This isn't my first Web application with .NET, just my first ecommerce shopping cart application. All my other applications (many of them mission critical) have been performing as expected (or better). The problem isn't with .NET but with my hosting company. If I had my own server (or a dedicated server) I think .NET would be just as good as anything else.
I can't really confirm it because I'm not using asp.net stuff. As for it being unreliable, it might be true because my friend has tried a couple hosting services using asp and they all had problems.
