Compare ASP.NET Hosting Providers

Microsoft's Web Hosting Gallery has a neat tool to let you search for hosting providers based on parameters like type of server (shared, dedicated, virtual server) cost, technologies supported (Frameworks, Databases, Publishing protocols), storage, number of SQL Databases, number of e-mail accounts, bandwidth per month, support, uptime.

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Tips on ASP.NET Hosting & Deployment

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Types of ASP.NET MVC View Engines

A view engine provides Controllers with the ability to translate views into HTML. There are multiple reasons why you may choose one view engine over another. Here is a list of different types of ASP.NET MVC View Engines, the first two are available with ASP.NET MVC 3 -

• WebForms /ASPX – classic ASP.NET MVC views


• Razor (CSHTML)


• Spark


• NHAML -  (pronounced enamel) is a pure .NET implementation of the popular Rails Haml view engine.


• NVelocity 


• Brail

It is possible to use multiple view engines in the same project

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ASP.NET MVC View Engine Comparison
Spark and NHaml - Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines

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ASP.NET MVC Usage Trends

As per the BuiltWith website, there are 34,183 websites using ASP.NET MVC and among them, 1,840 websites are within the top million most visited sites on the internet.

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Large sites that run on ASP.NET

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