Re: Looking for asp.net hosting
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Web applications are typically designed, created, and tested in a development environment that is accessible only to the programmers working on the site. Once the application is ready to be released, it is moved to a production environment where the site can be accessed by anyone on the Internet. This deployment process introduces a number of challenges:
* A production environment must exist and be properly setup before an ASP.NET application can be deployed; moreover, the production environment must be kept up to date with the latest security patches.
* The correct set of markup files, code files, and support files must be copied from the development environment to the production environment. For data-driven applications, this might require copying the database schema and/or data, as well.
* There may be configuration differences between the two environments. The database connection string or e-mail server used in the development environment will likely be different than the production environment. What's more, the behavior of the application may depend on the environment. For example, when an error occurs in development the error's details can be displayed on screen, but when an error occurs in production, a user-friendly error page should be displayed instead, and the error details e-mailed to the developers.
To obviate the first challenge - setting up and maintaining a production environment - many individuals and businesses outsource their production environments to web hosting providers. A web hosting provider is a company that manages the production environment on your behalf. There are countless web host providers, each with varying prices and service levels; see the "Finding a Web Host Provider" section for tips on locating such a service provider.
This is the first in a series of tutorials that look at the steps involved in deploying an ASP.NET web application to a production environment managed by a web host provider. Over the course of these tutorials we will examine:
* What files need to be deployed to the web host provider.
* Tools for streamlining the deployment process.
* How to deploy a database.
* Tips for deploying a database that uses the SQL-based Membership and Roles provider, along with ways to mimic the Website Administration Tool in a production environment.
* Strategies for smoothly updating the database in production with changes made during development.
* Techniques for logging errors that occur on production, and ways to notify developers when an error occurs.
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