SmarterASP Down

silverio wrote:

I have clients that are staying with them.  Their sites came up early Monday morning (Nov 11).  For one of them, there were some Admin pages that still had problems (you could see funny chars in the .cshtml pages), but I corrected those pages myself by restoring from a backup. Otherwise, the site looked fine and the DB was intact.

I'm not happy that their hosting was vulnerable to such an attack, and hope they will, as they say on their support page, "have experts working on a new system that will prevent such issue from occurring again in the future."   That said, I suspect that any hosting site could be vulnerable to such an attack, since it could be done by an insider, so I think that their ability to recover in under two days was pretty good.  (Although others many not have been so lucky).

jfulleton wrote:

HostGator is not so good. My opinion that find windows hosting specialize will be better. I would recommend Asphostportal for .net Core hosting. I have tried Azure too, but so costly, can't afford the fee. Formerly, I want to use Smarter, but I forgot why I didn't take them. If I signed up with them, maybe I will bang my head on the wall now.

Jones2018 wrote:

Don't use A2, they unable to recovery, please see https://windowswebhostingreview.com/a2hosting-infected-malware-looking-for-a2-asp-net-hosting-alternative/

We moving to www.bluehost.com

So far all good with them. SmarterAsp was good in past but in last few months all the time some issues.

Our website is still down with SmarterASP. I am looking for an alternative as well. We can't rely on a host promising things and not realising them.

I am however also really interested in getting Nop running on Linux (ubuntu 16.04 or 14.04).

If somebody has a step-by-step tutorial on doing this, I would be more than happy to view it! :)

foxnetsoft wrote:
We definitely recommend PeoplesHost because the pricing is good and their service is excellent.

https://www.peopleshost.com

I have used it. I didn't see any problems this week and support is very fast.
But I decided to leave  SmarterASP account too.

BrickHunters wrote:

Never try to run nopCommerce in Linux. Let me know the result. If you are still using Windows, then give Asphostportal.com a try. I use their service, good, never had big problems.