Question about hosting site on Discount ASP.net

Hi,
I'd be afraid to try that on any Shared Host, 200M is begging for a Dedicated server.
DASP does however offer a 30 day money back guarantee.

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it seems a basic ASP.NET site doing nothing but starting up wants to use 11M private working set memory and 41M of committed memory. This is a new VS project created with the blank default page and nothing else added. So, without the ASP.NET site doing anything it is already at 41% of the total memory allowed. With my experience building ASP.NET applications, 100M is fairly limited and would only cover very basic sites with a minimal number of users. The only thing I can think of is that the configuration of the garbage collection and overall heap allocation is being managed differently in a shared environment.

 

I used discount asp.net 9 years ago and it went well. I'd like to try it again with the Syrinx CS system, which is C# ASP.NET. I' not sure if the standard discount ASP.NET hosting site will support this environment.

It needs SQL Server, though it will run with MSDE or express too.

When I run the site on my dev box, task manager shows it can use from a min of 80M of ram upwards to 200M of ram depending on what is happening.

Syrinx CS can be used to upload an AVI and it will convert it to an WMV and create thumbnails for you. It will also create various sizes of images from images that are uploaded. So you can upload a 5M image and it will create a thumbnail, medium, etc. These tasks use memory and CPU.

Syrinx CS is also a blog, forum and CMS type system, so it heavily uses the DB. This is something I've read in other threads that can cause problems in DASP.

I've read in other threads about a 100M limit on the sites. How does this number compare to what you see in task manager? What happens when it runs out of memory?

Is there a way to try to use a DASP site and it if didnt work with the Syrinx CS product to be able to back off and not have to pay for the whole year? At over $200, I would be disappointed if it didnt work and I had a DASP site I couldnt really use.