[wplug] Web Hosting with Mono

[Bill Moran]

In response to DK <wplug at curlynoodle.com>:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I have been working on a new design for my company's website, using
> mostly PHP.  However, today during our monthly status meeting, our
> senior software developer recommended that we use ASP.Net.  His
> argument is that our company has three programmers (myself, him and
> another staff) familiar with the language, however only I have
> practical experience with Apache, PHP and MySQL.
> 
> While I would prefer continuing with the 100% open source solution, I
> cannot deny it would be nice to have some help to get the new design
> finished and then adequately maintained.
> 
> As a compromise, I thought we could use a web host that supports Mono
> (http://www.mono-project.com/) while still allowing us to use the
> MySQL database I have created.
> 
> Has anyone had experience with GrokThis (http://www.grokthis.net/) or
> another host that supports Mono?  Has anyone has experience, good or
> bad, using Mono?

Not in a web environment, but I've had good experience using Mono to
run Tomboy (which is a C# app).  And I've done some experimenting with
MS.NET <-> Mono with good success.

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Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com