ISP stopping support for Windows hosting - help!

ISP stopping support for Windows hosting - help!

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bigtone

Original Poster:

1,211 posts

286 months

Tuesday 14th September 2004
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I run a site for a colleague of mine which i've built using asp and vbscript, with an SQL database, all fairly straightforward stuff really. The host that has looked after this for the last couple of years on an NT/2000 box will, with effect from Friday, be turning off any NT hosting and moving to Linux/MySQL only...

Can anyone give any guidance as to the best way forward for this - is it worth reworking the whole thing to work with the new system (bearing in mind I have 3 evenings to do this!), or look for a new host of an MS based system?

Currently paying £399pa for 1Gb server space with SQL hosting. Any reccomendations of where else to go at all, or anyone here do suitable easily set up hosting? I think i'd prefer this route to recoding it all....

Cheers folks,

Tony

bigtone

Original Poster:

1,211 posts

286 months

Tuesday 14th September 2004
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Unfortunately 30 days warning was given, but due to emails playing up, me being away, and generally not realising how much of a change would be required to move to a new platform, 3 days is what i've got

bigtone

Original Poster:

1,211 posts

286 months

Wednesday 15th September 2004
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Many many thanks to all for help, advice and emails - i'm in the process of getting some stats on the current usage from the hosts, and will be in touch again when I have them. As I just designed and maintain the system, it's not actually me that pays for it, but the owner of the site (you never know, he might pay me for sorting it out for him!) but we can cross that bridge when we come to it.

Cheers again,

Tony