discountasp.net / shared hosting for an ecommerce website [closed]

Question

Is there any disadvantage on using shared hosting in general (of discountasp.net) for an ecommerce website? security concerns or performance? The site is new and we dont expect many visitors right now, we have at least 30 products.

I am using my own shopping cart, user accounts (Membership provider), credit card processor (paypal), my own CMS, in C# ASP.NET 4.0 webforms and SQL Server 2008.

I dont save credit card information in the database, my system only create an account for users who buy something in the checkout process, and we need only processing power on some paypal apis only in checkout (very low cpu usage I guess).

My website is optimized client-side and server-side, I have the XSS security enabled of ASP and the AntiXSS library of Microsoft in all inputs/outputs (forms, cookies, http headers, query strings and even websevices), stored procedures, parameterized queries to avoid sql injection, SSL connections, anti spam, compiled and obfuscated dlls, encripted web.config, etc...

I am missing something? thanks, and sorry for my bad english.

Answer 1

Shared hosting for a new eComm site, yes I believe that is the way to go. In fact can’t recall many at all that stared out with a dedicated setup. Next step evolution might be a virtual private server VPS. Another good resource for shared is www.appliedi.net which is Microsoft only with shared, VPS and dedicated.

Glad to hear your client is not using hosted eComm  That is the worst mistake most make.

Answer 2

In my opinion, there is no disadvantages if you use shared hosting. About the security, you dont need to worry about that, the famous hosting provider would guarantee the security of your website. The problem for me is only one, the website often down. :) And I suggest you if you have many visitors later, you should use dedicated hosting.

I think discountasp is good provider that support asp.net, but if you need more reliable one, you can take a look asphostportal.com. They also only do Windows Platform, they support asp.net and also SQL.

Good luck.