This week we were  at the Interprise Suite and AspDotNetStoreFront Business Solutions   Conference which was held in El Segundo California.

As featured asp.net hoster and a Microsoft Gold partner our role at the event was to to educate developers on the different aspects and environments of windows hosting.

A good is example is why robust e-commerce applications such as AspDotNetStoreFront will not run efficiently in a discount asp.net type hosting environment.  Oddly enough  I had a customer call a few weeks prior to the event and mention that he kept getting "kicked" out of the back-end part of his AspDotNetStoreFront Store. It didn't take me long to come up with a logical explanation as it was clear enough that this person's host was obviously capping his application.  This was being done at such a restriction that it was forced to constantly recycle.  AspDotNetStoreFront only consumes about 120 MB of RAM upon compiling on the web server but as the store's concurrent connections increase the worker process memory utilization rises and thus cases it to recycle.

This is why it is important to choose a host that can grow as your e-business demand grows. There really is no necessity in migrating to a dedicated environment as there should be plenty of options for your application at the shared hosting environment. Here is a great a example and a great plan we offer. Our VS-3 account aka Advanced Hosting  or Semi-dedicated Hosting is operated under the same hardware as the rest of our hosting plans. However, we limit these server to only 25 sites. I am not trying to mislead you in the sense that when the time has come for a dedicated server you must meet those needs.

This is one of the many topics we discussed regarding hosting in our keynote.  If you wish to download the full powerboat presentation, you can do so here.

I also went on and spoke about IIS7 and some of it's new key features. That presentation may be found here.

Here are some conference pictures:

Jess Coburn, CEO (left), and Carlos Caneja, CTO (right)-- preparing for their keynote on hosting essentials.

 Jess Coburn, CEO of Appliedi.net along with Robert Anderson, CEO of AspDotNetStoreFront, and Carlos Caneja, CTO of Appliedi.net as the first day was wrapping up.

If you are an existing AspDotNetStoreFront Customer you may have spoken with the guy in the middle-- Dan Van Kuren, VP of Customer support at AspDotNetStoreFront.