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RichDay

RichDay

RichDay

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Hi all!

I've got a present for all of you who enter the photo competition but I need somewhere to host it.

The hosting needs to be very cheap (preferably free - I'm skint) and needs to support ASP.net and ADO.

Any pointers?

Rich
 
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Heh, I've started to build a site that displays stats, charts etc from the info the judges generate every month. It's very, very basic at the moment but I'd like some feedback on it and see if it's worth developing a bit more.
 
RichDay said:
Heh, I've started to build a site that displays stats, charts etc from the info the judges generate every month. It's very, very basic at the moment but I'd like some feedback on it and see if it's worth developing a bit more.
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Cool :) I've been trying to get around to developing a gallery for all the entries, like the meet gallery kinda thing. Shame I use PHP or we could combine forces :)
 
cyKey said:
Cool :) I've been trying to get around to developing a gallery for all the entries, like the meet gallery kinda thing. Shame I use PHP or we could combine forces :)
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I've used PHP before but I'm quicker in ASP - I've managed to integrate charting now too:

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This is the first time i've heard of this! You should have said, as i'm an ASP.NET developer!

It looks like you've made a good start though :)
 
Have a look at www.awardspace.com. Their free hosting package gives you 200MB of space and 5GB of traffic. I don't know if it works with ASP.NET though and the max file size for any one file is 512KB.
 
Matt said:
This is the first time i've heard of this! You should have said, as i'm an ASP.NET developer!

It looks like you've made a good start though :)
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Heh, was bored and not feeling too great last night so I though't I'd have a crack at it. The .net framework is part of my job anyway so it wasn't too hard to hack stuff together (hack being the operative word. Need to go through the code and clean it up :D).
 
Nothing I can find. I'm using it at the moment for my photo gallery (in sig) and other than it being a little slow I can't find anything. I think they are using the free package to get you to upgrade to more space and usage when you run out.
 
Amp34 said:
Have a look at www.awardspace.com. Their free hosting package gives you 200MB of space and 5GB of traffic. I don't know if it works with ASP.NET though and the max file size for any one file is 512KB.
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Only PHP unfortunately. :(

Never mind. Would host the thing here (got static IP) but haven't really got a machine I can leave on all the time.
 
Hey guys,

Looks great that Rich Day. I was gonna do something similar a while back, but didn't find the time. You can host that on my web server if you want. I'll just need to figure out how to get you setup as a user etc. I'll look into it tonight.

You say you need ADO, are you using SQL Server 2000?
 
TerraS said:
Hey guys,

Looks great that Rich Day. I was gonna do something similar a while back, but didn't find the time. You can host that on my web server if you want. I'll just need to figure out how to get you setup as a user etc. I'll look into it tonight.

You say you need ADO, are you using SQL Server 2000?
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Great! That's really good of you :)

I'm not using SQL server - it's being fed from an Access database which I'm connecting to ad-hoc using OleDB. Not great I know but with the number of hits we're likely to get it shouldn't be an issue. All I really need to do is be able to register the folder as an application in IIS, have a temp folder for the charts (needs to be writeable by the ASPNET user) and be able to run a compiled charting DLL in the applications bin diectory. If any of that's a problem then don't worry too much - I'll keep searching for a cheap host :)
 
Sounds like we can do that. I've never used Access on my host before, so I'll need to research that bit.

I checked out user accounts and it doesn't seem to explain it too well, so if you could mail me the application directory then we can work it out from there. :)

Send me a 'debug' build first so we can iron out any issues. We'll use the 'release' build when we are happy. :)
 
cyKey said:
Cool :) I've been trying to get around to developing a gallery for all the entries, like the meet gallery kinda thing. Shame I use PHP or we could combine forces :)
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Me too, I got halfway through downloading all of the previous entries, but no further than that. Good to hear that some people are on the case
 
I checked my webspace. It seems we have to import the Access file into SQL Server before we can use it. It should be fine, but we'll need to change the standard ADO objects into SQL Server ones. :) But that's really straightforward.
 
TerraS said:
I checked my webspace. It seems we have to import the Access file into SQL Server before we can use it. It should be fine, but we'll need to change the standard ADO objects into SQL Server ones. :) But that's really straightforward.
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It should just run without being imported. If the server is running v1.1 of the framework then all the bits are there for it to work.

I'll email you over the code, it's all scripted - it was just easier that way - Visual Studio didn't seem to handle the data sources that well.

If it looks like a lot of work - I've got a temporary hosting solution that'll tide us over until I get a permanent home for it :)
 
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