WinhostReviews of winhost.com

They were affordable and had an easy setup and transferring dns was easy.

I believe that Winhost is the best hosting provider but sometimes, the IIS service seems keep restarting

Although I've created and maintained websites since the mid 1980's, I am a relatively new Winhost customer. Every web hosting company that I've worked with over the years has their own way of operating, which makes it critical for them to have good tech support, good documentation of their server functions, and be responsive to inquiries. So far, Winhost has been one of the best in each of those areas. I am likely to move other sites that I manage to their company.

Great service.

The only reason I don't give 5 stars is because of the uncertainty of the future. I can only say this, at the current time, Winhost has great customer service; you ask a question, they will respond within the time they say they would. As for the sites, I never had any issues.

This is the second time that I've used Winhost to host a personal website. I find that their on-line control panel, knowledge base articles, and tech support to be very helpful and informative.

First, I have to say that I had to move my website from Arvixe, which has a very poor organization that exhibits almost non-existent support—Beware all potential users! They took my money over my protests (outside their warranty period) when my website's server was down for over six weeks! They did not respond to my many service ‘tickets’ to move my website to a working server. Their Chat service goes through the Phillipines, with folks who cannot possibly help with obviously poor management and their equipment issues, and I had no choice after two weeks of this but to then switch ISPs immediately. Now, my early experience with WinHost is far and above that of Arvixe, in how WinHost provided content and their responses to my questions. The reason I did not award five stars is that this organization is still relying on the expertise of people. What I mean by this is I'm looking for systems (in the dry, barren desert wasteland of internet services) that employ an automated "expert system" in response to technical or other service questions. For example, I recently sent a bit of code I used in my website's email routine and asked for WinHost’s help. The initial response during a Chat was inadequate! Now, I can certainly 'feel' for the folks manning their posts—possibly youngish, with maybe little skills in the way of investigative and failure-analysis training or techniques. But, less than an hour later, I got an email with an example ASP script to use and with only two minor tweaks to my existing code, I was immediately back in business! In a communication about three weeks earlier on a less-technical question, I was 'serviced' by someone who was having a bad day. This was evidenced by their terse responses and non-answers to some of my questions during the Chat session. Again, it's difficult to respond on a daily basis to problems that other people are having, through tough communication channels such as Chat or email, and I certainly sympathize with this daily ‘grind’. Many people have trouble communicating their problem and may not even know why they are seeing the results they are. They may be inarticulate, whether through writing in Chat or an email request, or when speaking with someone. A better method is a machine that asks a few questions and either sends the data / information they may be looking for, then ‘intelligently’ waits for a reply as to whether the issue was resolved. If the machine can’t answer their question, the individual is informed that a person will be in touch shortly. Much better, in my opinion!

We are running a MVC application on .NET 4.5 framework and everything is ok. It also supports many .Net applications giving the opportunity to host beta environments in the same hosting package.