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Have you ever find a free asp.net webhosting out there?

At least that offers some basic functionality to developers to start testing their applications and learning.

I tried a lot of the so-called free webhosting but they are like want you to just keep your website in HTML.

Do anyone use a good free / cheap webhosting provider before, please share.

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not software or hardware related – Jeff Atwood♦ Sep 2 at 9:07

closed as off-topic by Jeff Atwood♦ Sep 2 at 9:07
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For testing, basic functionality, and just getting started, I almost always recommend you choose to add a static IP to your internet service. Mine comes with one standard*. It really works surprisingly well, though you won't be able to serve for more than 100 people or so, but like you said, testing, basic functionality, and just learning.

Granted you need to learn a little to setup everything right, but there was a time a friend and I were the primary DNS host for our own domain, ran NetBSD 24x7 with 200+ days uptime, hosted a couple people's email, web and nethack accounts, and this was all on a Mac IIcx, which is all of 16MHz with 8MB of RAM and a NuBUS ethernet card. These days you could do so much more with even less cost. Imagine running a low power machine that's Atom based, and hosts ASP.NET... totally doable. Personally I'd recommend you actually install something "crazy" like the Mono's ASP.NET server on a unix (OpenSolaris or Linux or something) and develop using the mono-project's Mono for Visual Studio.

If you really only need to test and learn, there's always a virtual server you could be running for development only. VMWare player is free, and the mono-project offers an image.

*If you choose to sign up with speakeasy, which you really don't need to just to get a static IP, you can get a discount by saying dlamblin 180380 referred you.

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Wow, I didn't know one can actually set up a ASP.NET host for free, but apparently the Mono project allows for that (without violating the Microsoft EULA I mean). – Arjan van Bentem Jul 30 at 15:52
Yeah, Mono is pretty cool, listen to podcast #61 blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-61 to listen to it's creator talk. OR for a limited time if you hurry you can get Windows 7 Ultimate, on which you can run IIS7 and the ASP.NET stack free until about March 2009. I run it inside VMWare. technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd353205.aspx – dlamblin Jul 30 at 16:21
I assume that would be March 2010 ;-) But, I also assume that officially Microsoft won't allow usage for public web sites? (I have no need for such a server; just curious.) – Arjan van Bentem Jul 30 at 17:31
Yes March 2010. My mistake, too bad you can't edit comments. – dlamblin Jul 30 at 18:37
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http://www.christianasp.net/Hosting.aspx ( its has some special purpose )

http://www.webhostforasp.net/freeaspwebhosting.aspx

http://www.qsh.sk/en/asp-net-webhosting/Default

http://www.vwdhosting.net/

http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-asp-hosting.php

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those are just ads, they don't let you do anything that ASP.NET is good for! – martani_net Jul 30 at 15:24
What about webhostforasp? – joe Jul 30 at 15:50

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