Things to look for before you choose a Dotnetnuke hosting provider

Dotnetnuke hosting name is itself sufficient to trust but still there are some vitals that you must check before you go for a DNN hosting plan and provider. Irrespective of the nature of your website, be it personal hobby & family site or commercial web site or it is an extranet or intranet website or it is some E-commerce web, DNN provides easy to use interface and it is far more easier to have fully customizable application development environment. With this, you can tap the full potential of the website and customize it as per your needs.

There are certain things that you must check before you choose your Dotnetnuke hosting provider. Here is the check list. First, check whether the server security of the hosting provider fully supports the DNN features and whether it is using the latest version of DNN. Secondly, check and ask the hosting provider to give you a demo of the process to deploy a website. Check it if it is easy to use and that you are able to customize applications well. Specially check that it is easier to upload the DNN project and updating of the database connection is also easier.

Next, assess that the DNN hosting servers are high performing and ask the provider to give you some names of sites being hosted on the server. Go to those websites and check their performance using free or paid software easily available on the internet. See if the hosting provider gives your website a separate database (if it is also physically separate). Most importantly see if the servers are reliable and what is the average downtime report of an existing site or whether there were any severe outages and what were the reasons for it. Whether it was some hardware related outage or it was for maintenance purposes. If it was for maintenance then it is ok, if it was some other issue there is a question to be asked.

The biggest and in fact the foremost thing to consider is the price of the various plans. Do some homework and visit some websites of dnn hosting providers and do a quick comparison of the offerings per package. It is always good to go for a plan that offers a little more than what you presently need as you never know when you set out on a plan to expand your website. Last but not the least check out how well organized and responsive is their customer service. Get the number and make a call and assess an issue resolution in real time.