Need and IIS based hosting option aside from Azure

JaredBusch

I have a client with an aging workload that is currently running in house on Server 2012 R2. I need to know what options I have other than Azure. Azure is, of course, a valid option. But I never default to thinking Azure is the best option for anything.

It is a IIS based web application written with the ASPX code behind using vb.net (they plan to convert to c#.net along with this migration) and connecting to a SQL Server 2014 database.

Moving the SQL instance to SQL Express on a Linux instance is easy enough. There is no complex usage of SQL functionality that requires it being on a fully licensed version of SQL Server. So because of this, I think I can find any of a large number of options for hosting the database portion.

The problem is the IIS web server. I cannot seem to find much of anything out there. Of course, I can buy a server and stick it in a colo, or rent a dedicated server in some colo and buy Windows licensing. But I was expecting to find some kind of reliable IIS hosting other than Azure. Is there nothing any more?

JaredBusch

@flaxking said in Need and IIS based hosting option aside from Azure:

they could rewrite enough to upgrade to the latest .Net and not have to run on Windows.

And confirmed. They are updating to ASP.Net Core 7

So they can run everything pretty much anywhere. Time to test out Kestrel and YARP it seems.

flaxking

Well it looks like EKS and GKE support Windows nodes, so you could deploy it as a container there, but then you're paying for a whole cluster. Or they could rewrite enough to upgrade to the latest .Net and not have to run on Windows.

travisdh1

@JaredBusch Where I've been forced to have hosted Windows, I normally use Viviotech.net.

JaredBusch

@flaxking said in Need and IIS based hosting option aside from Azure:

Or they could rewrite enough to upgrade to the latest .Net and not have to run on Windows.

I assume you mean to make it ASP.Net Core 6 or 7 compatible? I would assume the new code would be based on current stuff, but I will verify.

I did some looking over the weekend and see how MS says that is all fully linux runable now.

JaredBusch

@travisdh1 said in Need and IIS based hosting option aside from Azure:

@JaredBusch Where I've been forced to have hosted Windows, I normally use Viviotech.net.

I know I can do hosted Windows. I mentioned that in my last paragraph.

JasGot

@JaredBusch We use Liquidweb. We like them.

JaredBusch

@flaxking said in Need and IIS based hosting option aside from Azure:

they could rewrite enough to upgrade to the latest .Net and not have to run on Windows.

And confirmed. They are updating to ASP.Net Core 7

So they can run everything pretty much anywhere. Time to test out Kestrel and YARP it seems.

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