Solved Need and IIS based hosting option aside from Azure
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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 toc#.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?
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@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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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.
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@JaredBusch Where I've been forced to have hosted Windows, I normally use Viviotech.net.
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@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.
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@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.
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@JaredBusch We use Liquidweb. We like them.
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@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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