[VegaLA]

Hi all,
signed up with GoDaddy after doing a little research. ASP, good, Access database, excellent. Try to gel the two using Dreamweaver, well, works fine on my local network and with company webservers but not so on GoDaddy ! For the past week been trying to find a way around it and despite several ways from various people from other forums and contacting GoDaddy themselves the search is fruitless. Time to move on. So I am in search of a host that can provide a service that allows me to run my ASP pages on their site directly devloped from Dreamweaver !

Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks in advance,
Mitch...

[Hunch]

Originally Posted by VegaLA

Looking for the perfect Host

There ya go. No need to thank me.

[andyf]

Hey Mitch,
Can you give me your hosting requirements i may help you with 24x7 live support.

[herkalees]

Dreamweaver simply uses standard FTP - how is it that GoDaddy's servers had issues being connected to via regular old FTP?

Regardless, I always hear good things about mediatemple.com, asmallorange.com, wiredtree.com, segpub.com, jaguarpc.com

[VegaLA]

Hah, how is ole' Mr Stringfellow these days ? Last I heard he was touring exotic locations around the world with his latest girlfriend including his stomping ground of Yorkshire !!

Thanks Andy, well, to start with i'm looking for a place to host my site that will play nice with ASP files that have been generated by Dreamweaver and feeding data from an Access mdb, be it from my home pc or uploaded to the host. Of course if it is on the host I need a painless way up updating the data from my PC either via a secure webpage linked to that database or some other means. I don't want to have to upload an Access mdb every time I change data of course.

Herkalees, its not uploading thats the problem, its the code that is created by DreamWeaver, it does'nt play well with GoDaddy's account structure and their support is'nt very helpfull. GoDaddy have same sample ASP code that works but you can't import it into DW in order to work on and therefore useless.

Thanks for all your input !

Mitch...

[haku]

I don't really see how the code would work on another server if it doesn't work on theirs. I could be wrong of course, but as long as they support ASP, then I figure its probably a problem with your code more than their server.

[andyf]

@Mitch :
We do support ASP and (ASP.NET-2,3,3.5) on our Windows hosting plans with MS Access support, you can upload your files using FTP or Filemanager.

Please get back to us via our live chat facility if you have any further queries.

[freelancr]

They might be using something called Chillisoft ASP, this emulates what IIS does, but is cross platform. Sun Microsystems licence this software cheaper than Windows licence their server OS, obviously, so many hosts use that so they can run a LAMP stack from the same box.

But I don't think access databases work on a Linux server, besides you really should be using either MySQL or MS SQL as Access is very slow and not suited to multiple users accessing it at the same time, I think the maximum is about 50 connections.

Post up a link to where you uploaded your ASP website, and I should hopefully be able to tell you what server they are using. If the code works for you locally on IIS, then it should work on a host using IIS.

[Accurate]

Chillisoft is used on Linux for ASP users.

[VegaLA]

Hi all, found a solution to the problem, and it is a known bugbear with GoDaddy but this asp file resolves it:

<%
' FileName="Connection_ado_conn_string.htm"
' Type="ADO"
' DesigntimeType="ADO"
' HTTP="false"
' Catalog=""
' Schema=""
Dim MM_access_MySite_STRING
MM_access_MySite_STRING = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=d:hosting\MyAccount\access_db\MySite.mdb;Us er Id=;Password="
%>

Andy, i'm still interested so I have sent you a PM, hope to hear from you soon.

[andyf]

@VegaLA

Thanks i have replied to you.