Hi all,

Does anyone know of "hosting evaluation services or magazines" that have a specific focus on helping people find hosting for DotNetNuke portals?  Could you post those hosting services magazines, or urls, here for helping people find excellence and superstars in DotNetNuke hosting partners?

Ideally they would do user surveys with this kind of criteria and get public input:
Hosting Evaluation Criteria For Candidate DotNetNuke Hosting

• Overall Score (1 to 100%)
• Subcategories of scoring (1 to 100%)
   Follows DotNetNuke Installation Standards (Spirit of cooperating with Core Team standards)
   Integrity and relationship management           (Honors mutually beneficial partnership contracts)
   Support                                                       (Friendliness)
   Reliability                                                     (Up-time and disaster recovery planning)
   Features                                                      (Empowers self management)
   Monthly price                                              (Simply unit cost on a monthly basis)
   Value                                                          (Price to feature ratio)
   Network                                                     (Size and recognition)
   End-user response time                               (Seconds between web screens)
   Industry                                                      (How many years have hosting experience do they have)

Thanks in advance for any URL's you can share!!!

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Kevin Donahoe
CEO, Architect, and .Net Developer
[email protected]
http://www.NewTechnologyAdvantage.com
"Your passion ... our new technology advantage !!!"

Hello all, check this page which is a start of this with several hosts and comments added:

DotNetNuke Hosting Providers

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Lee Sykes | DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke - www.dnncreative.com
Reviews, Tutorials, Interviews - 134 DotNetNuke videos. July Issue 11 out now!

Hey Lee,

Thanks for the links.  I found this graph on a generic evaluation site.
http://www.webhostmagazine.com/bg/DisplayReview.asp?revID=48 

I think it would be kind of cool to have a "module development contest" for a "performance evaluation dotnetnuke module".
It could run on dnn 3.2.0 and dnn 4.

Once developed it could be used on sites like yours, or the dotnetnuke site itself, to do public performance evaluations of specific hosting companies trying to "brand themselves" as DotNetNuke hosting superstars.

This proposed DNN module could be flexible enough to type in any criteria like above for "ideal DNN hoster qualities" and then let current and past clients type in their opinions.   It would of course be opinion based but sometimes that is most important.

Another dnn module could be developed for "fact based evalutions".   We could call it "response time and up time monitoring".   It could poll any site you tell it to and provide visual graphs of "actual end-user response times and web-site uptimes". 

Special Note: web-site uptime is far more important to customers than the overall server uptime.  For example, a server overall can be up 100% of the time but the actual customer websites may only be up 50%.  So customer website uptime fact based statistics would really be handy to know when doing hosting company evaluations.

So fact based statistical monitoring can be used in conjuntion with opinion based performance evaluations to really help people looking for quality DNN hosters make good decisions.

Thanks again for all your comments posted!

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Kevin Donahoe
CEO, Architect, and .Net Developer
[email protected]
http://www.NewTechnologyAdvantage.com
"Your passion ... our new technology advantage !!!"

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for adding your comments to the hosters. - Sounds like an interesting idea. - I especially find it important to check the actual uptime of a site. - I have found some hosts to have good DNN knowledge, good support etc., whereas the uptime isn't as high as it should be.

- Hosting comments and reviews need to be made over a period of time, eg. 6months so that you can get a really good oveview of performance. A site I use to track the uptime of my websites is here: http://host-tracker.com/

Would anyone be interested in developing a module?

If not, perhaps we could all collect our data from the host tracker reports and post the info in at:
http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/tabid/88/view/topics/forumid/7/Default.aspx

Cheers,

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Lee Sykes | DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke - www.dnncreative.com
Reviews, Tutorials, Interviews - 134 DotNetNuke videos. July Issue 11 out now!