Umbraco on cheap web hosting

So I had a friend who runs a landscape gardening business, and wanted a website to showcase their work-but it needed to be on a budget.

Umbraco put to work here? Yes, the answer is-after a bit of wrestling.

He had already a domain name, so we just bought the regular hosting package from TSOHost (www.tsohost.com/product/Web hosting) at £ 2.99 per month, or £ 34.99 a year.

That buys you the option to run up to 4 websites support ASP.NET 4 and uses MySQL as the backend database (each site can also have multiple domain "aka" pointed at it, so if you're running a multi-site Umbraco installation, you can support more or less as many domains as you want).

Basically the install process was a bit of a nightmare (I chose 4.11.4, later versions may have problems with case sensitivity for MySQL database table names when running on Linux), but I got there in the end.  You must make sure you use the CHMOD (via FTP) to "write" permissions on the appropriate folders. And I had to use the control panel in the cloud to change the application pool to the "isolated" position.  I also noticed these issues:
During installation, you may need to manually recover the app if you notice any odd behavior between the installation steps.When you start working with Umbraco, you may need to recover the app after a change to a template/masterpageI also found that when changing content and publishing, it wasn't showing on the front end until ... you guessed it ... the application pool manually recovered.However, I managed to fix this by changing the setting to "True" in the config/config: umbracosettings.
        True
When the place starts only after a period of inactivity, the app pool starting may take a few seconds, but once up and running, everything seems pretty impressive ... especially for £ 35 per year.  Now all I have to do is finish off the site! Had my first problem today, which was solved effectively by Tsohosts support team within an hour.  Umbracos built-in Url Rewriting does not work (Yes, I know that I blogged about it is unstable, but I just needed a rule to rewrite/sitemap.xml to/sitemap/).

Activate the Umbraco's Url Rewriting, you need to go to the Windows configuration options for your Web site in the cloud, the dashboard, look at the .Net Version page and tick the box next to "Wildcard map for ASP .NET '.

iPage Reviews: Get $10 Cashback Now