Cheap and Reliable Hosting :: Best SharePoint Hosting Review

Posted on May 28, 2015May 28, 2015 by Alexia Pamelov

IHostAzure.com | Cheap and Reliable SharePoint 2013 hosting. SharePoint was developed by Microsoft in 2001, a popular web application framework based on ASP.NET and MS SQL database. It is mainly used and good for intranet portals, social networks, extranet portals, enterprise search etc. because it is simple, secure and cost-effective to collaborate, organize and share. As a result, it helps increase productivity.

Here in this article, we will introduce a hosting provider best compatible with SharePoint, namely ASPHostPortal. This company not only meets SharePoint requirements on ASP.NET and MS SQL, but also provides SharePoint hosting for small firms as well as large organizations with different packages.

Who is ASPHostPortal.com ?

ASPHostPortal is an experienced web hosting provider, who has been in this industry. ASPHostPortal.com is Microsoft No #1 Recommended Windows and ASP.NET Spotlight Hosting Partner in United States. Microsoft presents this award to ASPHostPortal.com for ability to support the latest Microsoft and ASP.NET technology, such as: WebMatrix, WebDeploy, Visual Studio 2012, .NET 4.5.1/ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 5.0/4.0, Silverlight 5 and Visual Studio Lightswitch.

SharePoint Hosting Offers a Wide Range of Features

ASPHostPortal knows needs of customers deeply and it launches 2 SharePoint hosting packages: Standard is for small business and Advanced is aimed at large corporations and organizations. The basic features they include are as following:

1 SharePoint Websites
50 GB Bandwidth
5 GB Doc Storage Space
10 Number of User Accounts
SharePoint Designer 2013
Unlimited Email Accounts
30-Days Money Back Guarantee
starting from $9.99/mo

Moreover, ASPHostPortal SharePoint hosting is much helpful to improve work efficiency and increase productivity. Discussion boards provide team members with a secure place to communicate instead of interacting via emails one by one. Besides, ASPHostPortal SharePoint allows creating specific websites for specific projects and teams.

Beyond that, websites with ASPHostPortal SharePoint is customizable to fit customers’ different business needs. These features plus other features like rich free templates and mobile view, make ASPHostPortal SharePoint hosting best to have a try.

ASPHostPortal SharePoint Hosting Has Extraordinary Performance

With 8 data center in utilization throughout world, ASPHostPortal is one of a few companies, offering 100% uptime. The common main features of these datacenters include spacious room for servers, redundant power supplied by UPS and backup generators, optimum temperature controlled by cooling equipment and so on.

More than that, the network infrastructure in every datacenter is well designed to optimize speed. And ASPHostPortal makes use of the latest network hardware, like Brocade routers, BGP4, rock solid transfer switches etc. Backbone connection providers are famous and top as well, including Level 3, Zayo, Time Warner and much more.

In addition to regular datacenter security measures, such as 24/7 monitoring, ASPHostPortal SharePoint offers other security protection. For instance, webmasters could give access levels to maintain security.

ASPHostPortal Customer Services for SharePoint Hosting

ASPHostPortal has five main services: cloud hosting, shared hosting, reseller hosting, sharepoint and windows server. Each service has dedicated technicians who are professional in that part and responsible for supporting customers to improve support efficiency and customer satisfaction as well.

As for SharePoint hosting customers, they will get premium help as well via ticket and live chat. Both two are available to customers 24 hours a day including holidays. Or else, customers can call its general support. Anyway, it is easy to get ASPHostPortal support. Additionally, ASPHostPortal online SharePoint resources are easy to find to answer questions from customers.
ASPHostPortal is the Best SharePoint Hosting

To sum up, as a leader in SharePoint hosting, ASPHostPortal is indeed excellent and professional in every aspect. Features are rich, pricing is reasonable, performance is great and customer services are efficient. No matter which size business or organization websites are, ASPHostPortal SharePoint hosting is the best option
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Cheap And Reliable Hosting :: How Setup SharePoint 2013 On Windows Azure Part 2

Posted on January 23, 2015May 18, 2016 by Alexia Pamelov

Yesterday i had explains about how setup SharePoint 2013 on Windows Azure Part 1, today we will continue it step by step setup SharePoint on Windows Azure Part 2.

Install and Configure Domain Controller

In the last article we saw how to create the network components. In this article we will see how to install and configure the domain controller.

Create Domain Controller VM

Go to “New Virtual Machine” and from the “Gallery” choose “Windows Server 2012 DataCenter”. Select the size as medium to begin with as shown below.

Configuing Domain Controller

Once the Domain Controller is provisioned, click on the “Connect” button and RDP into the DC machine. Click on “Add Roles and Features” and follow the procedure as shown below. In the Server Roles section, choose “Active Directory Domain Services”.

Click on “Add Features” and then on the “Confirmation” tab click on “Install”. Once this is done you may be required to restart the server. Restart and again RDP into the DC Server. Near “Manage this server” click on the yellow triangle and click on “Promote to Domain Controller”.

Follow the steps below. Add a new Forest. Mention the domain name you wish.

You can ignore the following DNS Options error.

Change the paths if required of the ADDS Database, log and SYSVOL folders. If you have added extra external disks then this can point to them as well.

Once you click on “Install”, the prerequisites will be installed and your DC Server is ready to add users.

Add new user accounts to the domain

As in on-premise installation we will add 4 users to this domain

“sp_farm” to manage the SharePoint farm
“sp_farm_db” to have sysadmin rights on SQL Server instances.
“sp_install” to have domain administration rights needed for installing roles and features
“sqlservice” to have an identity that SQL instances can run as

sp_install user configuration

We will specifically take this user siince there are some extra steps required to configure this user. The other 3 users are simple user creations. From “Action” –> “New” –> “User”:

Add “sp_install” to the Domain Admin Group as shown below:

Go to “Domain” –> “Properties” –> “Security Tab” then click the “Advanced” button then select the “Pronciple” link then type “sp_install” as shown in the following procedure.

Select “Read All Properties” and “Create Computer Objects” as shown below.

In the next article we will see how to install and configure SQL Server for SharePoint Server 2013 on Windows Azure.

Best Recommended SharePoint 2013 Hosting

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Cheap And Reliable Hosting :: How to Setup SharePoint 2013 on Windows Azure Part 1

Posted on January 22, 2015May 18, 2016 by Alexia Pamelov

How To : Setup SharePoint 2013 Virtual machine on Windows Azure

IHostAzure.com| Cheap And Reliable Hosting. In this article I will explains step by step How to Setup SharePoint 2013 on Windows Azure.

I was very excited with my MSDN subscription on Windows Azure and wanted to quickly set up SharePoint Server 2013 on the Windows Azure infrastructure. I started by logging and entered my credentials and started with the screen as shown below.

Wrong way of provisioning SharePoint Server 2013 on Windows Azure

I see a SharePoint Server 2013 Trial image virtual machine in the Gallery and started directly provisioning the SharePoint Server thinking that a single standalone SharePoint Server 2013 will be provisioned.

But after the VM was provisioned and I attempted to launch the SharePoint Administrator as done on the premise of SharePoint Server 2013 installation, I soon realised that this template (VM image) is not meant for a single standalone SharePoint Server 2013 installation. I get the following message:

Correct way of provisioning SharePoint Server 2013 on Windows Azure

At the minimum, there are 4 steps and multiple sub-steps that need to be followed to properly provision SharePoint Server 2013 on Windows Azure. So the 3 steps are as follows:

Create and Configure Network components
Install and Configure Domain Controller
Install and Configure SQL Server
Install and Configure SharePoint Server 2013

In this article we will see the initial step details and in subsequent articles we will see the remaining steps.

Create and configure Network components

So the first step is to create and configure network components. At the minimum we will need the following network components:

One Virtual Private Network
One DNS Server
Three Subnets
One Windows Azure Storage Account

Create VPN

Click on the Network Services in the Windows Azure Manage portal and click on “New”. Enter the details such as Name and Region as shown below.

Create a DNS Server as shown below. Choose the IP as “10.0.0.4” since this is the static IP given to the DNS Server. Note: I realised this when I got an error to connect other servers to the domain.

Create SubNets

I have created 4 subnets below but a minimum of 3 is required for a small farm where AppSubnet and WebSubnet can be clubbed together. As the name suggests, we are using these for the Domain Controller, SQL Database, Application Server and Web Server roles.

Once all this is done, click on the “OK” tab and wait for a few minutes; your VPN will be created as shown below.

Create a storage account

After the network is ready, as shown below create a storage account. Give it a name and follow the wizard. Your storage account will be created.

In the next article we will see how to create and configure a domain controller.

Best Recommended SharePoint 2013 Hosting

ASPHostPortal.com
ASPHostPortal.com is Perfect, suitable hosting plan for a starter in SharePoint. ASPHostPortal the leading provider of Windows hosting and affordable SharePoint Hosting. ASPHostPortal proudly working to help grow the backbone of the Internet, the millions of individuals, families, micro-businesses, small business, and fledgling online businesses. ASPHostPortal has ability to support the latest Microsoft and ASP.NET technology, such as: WebMatrix, WebDeploy, Visual Studio 2015, .NET 5/ASP.NET 4.5.2, ASP.NET MVC 6.0/5.2, Silverlight 6 and Visual Studio Lightswitch, ASPHostPortal guarantees the highest quality product, top security, and unshakeable reliability, carefully chose high-quality servers, networking, and infrastructure equipment to ensure the utmost reliability.
HostForLIFE.eu
HostForLIFE.eu guarantees 99.9% uptime for their professional SharePoint hosting and actually implements the guarantee in practice. HostForLIFE.eu is the service are excellent and the features of the web hosting plan are even greater than many hosting. HostForLIFE.eu offer IT professionals more advanced features and the latest technology. Relibility, Stability and Performance of servers remain and TOP priority. Even basic service plans are equipped with standard service level agreements for 99.99% uptime. Advanced options raise the bar to 99.99%. HostForLIFE.eu revolutionized hosting with Plesk Control Panel, a Web-based interface that provides customers with 24×7 access to their server and site configuration tools.
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