HostForLIFE.eu is Microsoft No #1 Recommended Windows and ASP.NET Spotlight Hosting Partner in Europe.

Microsoft presents this award to HostForLIFE.eu for the ability to support the latest Microsoft and ASP.NET technology, such as: WebMatrix, WebDeploy, Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET 5 / ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC 6.0/5.2, Silverlight 5 and Visual Studio Lightswitch. For more information, please click here

Who is WinHost

Established in 2000, WinHost offers professional ASP.NET  hosting service for small business at an affordable price of $3.95/mo, 20% off the regular price.

Besides, the low cost WinHost ASP.NET hosting packages come with a large number of competitive features, such as Windows 2012/2008 platform with IIS 8/IIS 7, Isolated Application Pool, 1-click ASP.NET  installer, large volume of disk space/bandwidth/data transfer, the latest versions of MySQL/MySQL, etc

HostFORLIFE vs WinHost Core 1.0 Hosting Pricing and Feature

HostForLIFE.eu offers 4 Plans asp.net hosting plan named Classic, Budget, Economy, and Business and most of clients start from their Classic. The prices of plans start from €3.00/month, €5.50/month, €8.00/month, and €11.00/month.

In other hand, There are three hosting packages available in WinHost including Basic, Max and Ultimate. Those solutions are regularly priced at $4.95/mo, $9.95/mo and $19.95/mo. At present, readers can get a 20% discount through this promotion link, and the discounted prices are starting at $3.95/mo, $7.95/mo and $15.95/mo respectively.

Both of them also offers 30 days money back guarantee if customers don’t satisfy with their services.

HostForLIFE vs WinHost ASP.NET Core 1.0 Hosting Features

HostForLIFE and WinHost include latest versions of Windows server, MSSQL, ASP.NET,  and some other advanced Microsoft technologies. However, there are more or less disparities existing between the two companies, which is elaborately introduced as follows.

In features, we know that HostForLIFE ASP.NET hosting offer more rich features than WinHost. HostForLIFE has provided newest ASP.NET Core 1.0 hosting, but WinHost still don’t support it.

HostForLIFE vs WinHost ASP.NET Core 1.0 Hosting Performance

HostForLIFE utilizes more than 8 data centers, featuring redundant power, diesel backup generators and multiple fiber trunks, to make sure the maximum connectivity rates. Locating data centers in Europe, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Singapore, US, India and newest Hongkong Data center, HostForLIFE guarantees a high uptime of 99.99% by utilizing fully redundant power supply and backup generators. In addition, the company guarantees 24/7 maintenance for all facilities and keeps a high level of security by equipping HVAC temperature control systems.

WinHost in other hand only has 2 data centers only. Based on our monitoring report and reviews, sometimes WinHost server often goes down and receive massive complaints from user.

Based on our server monitoring, we can guarantee that HostForLIFE has better performance than WinHost. It might caused that WinHost overload their server so the server speed is very slow. Our monitoring team has hosted websites on HostForLIFE and WinHost in past months and collected relevant statistics during test period. The result shows that HostForLIFE performs well both in speed and stability. The average response time of its servers is within 250 ms for HostForLIFE. WinHost consume almost 700 ms.

HostForLIFE vs WinHost ASP.NET Core 1.0 Hosting Customer Support

HostForLIFE offers 24/7 customer support via its support portal and email only. Users are suggested to give preference to the support portal.

However, for its clients, these channels are enough and effective. By support portal, you do not need to restate your identity and order history, which actually saves some time in the process of solving problem. Besides, the support team consists of many specialists in Windows hosting, and in that way they do not have to waste time in answering phone and confirming identity, which enables them to fix your problems in a more methodic way as soon as possible.

Besides, knowledge base and community forum are also available, which is practical and helpful for developers especially for newbies, because almost all FAQs can be solved in the simplest way.

WinHost support team can be contacted through 24×7 live chat and email methods. The most effective Live Chat is available between 5 a.m. to midnight MST. Usually, support staffs will help solve customers’ issues timely. We still cannot ensure whether WinHost outsources its support service to other third-party or not.

For some common questions of its Windows hosting, customers can check out their support knowledgebase to find articles and solutions quickly.

Recommendation for European ASP.NET Core 1.0 Hosting

If we compare side by side, then HostForLIFE is better than WinHost. They have been in this business for many years and they have support the latest ASP.NET Core 1.0 hosting on their hosting environment.