Canadian Web Hosting Services - Netfirms $4.95 for your web site

I recently purchased a web hosting package from a Canadian Company based in Toronto, Ontario, which also has offices in the United States, and many counteries world wide, for my web site. I wanted to see what is it like to have an online presence for my small business but I have already tried several different web hosting companies such as BlueHost, PrimeHost, and many others. I was aware of the type of packages I can expect and none of them had the flexibility I needed for the type of design, coding and programming language I was using for my web site. Unfortunately, I was one of many small businesses that use two different platforms for programming. My struggle begins there.

It takes a lot of research to find a web host that will allow me to use my programming skills, ASP/ASP.net/2.0 without a struggle, considering I did not want to be limited to that either. You see, I not only have programs written in ASP.NET 1.2, I also have quite a bit of stuff written in PHP backed by a lot of data stored in MySQL format, so it was important that I can put it all up and have things functioning. Unfortunately, that is not easy, as it almost impossible to have a host that recognizes this need.

Unfornately, most web hosting companies offer you a) Linux/Unix based web hosting, or b) Windows IIS plus ASP.NET web hosting. This meant for me, I would have to convert all of my MySQLand PHP stuff to .NET Plus MS SQL or do exactly the opposite before I shop for a web host. You see the delimma?

Fortunately, after researching a web host service that combines both plattforms for one web site, like my small business site, I finally heard from a friend's friend, believe it or not, that there is only one company out there that can satisfy my need. The Name? the Internet's Best kept secret, NetFirms.

So, I quicly contacted through telephone, and spoke with their representatives. I realized that this company, to say the least, is probably one of the smartest group of people when it comes to web hosting, as they combined the two platforms, Linux and Windows. Confused? I think you need to check them out.