DiscountService VS Expeed – Best Windows ASP.NET Hosting Comparison in Australia

BestASPNETHostingReview.com | Best and cheap Windows ASP.NET hosting. DiscountService and Expeed are experienced Windows hosting providers in Australia. Many people are hard to say which one is a better option for cheap Windows hosting in Australia. To solve this confusing thing, we make this comprehensive comparison of this two companies’s Windows hosting services. Of course other important aspects are included, such as price, feature, loading speed and technical support. More analysis and detailed information are illustrated in the following explanation.

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Discountservice is a line of business under Macrodata Enterprise (ABN: 42 797 697 621), they offers a variety of cheap Australia ASP.NET hosting plans to fit any need. Their Windows hosting package is known for fast, reliable and it’s suitable for personal and small to medium businesses in Australia. DiscountService.com.au was established to cater to an under served market in the hosting industry, especially for customers who want excellent service. In the other hand.

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 Expeed is an Australian based hosting solutions provider that provide a variety of personal, business and corporate web solutions to entities of all sizes. Both of them provides many services, including Windows hosting, Linux hosting, email service and many more.

Cheap Windows ASP.NET Hosting in Australia – Pricing

DiscountService.biz provides 4 affordable Windows hosting plans, involving Beginner, Economy, Professional and Business whose prices are ranging from $2.99/mo to $20.99/mo with 35% OFF. At the same time, this web host offers 30-day full refund guarantee.

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In the other hand, Expeed offers various hosting plans: Small, Medium, Large, X-Large and XX-Large, starts from $10/month. Likewise, three billing cycles are offered, including month term, 6-month term and 12-month term.

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Cheap Windows ASP.NET Hosting in Australia – Features

Generally speaking, feature is the most important factor people might take into consideration when they choose best Windows hosting in Australia. Therefore, we select Professional plan of DiscountService and also Large plan of Expeed to make an in-depth comparison. We select this two plans because they have the same package price per month.

ProviderDiscountService.biz Expeed
Plan ComparisonEconomyBasic
Hosted SiteUnlimitedUnlimited
Disk Space5 GB4 GB
Bandwith50 GB4 GB
Windows Server2008 R2/2012/20162008R2/2012
Latest ASP.NET MVC
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MSSQL2008/2012/20142008/2012/2014
Email AccountsUnlimitedUnlimited
Control PanelPleskCustom
WebDeployYesYes
Full TrustYesYes
Isolated Application PoolYesNo
EF Core 1.1
YesNo

This table shows that DiscountService.com.au is a winner because of its superiority features. You can see that DiscountService.com.au provides you unlimited domains in all their Windows hosting plans. All version of ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and PHP are included too in their Windows hosting package. Not only that, DiscountService.com also support the latest Windows Server & MSSQL version, more bandwidth and disk space.  Regard to control panel, both DiscountService.com.au utilizes Plesk, the leading control panel for Windows hosting.

Cheap Windows ASP.NET Hosting in Australia – Uptime & Speed

DiscountService houses their data centers in Melbourne (Australia), London (UK), Washington (US) and Singapore. More importantly, all of their facilities are secured by redundant connections, handprint entry system and professional staffs who have to monitor the servers 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. In addition, this web host are capable of providing at least 99.9% uptime and fast loading speed.

Expeed claims to provide you 99.9% uptime  with SLA (Service Level Agreement). If they do not achieve and maintain the Service Levels for each Service as described in SLA, then you may be eligible for a credit towards a portion of your monthly service fees. The minimum “Monthly Uptime Percentage” for a Service is calculated by the following formula:

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If they fail to meet the minimum Monthly Uptime Percentage described above for a Service, you may submit a claim for a Service Credit. It seems that Expeed isn’t confident with 99.9 % uptime that they have promised. From the detail above, we can conclude that Expeed is less reliable than DiscountService.

Cheap Windows Hosting in Australia – Technical Support

Multiple contacting methods are allowed by DiscountService, including 24/7 online chat, email and tickets section for costumers. Their experienced and well-educated technical staffs are capable of solving any issues you come across. There is no extra charge for support in DiscountService. In the other hand, Expeed attaches great importance on their technical support by offering live chat and phone support (Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm), but it seems that this company encourages their users to ask for help via email because their live chat and phone support is not so efficient.

Conclusion

From the comparison and analysis before, we can make a summary that DiscountService is more recommendable for the webmasters who are seeking for Windows hosting in Australia because it can provide richer hosting features, reliable uptime and performance also excellent technical support compared with Expeed.