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Comment by runesoerensen | Hacker News Reader

I can recommend trying AppHarbor - we're striving to deliver a better .NET and Windows cloud platform. Feel free to shoot me an email (rs@appharbor.com) if there's anything I can help with.

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AppHarbor is fantastic. I can't stress this enough. I've deployed three MVC3 applications on there already and they work effortlessly.

My workflow is:

1. Write code on dev machine.

2. hg push to BitBucket.

3. AppHarbor hook reads new push from BitBucket and compiled on their service.

Simple quick and easy deployment!

Once thing I wish they would offer is free domains like Heroku does. Hopefully this is a feature they enable in the future.

I've heard a lot of good things about AppHarbor. I still avoid .NET and Windows, but if I had to host .NET or Windows stuff somewhere, I'd go with App Harbor.

Its just too expensive, you cant host your custom domain name on free instance. And there's nothing between 0 and 50$. I'm waiting for prices of azure web sites, hopefully it would compare to shared hosting prices.

You can add custom hostnames to the free instance for $10/month

Can you explain to us why such basic functionality is so expensive?

Is there a legitimate technical reason for the cost, for example? Or is it subsidizing some other service? Or is it that high just because some people are foolish enough to pay that much for it?

The paid plans already include hosting on a custom domain. I find it surprising that they let you pay a la carte for custom domain support on the free plan as well.

good luck changing your email address ;)

I rely heavily on my spam filter :-)

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