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I've been trying for weeks to get a Mono environment that will host an MVC4 application (minus async/await). Any suggestions?

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I've got a buildpack working for running ASP.NET apps (including MVC, and also straight-up .NET apps) on Heroku, running on Mono and Linux: http://friism.com/running-net-on-heroku

You can even experiment with the new OWIN/Katana stuff if you like: http://friism.com/running-owin-katana-apps-on-heroku

That's really cool.

What surprises me more as an appharbor customer though, is that you've moved to Heroku! I must have missed that news...

I haven't tried MVC4 yet, I was waiting for async support in Mono.

Personally I run everything on a VPS, because I'm not worried about scale. If I was running something larger I'd probably go with Azure.

Async support is available in Mono since Mono 3.0: http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_3.0 (ctrl-f for "async")

Did you try with Digital Ocean ?

can't do Select Into in Azure.

So run SQL Server in a VM. Or MySQL. Or PostreSQL. Or whatever.

Even with the new dedicated Azure SQL Always-On instances?

i'll check.

After some googling and stackoverflowing and msdning, I think any version of SQL on azure does _not_ support "select into". I also found a request to have that added, and in January of 2013, it was closed as "won't do". ( see https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/776... )

Have you seen this? http://blog.erikd.org/2013/03/17/run-asp-dot-net-mvc4-on-ubu...

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