Host company say's FrontPage is only a toy

[ZekeTheElder]

I have been told over and over by my hosting company aPlus.net that FrontPage
will not support a site over 100 Meg. My site is about 1 gig and the
extensions continually break on there server (IIS server).

Is this true? Do I need a new host? Any suggestions?

Regards........ Jim www.SETI.Net

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You need to break you site into smaller subwebs / subsites and then work on them and publish them
individually.

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Thomas A. Rowe
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[Ronx]

There is no limit to the size of web FrontPage will support, except
limits imposed by the hardware the website is hosted on. The network
connections between your PC and the server is also a factor - the
slower, the smaller the web site.

A dedicated server running on dual Xeon Duo processors with 20GB ram
should have no problems with a 1GB website. At the other extreme, any
site bigger than 1MB among 2000 sites sharing a server running on a
single 2GHz Centrino processor with 512MB ram will have problems.

If you haven't already done so, consider breaking the site into subwebs
- each subweb is effectively a separate website, and is therefore much
smaller for the server to handle.

A large website will usually give time out or parsing errors when
publishing or when editing live if the hardware is insufficient or
server loading is excessive, it is unusual for the extensions to break.

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

That attitude by server admins is the way that they deal with the fact that
they don't understand or properly use/ maintain the FrontPage extensions.
There's options to optimize them for size of site, etc.

don't believe everything your server guys tell you.

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[.._..]

Get a new host.

Though, depending on if you have lots of little files, or several large
files they could be partially correct.

If you are hosting lots of files, you will pretty much need to break the
site into sub webs as some FrontPage activities will "look" at each one...
which may cause your connection to time out.

If it's big files, (movies or whatever) then you could make a "file deposit"
as an FTP site, and link into that with the files in FrontPage.