Moving my hosting and the AppStore   Posted on 07. Oct, 2008 by Wim Haanstra in Personal stuff.

So… after a week of hard work, I am finally finishing up the move of my hosting. It took me some work to get everything to work, but it looks OK now.

I was at Bluehost, which was a great host for my PHP pages, but the server-side application of my iPhone application is completely written in C# (3.5), so I needed a new host. It took me a long time to find a good one. First I came accross GoDaddy.com, which seemed nice for it’s price and features. But as always… cheap isn’t the best hosting to get, especially when your iPhone application depends on it.

I completely installed my server app on that server, but in 4 days time my site went down over 12 times!! And exactly at the moment that Apple was first reviewing my application. So that sucked.

Now I am hosting my applications at MyDomain.com, where I also register most of my .com domains. The hosting is not very cheap, but also not very expensive (especially with the great euro-dollar conversion at the moment). Officially it only support .NET 2.0, but I found a way to actually make my C# 3.5/LINQ application run on it. I did this by copying my .NET framework DLL’s to the ‘bin’ directory of my application and pre-compiling my application, so that was a new thing to learn also.

About my app: it was reviewed by Apple today and I needed to remove the Apple wallpapers from my wallpaper server. Also there was a situation where the application would stay in an endless loop, when there was no internet connection via WiFi, GPRS and 3G. So I fixed those errors this evening and submitted my new version to the AppStore. Hope to get it approved soon .