Tight on budget? ActiveHost.com has a whole line of all-in-one ASP.NET web hosting with prices that won't hurt your budget but still allow you to do things that hosting costing hundreds or thousands can. The New York-based company has been offering Microsoft web hosting services since 1997 under the domain name NTWebHosting.com and in August 2000, the company officially changed its name to ActiveHost Corporation.

ActiveHost fully owns and operates its internal network and systems in Albany, New York and the company claims its fully switched Lan is "on net" to the Internet backbone, with multiple redundant OC-3 fiberoptic connections to major backbone providers such as Qwest, Global Crossing, Sprint, and AT&T. 

One of its shared hosting plans is the Business Plan hosting service that costs only US$19.95 per month to get you started with ASP.NET hosting features. Powered by Microsoft 2000 Windows server, this hosting plan caught our attention because it comes with 30 preinstalled components, e-commerce StoreFront support, site statistics, MS Access and other Microsoft related kits. You also have a choice of installing SQL Server 2000 and Crystal Report software to complement your programming needs.

Its network architecture and ASP.NET hosting features are next to faultless, and although its software in a few hosting plans lacks the sophistication of some, ActiveHost.com is still one of the most active and dynamic web hosting companies on the web these days. Hence if you are looking for hardcore ASP.NET hosting, clicking to ActiveHost.com would make a worthwhile visit.