The latest ASP.NET released version is ASP.NET 4.6.1 and we are waiting the ASP.NET 5 (Core) to be resealed, as there is candidate release already. So, to in this terms to use the ASP.NET Core hosting you should have a VPS or dedicated server, and to use ASP.NET 4.6 you should have shared, VPS, or dedicated server. Bellow you will find the new features in ASP.NET 5 hosting and the new features in ASP.NET 4.6 hosting.

ASP.NET 5 hosting

– Ability to host on IIS or self-host in your own process – Built on .NET Core, which supports true side-by-side app versioning – Ships entirely as NuGet packages – Single aligned web stack for Web UI and Web APIs – Cloud-ready environment-based configuration – Build and run cross-platform ASP.NET apps on Windows, Mac and Linux – Open source and community focused

ASP.NET 4.6 Hosting

– Cryptography: Support for X509 certificates containing ECDSA; – ADO.NET improvements as always Encrypted support for hardware protected keys and improve MultiSubnetFailover connection behavior for AlwaysOn; – Windows Presentation Foundation includes a number of improvements and changes as improved performance, spell checking improvements and additional support for per-user custom dictionaries; – Windows Workflow Foundation: Transactions. The Transaction.EnlistPromotableSinglePhase method can now use a distributed transaction manager other than MSDTC to promote the transaction. – Native Image Generator (NGEN) PDBs. With Ngen PDBs, NGen can create a PDB that contains the IL-to-native mapping without a dependency on the IL PDB.

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