Shared Hosting Retiring Legacy ASP.NET Core Versions (April 2026)20 January 2026At Web Wiz, we are committed to providing a secure and high-performance hosting environment for your applications. To maintain these standards, we are announcing the formal removal of several "End of Life" (EOL) ASP.NET Core versions from our shared hosting servers. What is Changing? Effective April 2026, the following legacy .NET Core frameworks will be decommissioned and removed from our shared hosting service:
After this date, applications targeting these versions will no longer run on our infrastructure. Why is this happening? The primary driver for this removal is security. These versions have long passed their official support window from Microsoft, meaning they no longer receive critical security patches. Specifically, we have seen an increase in vulnerabilities related to CSV, Remove Code Execution (RCE) and Data Injection. Older frameworks often lack the modern, built-in sanitisation libraries required to defend against leaving the website and web server vulnerable to attacks. By moving to supported versions (such as ASP.NET 8, ASP.NET 9 or ASP.NET 10), you benefit from updated security, better encryption standards, and native protection against modern injection flaws. What You Need to Do To avoid any service interruption, please take the following steps before the April 2026 deadline:
What if you can't move to a newer ASP.NET version Option 1. Self-Contained Deployment A Self-Contained Deployment means that your website will include its own copy of the .NET runtime files inside its application folder, rather than relying on the shared versions installed on our server. This ensures your site continues to work exactly as it does now, even as we remove older, unsupported versions of .NET from the server for security reasons. For further information see; How to Publish Your Site as "Self-Contained" Option 2. Move to Dedicated Web Hosting If you are unable to update your application to a newer version of ASP.NET and are happy to accept the security risks, we can provide custom hosting plans that can support legacy applications and frameworks through our Dedicated Web Hosting, for more info see; Windows Dedicated Web Hosting Classic ASP and Classic ASP.NET is NOT Affected We want to emphasise that Classic ASP and Classic ASP.NET is NOT being removed at this time. If your application relies on the following, your service will remain active:
We appreciate your cooperation in keeping our platform—and your data—secure.
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