Self-contained vrs Framework-Dependent Deployment

Question

I was deploying an ASP.NET Core 2.2 application to my site, and I found out that my host only supports "Self-contained x86" applications.

Is there a difference in performance between Framework-Dependent x64 Deployment and Self-contained? There must be memory performance in x86 vrs x64 versions.

If I am using self-contained, what issues do I have to consider in my programming?: Memory problems? Disc space? connections? Speed or other undocumented problems. ie. x64 vrs x86 deployment.

Answer 1

Framework dependent: The server has DotNetCore framework libraries installed, you only deploy your own code and third party codes other than the framework.

Self-contained: You deploy all the code required to run your application including the framework. The server doesn't have to have the framework installed

for more details read the docs

[EDIT]

The memory consumption for the framework is not that much, if you just debug any simple web application using VS2019 or earlier you will see ~70MB of memory usage, and considering that even shared host services are allocating at least 128MB of instant memory it will be enough to run a simple app.

But you can't determine your minimum requirements with reference to the framework only. You should consider many things like;

• how large is your project
• how much resources and external libraries are in use
• how many instant visitors you are expecting
• and how efficient is your code...