>I found an inexpensive .NET shared host that provides access to file permissions:

http://webhost4life.com/

The price/offering ratio seems a bit too good to be true, but at least they've been recommended by a fellow over at ASP.NET. 'Course, that guy could always be a shill... ;-)

You will find a lot of people at asp.net recommending webhost4life.com because they make a commission on the referral.

A client of mine was going to go for it but they do not have any reporting statistics for web traffic.