Hello all,

I wondered if anyone had got any web hosting recently - I'm wondering what the best deals are these days. I'm investigating for my brother in law, who has a site designed, not massive but needs to be reliable as it is for his business.

Can anyone reccomend anything?

I can't really comment on specific suppliers here as I supply premium business hosting (no downtime in 4 years apart from a move to a better datacentre) myself, but a couple of general bits of advice:
* there is no such thing as unlimited space or bandwidth/transfer. Also beware of "unmetered" deals
* cheap and reliable are direct opposites in the hosting industry

Good luck in your search.

Best,

Nathan

* cheap and reliable are direct opposites in the hosting industry

:rolleyes:

Shared hosting - £20 + VAT per year (100MB space, 1/2GB month traffic.)
(Linux/php)

Local datacentre - no reseller, >99% uptime over last 2 years (since new network connection), no call-centre, no bull...

Shared hosting - £20 + VAT per year (100MB space, 1/2GB month traffic.)
Lots of people would class that as expensive in this industry. That price point seems fairly reasonable for a personal site.

Hello all,

I wondered if anyone had got any web hosting recently - I'm wondering what the best deals are these days. I'm investigating for my brother in law, who has a site designed, not massive but needs to be reliable as it is for his business.

Can anyone reccomend anything?

I use macoman.co.uk for my hosting. Never had any problems.

Its £25 for the year, 500mb space, 7gb bandwidth, Mysql, php, 99.8% Uptime

Domains cost £8 a year for a .com and you can have 4 domains off the one account.

http://pages.google.com/-/about.html

gogles new webhosting package
free 100mb hosting

trouble is theres a waiting list, you need to have a gmail acount and i believe you can only host either 100 pages or 100 files

im on the waiting list :)

Hi,

I have a resellers hosting account, if your interested state what you would like at a reseasonable price and I can set you up immediately (if you have paypal). e-Mail me at support@hallamhosting.co.uk (note that my site isnt up yet so there wont be any info on that domain)

Hi,

I have a resellers hosting account, if your interested state what you would like at a reseasonable price and I can set you up immediately (if you have paypal). e-Mail me at support@hallamhosting.co.uk (note that my site isnt up yet so there wont be any info on that domain)

I take it your a reseller of removed.ext who should not state "Your customers won't know that you are reselling our hosting unless you tell them" - 'cause I found out (you should get onto TU and get them to sort out thier nameservers).

Ah well, just emailed them. Not hiding that i have a reseller account, but i'd rather customers come to me rather than them :P Cheers for pointing that out

I find the best deal the free ones.... http://en.SaveItFree.com is a good one, they support unlimited space, php/mysql, cgi, and emails, 5 ftp users, blah blah blah..

there's no popups, banners, or such-like... Just sign up and go..

Ah well, just emailed them. Not hiding that i have a reseller account, but i'd rather customers come to me rather than them :P Cheers for pointing that out


No problem.

Just so you know, I used the site checkdns.net, which reports on nameservers, IPs etc. The actual results (for your domain) are here (http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheck.aspx?domain=hallamhosting.co.uk&detailed=1) where you can see the nameserver issue for yourself:).

Another useful site is DNSStuff.com (http://www.dnsstuff.com/);).

m on the waiting list

You are, are you, dont forget your place on the waiting list....just behind me :D

they support unlimited space

No such thing:rolleyes:

I find the best deal the free ones.... http://en.SaveItFree.com is a good one, they support unlimited space, php/mysql, cgi, and emails, 5 ftp users, blah blah blah..

there's no popups, banners, or such-like... Just sign up and go..


shame the terms and conditions are in german, they may say you get unlimited space but it is unlikely because the amount of space on a server is absolute. Also it mentions nothing about bandwidth usage which im sure will be capped at a ridiculously small amount

I use bluehost.com. US firm, $96/year with free domain.....host up to 6 domains, 20 subdomains, 3000 POP3 accounts, 50 MySQL databases, PHP, Perl etc, 400Gb transfer/month, 15Gb disc space.

I'm happy with them after a few months there.

DO NOT use pay-as-you-host.com as they're utter ****e. A friend uses them....MySQL databases are supplied with root user only and no password, leaving you the only way to add a user is manually through phpMyAdmin so you have to know what you're doing. Even their premium package uses old versions PHP and MySQL, GDlib etc.

I use http://www.meirhosting.net/
I have used them for over 2 years with no problems, its about £70 for the year and i get 500 meg web space and 20 gig transfer every month :thumbsup:
You can also host unlimited web sites and domains

Hi, I use Blue Scorpion, They won't be beat on price and best of all there a sheffield company. and i've not had any problem with them at all.

Hi,

If you aint found your hosting yet, we do great deals on business packages,

if you would like to view our prices and plans visit www.bwbd-hosting.co.uk or otherwide email me with your needs to chris.fowkes@bwbd.org.

and i will see you right

Cheers

Chris

I find the best deal the free ones.... http://en.SaveItFree.com is a good one, they support unlimited space, php/mysql, cgi, and emails, 5 ftp users, blah blah blah..

there's no popups, banners, or such-like... Just sign up and go..

Linky no worky, damn, I'm looking for something just like that for my site :(