Webspace Hosting Who's the best?

[rocks]

A few years ago, i bought several domains, and ran then via.. www.easyspace.co.uk at the time i had the domain registered witht them and leased web space from them. I still have the domains registered with them, but i think their webspace has got a little expensive of late.

I am looking for around 200mb of webspace, with CGI, pearl capability, front page extension compatibility would be nice too.

Can anyone reccomend any companies for cheap reliable hosting?

Cheers. rocks..

 

[richie]

www.web-mania.com

20 quid for 500 Meg and all you've asked for...

 

[Droopy Dick]

I am looking for around 200mb of webspace, with CGI, pearl capability, front page extension compatibility would be nice too.

Can anyone reccomend any companies for cheap reliable hosting?

Cheers. rocks..

I do hope that you're looking for PERL and not a round shiny semi-precious jewel.

 

[Steve]

Can anyone reccomend any companies for cheap reliable hosting?

Cheers. rocks..

www.fast2host.com

 

[Pthagonal]

beware cheap hosting

make sure your monthly bandwidth quota is decent..

check to see what price it is when u exceed your limit..

it can get very pricey..

a 500 meg hosting space site for 20 a month is no bloody use if it only gives 1 gig per month bandwidth allocation..

get as much as you can..

know what you are hosting.. and how 'heavy' your site will be

ie no big graphics and videp clips. that wil be downloaded over and over again..

find out what the serevr is based on.. unix or windows

unix is better.. impo

if there is extras.. see if there are costs to enable them..

be wary..

how many email accounts?
does it give free cgi suppport? (handy for forms and emails etc)
does it give you stats and data on hits
do they promote you on search engines etc?

where is it hosted..
exactly? us or europe?
what sort of connection do they have to the web? T1 ?

what happens if you want to close it.. are u tied into a 12 month contract?etc etc


just use your cop on and be wary..

but there are plenty of good hosting sites out there..

have a look at www.seanfitz.com goto 'resources' and check out the 'internet tools and stuff'..

some handy links there


regards

pthag

 

[Deleted Member I]

When I was looking to setup a website, a friend recommended 1&1.

They can found here

 

[richie]

Re: beware cheap hosting

make sure your monthly bandwidth quota is decent..

check to see what price it is when u exceed your limit..

it can get very pricey..

a 500 meg hosting space site for 20 a month is no bloody use if it only gives 1 gig per month bandwidth allocation..

get as much as you can..

know what you are hosting.. and how 'heavy' your site will be

ie no big graphics and videp clips. that wil be downloaded over and over again..

find out what the serevr is based on.. unix or windows

unix is better.. impo

if there is extras.. see if there are costs to enable them..

be wary..

how many email accounts?
does it give free cgi suppport? (handy for forms and emails etc)
does it give you stats and data on hits
do they promote you on search engines etc?

where is it hosted..
exactly? us or europe?
what sort of connection do they have to the web? T1 ?

what happens if you want to close it.. are u tied into a 12 month contract?etc etc


just use your cop on and be wary..

but there are plenty of good hosting sites out there..

have a look at www.seanfitz.com goto 'resources' and check out the 'internet tools and stuff'..

some handy links there


regards

pthag

It offers a lot more than 1 gigabyte.

 

[Paul G (BHT)]

When it come to Web hosting, there are many companies out there making a lot of false promises… you get what you pay for…

A quality service costs money but, at the end of the day, I suppose it all depends on how important your up time and site performance is to you…

 

[samwise]

Re: beware cheap hosting

make sure your monthly bandwidth quota is decent..

check to see what price it is when u exceed your limit..

it can get very pricey..

a 500 meg hosting space site for 20 a month is no bloody use if it only gives 1 gig per month bandwidth allocation..

get as much as you can..

know what you are hosting.. and how 'heavy' your site will be

ie no big graphics and videp clips. that wil be downloaded over and over again..

find out what the serevr is based on.. unix or windows

unix is better.. impo

if there is extras.. see if there are costs to enable them..

be wary..

how many email accounts?
does it give free cgi suppport? (handy for forms and emails etc)
does it give you stats and data on hits
do they promote you on search engines etc?

where is it hosted..
exactly? us or europe?
what sort of connection do they have to the web? T1 ?

what happens if you want to close it.. are u tied into a 12 month contract?etc etc


just use your cop on and be wary..

but there are plenty of good hosting sites out there..
pthag

I use web-mania too - have done for 3 or 4 years now. From their site:

WEB HOSTING
£20* per year

A great opportunity to have your site hosted at an affordable price.

Offer includes:

* 500MB of disk space
* 6GB of data transfer per month
* Frontpage extensions version 2002
* Unlimited POP3 [email protected]
* Unlimited mail forwarding [email protected]
* Webmail for POP3 accounts
* Email is filtered for Spam and Viruses
* Unlimited subdomains of your domain name
e.g. http://subdomain.yourdomain.com/
* CGI-BIN directory
* Control Panel
* Perl 5
* PHP 4
* SSI (server side includes)
* MySQL Database
* phpMyAdmin for MySQL management
* SSH access
* Full FTP access
* Detailed visitor statistics
* Close control downflow air conditioning units.
* UPS system and Generator back-up



All of our web servers contain Dual Processors, 1GB memory minimum
and Ultra Wide SCSI Hard Disk Drives with raid 1. Our network
consists of multiple 100Mbs fast Ethernet connections.
The cost of this package is
£20* per year


* All UK sales and all sales to European Union Member states for personal use will have UK VAT added at 17.5%.


There are no catches to this offer, if you want to cancel after the first year, then you can, there is no forced advertising on your site.

Based in York and have been going since '95.

I've had no real problems with them - any queries I've emailed to them have been responded to within 24 hours, normally sooner, even in the evenings