[stickmus]

I'd like a new web host, but they've got to have those really snazzy looking servers, you know the ones.

Can anyone help?

[Brown]

ask helen.

[fcolor]

What do you definetely need users to do for you?

Regards
D.

[andymoo]

well i had bad times with both ukfast.net and clickhosting.co.uk so i can say i'd never go with either again

theplanet.com have been Fantastic to us with our servers, try to avoid naff resellers and overpriced sharks.

[andymoo]

as for domains, we deal direct with nominet for our .co.uk domains and get .coms from godaddy.com as they kinda rock albeit a bit of a payne to go through the order process, they give total control, a great price, 24/7 support and the dogs.

hth

[Stef_UK]

I found the best deal with sensical (www.sensical.net) - I did use webmania before and they where ok, although you got what you paid for I guess. I know some others have had moans about then. If you just want to register a site, 123-reg seems the cheapest I have seen..

[lyndon]

Originally Posted by Stef_UK

I found the best deail with sensical (www.sensical.net) - I did use webmania before, and they where ok, although you got what you paid for I guess.

£5 per month for unlimited space and bandwidth! Good Luck....

[andymoo]

Something tells me they'd renaig on the deal if I moved 30gb of our site there andd started pulling 8.8gb of data a day........

You get what you pay for in this game. £5 a month is enough to get a couple of boxes of Anadin, something you'd possibly need to help with the headaches of cheap n nasty hosting.

[Stef_UK]

Well it does say within reason, I have 1Gb up there now thou, and not a word... I know what you are saying, you get what you pay for, but then if you think about how much it costs to runing a hosting company, I think you pay for a lot more than you get with some!

Just found this at the bottom of the page:
* There is no limit on bandwidth or disk space. Sensical.net reserves the right to restrict unreasonable behaviour.

Hmm, well if 1Gb isn't unreasonable for a 'personal' account, I ain't complaining

[andymoo]

it doesn't cost that much to run a hosting company, yes it does if you build and maintain a datacenter but just getting a server from somewhere and an emon account isn't rocket science or that costly, you can get a dual xeon 2.8 machine with 1gb ram and 2 x 73gb drives plus 100mbps pipe and 2000gb data a month with offsite nas backup and 100% uptime for <£200 a month.......

That's why there are so many nasty bedroom hosting companies out there.

Hey, if you aint complaining though you can't knock it, just make sure your data is backed up offsite. I just don't trust this hosting industry, there are too many skankers out there.

[lyndon]

Originally Posted by andymoo

it doesn't cost that much to run a hosting company, yes it does if you build and maintain a datacenter but just getting a server from somewhere and an emon account isn't rocket science or that costly, you can get a dual xeon 2.8 machine with 1gb ram and 2 x 73gb drives plus 100mbps pipe and 2000gb data a month with offsite nas backup and 100% uptime for <£200 a month.......

Can do you one for around a ton :P

[andymoo]

i guess that's without 24/7/365 support and all the other bells and whistles we get!

[lyndon]

plain bog standard linux box, support, control panel are extra, but not as much as you might think.

[andymoo]

i think we'll deffo stick to the planet thanks!

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