UK web hosting recommendations please

QWERTY555

My chief Exec wants to set up a web site for a consultancy service. I will create it no problem but I wanted some advice on Hosting.

Cost is not the primary consideration. He wants a good UK host where he has a full control panel and 10 pop 3 mail boxes. It will be a low traffic site so does not need anything more than a small business type package.

Any recomendations please. Who is good , and who to avoid.
thanks

robt_2

Any particular reason why it has to be UK based? They are not generally the cheapest.

Cloister

I use Streamline.net for my site, the bandwidth is pretty good, always seems nice and quick for me.

http://www.streamline.net/

And I think they're pretty cheap at about £35 a year, have a look and see if they have anything to suit you.

C

Ps. if you want to look, my site is https://www.blokey.net.

PaulK_3

I use these guys
http://www.vooservers.com/
they were helpful, always quick to respond to queries or support requests and the price isn't bad either.

TechTerry

Just a quick note on streamline, support was awfull when i tried them and the control panel was hardly a control panel. I also beleive that they were resellers and that they did not own their own equipment when i was with them about 2 years ago.

Cloister

ah,

I've never had to contact support so I couldn't comment on that.

richt71

I'd recommend hostgator (I host about 300 sites with them). They've won many awards. However they're a US company although they offer 24 hour support.

weegie.geek

This question AGAIN?

Perhaps there should be a sticky, because I answer this once a week at least.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=12773891#post12773891
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=11159415t#post11159415

davejr

Depending on how many people you expect to realistically see it I would either use Bluehost for a smaller less visited site (http://www.bluehost.com/) or 1and1 (https://www.1and1.co.uk) for a larger site.

Bluehost is in Utah, US and has free livechat 24/7 support and have always helped (with over 10 accounts) and is pretty cheap

1and1 is hosted in Germany and is slightly faster/more reliable (since bluehost does updates at 3am in US which is about midday UK causing slow downs/sites to disappear for a few minutes)

I would recommend Bluehost as it only costs about £35 a year (i think)