Hosting a business and some personal websites

BoltonMinx

Hi

Myself and my family have a number of personal websites which are coming up for renewal in 2 months' time. I've been hosting on a mates server but he wants it back!

One of the sites is a business site, the other 4 are personal. I really need:

1. Domain forwarding (.co.uk => .com)
2. MySQL db
3. Content management/e-commerce etc
4. Possibly support for chat rooms
5. Support for mailing list
6. SMTP
7. At least 20 mailboxes
8. 100mb or so of diskspace (able to upgrade)
9. 10GB or so of bandwith (for a small e-business, don't know if thats too much ?)
10. Some scripting (not fussed about ASP but would like PHP/PERL)
11. Really good support - don't want the business site offline!

Erm, anything else you can think of 34sp.com want £10-ish per month, can I do better than this ?

Disk space



500 MB



Monthly transfer



10 GB



Multiple domain support



5 domains



Mail boxes



50



Mail redirects + responders



50



MySQL Databases



5



SSL support



yes



SMTP support



yes



Spam filtering



yes



Virus filtering



yes



PHP / Perl / C / TCL scripting / SSI



yes



Microsoft frontpage support



yes



FTP / SFTP / SCP / rsync



yes



IMAP / POP3



yes



Log files, cron, .htaccess



yes




Setup Fee



none



Monthly Fee



£9.95

MrsTinks

Hmmm how about this:

Setup Fee None
Cost per month $5.95
Cost per quarter $17.95
Cost per year $69.95
Free domain name (.com .net .org .info or .biz)
Storage Space 2000 MB
Monthly Bandwidth Allowance 100 GB
E-mail Accounts 1000
Web Mail
Website Statistics (Analog, Webalizer, Awstats..)
FrontPage Extensions
cPanel Control Panel
cPanel Web Host Manager n/a
Shopping Cart
FTP Accounts + 24/7 Access (50 included)
Mailman Mail Lists (10 included)
POP3, SMTP & IMAP
E-mail Forwarding
E-mail Auto Responders
Real Media Compatible
Flash & Shockwave
Windows Media Compatible
Password Protected Directories
File Manager
Sub Domains (50 included)
Add-On Domains (3 included)
Parked Domains (3 included)
Spam Filter & Anti-Virus Protection
Secure Telnet (SSH) (by request)
Personal CGI Bin
Secure Server Access n/a
SSI - Server Side Includes
PHP4 & PHPMyAdmin
MySQL Databases (20 included)
Cron Jobs & Editor
Mime Type Editor
Apache Extension Handlers
Redirects
Hot Link protection
Perl 5
Fantastico Script Library
Custom Error Pages
24/7 Server Monitoring & Server Status Page
Filename or size restriction None
Access to raw logs
Auto Script Installation via Control Panel

http://www.topclasshost.com/compare_accounts.htm

You can either pay by DD or via a paypal account
I have 3 sites with them and they are very helpful and have great up time

BoltonMinx

Sounds good, how do you contact their support ? I'll admit, my nervous buddy prefers a UK company, how do they compare ?

Update: Ooops just realised they are based in Preston, which is on my doorstep

greyster

You may want to try jamroll.co.uk for your personal sites. They're really great and free. They meet your requirementrs.

As they don't offer a service level agreement of any kind I can't advise you to put your business site on there. However I can't fault them a single bit and I know other users of this site will support my statement.

MrsTinks

BoltonMinx wrote:

Sounds good, how do you contact their support ? I'll admit, my nervous buddy prefers a UK company, how do they compare ?

Update: Ooops just realised they are based in Preston, which is on my doorstep

Well you can e-mial them or use their call logging on their site (you click the "exsisting users" link
I've found them to be very good and I think it's now the third year I have been with them... They put up with an awful lot from me to be honest so I'd recommend them to anyone I have had them install loads of bits and bobs so that the server hosting my sites is compatible with the forum software I use (which was in Beta when I first installed it). Yes hey are based in the UK but charge in US $. Never really bothered to ask why to be honest :rotfl: but I am sure it must be to do with tax etc. If you look on their users list somewhere on their site then you should find one of my sites listed: https://www.animal-rescuers.com oh and if you include a link on your web page to say "hosted by etc etc" then they increase some of your stuff for free as thanks for the advertising