Good website hosting?

F1F1

cheesy.mike wrote:

There are slighly cheaper options available, but I really like the service that I get from http://1and1.co.uk I use them to host my charity's website and for £4.99/month I get the domain name, webspace, lots of bandwidth and a really great admin interface that gives me loads of info.

Mike

Not trying to knock 1and1 but, while quoting a monthly price sounds quite cheap, it is £60 pa. A .co.uk domain is around £9.99 <£8.50 ex vat> for 2 yrs. Hosting with somebody like http://www.virtualnames.co.uk/ is £23.50 pa <£20 ex vat>. So you could have a perfectly good domain and hosting for £28.50 pa. <£24.25 ex vat>

lee634

dont know where people are getting £60 for a 1and1 webhosting have just gone through their sign up and it would cost £32.74 inc vat
This is for 12 months instant website
and 2 years domain name registration (.co.uk domain)
including in this is

• 20 POP3 accounts
• 100 e-mail aliases
• 1&1 Webmail & auto-responder
• Virus scan for all 5 e-mail accounts

• DNS Management
• 8 page 1&1 WebsiteBuilder
• FTP Access

although it says 8 page website this is with their own software you get 250 Mb of space, so if using own FTP software more than 8 pages

fybar

Rick,

It's difficult to believe Freeola.com. I'm naturally suspicious and am looking for the cathc but can't see it. Anyone else use, and can rceommend, Freeola.com?

Jim

ahrimaniac

Well I found the catch with freeola.

Too late, annoyingly, having read through their ToC, I didn't catch that you had to physically dial up through them to upload stuff to your website or receive your emails ending with your domain. What a ******* joke. I've got a broadband connection, I can't dial up, I don't even have a bloody dial up modem.

Rang their customer service 'Ring back tomorrow, don't have a manager'.