DOMAIN and web hosting

robmcdougal90

I am looking at building my own website, does anyone know of a good web host to use?
thanks in advance

Lil306

Webhosts are cheap as chips

I'm currently hosting with fasthosts.co.uk and had no issues and I've got control over virtually everything bar putting entries into Global DNS.

I host my own website from my PC at home, so I can do all development instantly

There are packages you can buy from ebay who do all the hosting work for you

seedyh

I use these - http://www.hostgator.com/

Costs me £6 per month and is excellent. I use the 'baby' plan, almost everything is unlimited.

I tried several free options in the past and don't regret going for a paid solution one bit.

The other option is that your ISP probably gives you some web space and the option to register domains etc. Mine doesn't do PHP hence looking around..

pitkin2020

oneandone.co.uk

Avoid the prebuilt stuff and hosting from ebay as you may not get the full control your after. IF they have built the site and are hosting it all for you there is nothing stopping them pulling the plug.

Lil306

seedyh wrote: »

I use these - http://www.hostgator.com/

Costs me £6 per month and is excellent. I use the 'baby' plan, almost everything is unlimited.

I tried several free options in the past and don't regret going for a paid solution one bit.

The other option is that your ISP probably gives you some web space and the option to register domains etc. Mine doesn't do PHP hence looking around..

I've heard good reviews about hostgator, seems good. £6 a month seems pretty good, but how big is your site?

pitkin2020 wrote: »

oneandone.co.uk

Avoid the prebuilt stuff and hosting from ebay as you may not get the full control your after. IF they have built the site and are hosting it all for you there is nothing stopping them pulling the plug.

I agree with this, when I owned my first domain I had internet / pc problems and couldn't do backups, I asked if they could do it and they didn't. I lost about 2 years worth of work. Company was called darkenhosting.

The perks of using dedicated hosting is that you get a full control panel. If you do your own hosting you at least control what content goes on it, but you have to do all support. Doesn't bother me one bit as I'm trying to get into webhosting myself. Always best to learn before you earn

seedyh

Lil306 wrote: »

I've heard good reviews about hostgator, seems good. £6 a month seems pretty good, but how big is your site?

I host 4 different sites, 3 small ones and one quite large football related one with a forum. The stats say -

Traffic this month 2283 Visits Traffic last month 5471 Visits

That's just the football one..so it's fairly busy, had zero downtime and they're help is exellent. Live chat with the technical bods who've sorted the couple of issues I had (my own fault!) instantly.

The package is excellent - unlimited domains/subdomains/sqldatabases/email accounts/disk space/traffic etc.

kevrod79

TSO Hosts are good, reasonable price and excellent support.

http://www.tsohost.co.uk

Kev

the.ciscokid

Anything with cpanel.

FWIW, I use https://www.hostmonster.com.

pcombo

I would recommend my host but there rubbish.

Hosting 125+ clients on a 2GB, 2. Something Pentium4 with 10mpbs connection.

Cost me £8.25 for a year lol.

cit_k

Lil306 wrote: »

I agree with this, when I owned my first domain I had internet / pc problems and couldn't do backups, I asked if they could do it and they didn't. I lost about 2 years worth of work. Company was called darkenhosting.

Had the misfortune of dealing with them a few years ago.. Best to avoid with a bargepole in my opinion.

Lil306

Yep, the only good thing about them was cPanel. I so want a copy of that, but it's not free

Looking at Joomla, I'm sure it's CMS.