Web Hosting

camusalbert

Depends on storage you are going to have it in the website you can ask hosting space and email accounts (if any).

Lil306

weegie.geek wrote: »

Yep, you get full FTP access, and you can log into the control panel to do backups, install things like blogs and galleries, do maintenance etc.




Indeed. Most people don't even NEED more space/transfer/etc than an equivalently priced host would offer, and any who would need a lot will get kicked off an unlimited host for using too much. There's always a clause.

There's an element of overselling that's acceptable, and any good host who oversells will increase capacity when needed so the customers never notice any slowdown, but offering unlimited (especially something physical and finite like drive space) is just silly.

I suppose all in the webhosting would be guilty of overselling to some degree

With a cluster setup I wouldn't be too fussed as long as it would be load balanced etc, but I would be fussed if someone tried to oversell me on disk space, as stated the clauses always get you kicked off for abuse of their resources

weegie.geek

Lil306 wrote: »

I suppose all in the webhosting would be guilty of overselling to some degree

With a cluster setup I wouldn't be too fussed as long as it would be load balanced etc, but I would be fussed if someone tried to oversell me on disk space, as stated the clauses always get you kicked off for abuse of their resources

Well there are some who specifically state no overselling,but either you pay a premium for that, or they operate at such tiny margins that you're totally on your own, they give no support to speak of. Fine if you're comfortable with that, but it's not much use to a lot of people.

And the ones who operate at tiny margins never last long, they get bought up by bigger companies, or just close down.

Lil306

I would be comfortable because I'd be doing my own hosting, I don't go with anyone else I'd rather do my own. Cluster / Cloud hosting is a lot better so it's so manageable and expandable, soon as you need more computing power just whack in another node and you got more room... that's what I mean when I'm referring to overselling being OK, because it's under the correct management and before you encounter a problem it's already monitored and dealt with.

weegie.geek

Yeah, I've got a few VPSs dotted around the place. It's nice to have total control.

MothballsWallet

weegie: sorry to open up an old thread, but did you set up a domain from scratch with hostfor99p or did you transfer one to them?

I'm looking to transfer my personal domain from its current host (which costs me 20 quid a year, I know, I should have looked at this sooner) to someone who'll give me web and POP3 email hosting: hostfor99p looks ideal for me.

esuhl

MothballsWallet wrote: »

I'm looking to transfer my personal domain from its current host (which costs me 20 quid a year, I know, I should have looked at this sooner) to someone who'll give me web and POP3 email hosting: hostfor99p looks ideal for me.

Not sure if this helps at all, but I have my domains registered with 123-reg.co.uk (£2.99/yr for a .co.uk, and £9.99/yr for a .com). Rather than pay extra for 123-reg's email service, I get them to forward my email to a free webmail account using GMX (who provide POP3 and IMAP access).

Then for web hosting, I use zoka.cc. I only just signed up with them, but it seems like a pretty good service. You get 7GB diskspace, 250GB/month bandwidth, no adverts, PHP5 support, 100 SQL databases and one POP3 mailbox. It seems too good to be true, so I've been trying to find the catch! The only thing I've noticed so far is that they automatically insert a web counter script (from statcounter.com) into HTML files...