Hosting Required

zyxd58

Hi, i've recently registered a few domains(same one except with.com.co.uk.net.eu etc...) and require hosting but don't know what to look for, I was with a company called hostdime before but they were rubbish

Must be UK or Western Europe based
Must be payable yearly
Less than £100 per year in total

ANy suggestions greatly appreciated

hamcaster

It would be better to know a bit more about your requirements first.

Why did you find hostdime rubbish? I've never heard of them, which isn't usually a good sign (although there are exceptions to that rule) - did they have a lot of downtime, were they slow, etc?

It would be useful to know:
* How many sites are you planning running? Just one site?
* How much bandwidth are you expecting to use? Is your site likely to hog resources? If you don't know the answer to either of these, could you tell us what kind of site you'll be running? This makes a big difference when it comes to hosting - if you're running one fairly small site, you can get good hosting for around $3/month, or $36/year (coming in at around a quarter of your budget), but if you'll be using more resources, you'll need a more expensive package

tony6403

I have not had any problems with using Freeola

dearbarbie

i use streamline.net....used to use justhost.com but they are awful!!

zyxd58

guffyuk wrote: »

It would be better to know a bit more about your requirements first.

Why did you find hostdime rubbish? I've never heard of them, which isn't usually a good sign (although there are exceptions to that rule) - did they have a lot of downtime, were they slow, etc?

It would be useful to know:
* How many sites are you planning running? Just one site?
* How much bandwidth are you expecting to use? Is your site likely to hog resources? If you don't know the answer to either of these, could you tell us what kind of site you'll be running? This makes a big difference when it comes to hosting - if you're running one fairly small site, you can get good hosting for around $3/month, or $36/year (coming in at around a quarter of your budget), but if you'll be using more resources, you'll need a more expensive package

They were down most of the time and kept changing settings without notification, support was rubbish since they were in the good'ol USA :mad:

Just two domains 1 personal one business
Must have 250mb or more storage
bandwidth - 5gb/month
PHP/perl not a necessity although would be good
upgrading later would be handy

any help is great thanks

phoneguy

You've not given a preference for the Server Operating System (Windows or *nix) and PHP will run on either platform. For compatability with the majority of packages out there I'll guess at *nix and recommend Zen - who I use (I'm new so I can't post links)

www . zen. co. uk/business /hosting-and-domains / web-hosting . aspx

Full featured, PHP/Perl/MySQL The Bronze & Silver accounts will do all you want, you can park multiple domains/aliases and service/pricing is really good. Plus - there is room to grow and upgrade as you need. Not connected with Zen, just a happy customer.

zyxd58

Thanks for your help, I've decided to give one called icebluehost a go after having it pm'ed me by mrchagle, seems to be what im looking for:j

WelshPaul

zyxd58 wrote: »

Thanks for your help, I've decided to give one called icebluehost a go after having it pm'ed me by mrchagle, seems to be what im looking for:j

Does not look very good when you are greeted by an invlaid cert error at checkout!

zyxd58

WelshPaul wrote: »

Does not look very good when you are greeted by an invlaid cert error at checkout!

Looking at it from chrome and firefox both say its fine, no invalid cert messages

WelshPaul

zyxd58 wrote: »

Looking at it from chrome and firefox both say its fine, no invalid cert messages

Using firefox here and: https://clients.icebluehost.com/cart.php?gid=1

gives me untrusted connection.

clients.icebluehost.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.

(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)

Not many posts in their forums either.

pawlala

If I were planning a new host I'd want to pay monthly at the beginning in case they didn't live up to the billing. Paying yearly up front is madness in this industry!