Website Hosts

bevan840

Hi

I've looked through and couldn't find a thread about good hosting site's.

I'm signed up with businesslink and started on my business plan and I'm trying to find everything out before I make my decision of going ahead with my business or not.

I know there are a lot of hosting sites and I'm unsure of which ones are good and which ones I should steer clear of, so any help would be greatly appreciated

marvin

That question will bring a load of I like this one and I hate that one which is often not very helpful or instructive!

It all depends on what you want the site to do as some hosts are better for some things and others for others.

So if you could explain what a little about what the site will be for, just a plain advert, e-comerce with shop etc it would help with those willing to advise.

bevan840

Thank you for your reply Marvin

I'm starting a home business selling homemade jewellery, so I'll need to be able to display the photo's in a nice manner and accept payments. Paypal at first until I find out other ways to accept payments.

I've done a check for my domain name and it hasn't been taken yet, put hosts into google last night and ended up with loads of them! There are some ranging from £5 - £40 ish, so trying to find the best deal for what I will need

For a website thats going to have lots of photo's on would it be a good idea to have one with more webspace? 1GB etc

steve1980

I'll send you a message.

bevan840

ok, thank you steve

steve1980

You should buy your domain now. If it's a .co.uk then you can get this from 123-reg.co.uk for £7.03 for two years.

bevan840

Thanks Steve, I'm doing all research at the moment, the domain name I'm after is available in all formats at the moment. Just trying to work out all expenses so that I know what I need to be making to make it a success

bevan840

Anyone else have any suggestions?

steve1980

Based on the details I gave you earlier you're looking at an initial outlay of £22.00ish.

GoodNewmover

bevan840 wrote: »

Hi

I've looked through and couldn't find a thread about good hosting site's.

I'm signed up with businesslink and started on my business plan and I'm trying to find everything out before I make my decision of going ahead with my business or not.

I know there are a lot of hosting sites and I'm unsure of which ones are good and which ones I should steer clear of, so any help would be greatly appreciated

I'd recommend the following hosting companies (UK):
NetHosted
Totalwebsolutions
VidaHost

steve1980 wrote: »

You should buy your domain now. If it's a .co.uk then you can get this from 123-reg.co.uk for £7.03 for two years.

Agree lol; especially if you believe it fits well with your business. 123-Reg are not suitable for hosting but great for domain name registering.

bigheadxx

gbbo.co.uk

Is sponsored by BT and google and lets you register a domain and set up a website for free for 2 years.