Domain name hosting and email forwarding

tammy66

Can anyone tell me of a good ,resonably priced company that does domain name hosting and email forwarding?

esuhl

I've never had a problem with 123-reg.co.uk... I think I pay about £3 a year for a domain with email forwarding...

gb12345

esuhl wrote: »

I've never had a problem with 123-reg.co.uk... I think I pay about £3 a year for a domain with email forwarding...

I've also used 123-reg with no problems, but the total cost is a bit more than the above.

Email forwarding is 99p a month for personal use and £4.99 for business. You'll also need to register a domain, assuming that you haven't already got one which is currently 7 quid for 2 years for a .co.uk.

The above only gets you an email domain - no website hosting.

railbuff

If you get hosting with a host that has cpanel then you can forward any emails. depending what you need in hosting such as space, bandwidth. we use http://niceday-hosting.co.uk/ and have no issues. but with any host you will need a domain to host.

DoA_2

Either way, you'll have to register (buy) your own domain name. As gb12345 said, that's cheap enough at about £7 for 2 years.

GoDaddy are one of the biggest domain name registrars on the net. Their business package looks good (here).

Go with Google - Use your own @mysite.com name, 25GB storage (as opposed to GoDaddy's 2GB). £3.50 month per address. Plus all the benefits of being hosted on the Gmail servers (uptime,availability,reliability,security etc. etc.) (here)

Or you could do what I'd do if I was setting your business up, buy some server space (then if you ever want / need a website, you don't have to fork out extra for that too).

Other advantage is that the email inbox space is limited only by the amount of webhosting space you buy.

A good shared (starter) package I personally use is Bluehost. £4.50 a month gets you:
- Unlimited space (for whatever you like - webhosting and/or email)
- Unlimited email addresses
- Unlimited domain names (if your company expands, add new domain names to the same account).
- Full access via smartphones / devices & online.
- All the usual goodies with webhosting (SQL databases, FTP etc).

Hope this helps, if you have any more questions - just ask here or PM me.

Disclaimer: I have no professional connection with any of the above companies. As I said, I use BlueHost for a few of my personal websites.

railbuff

DoA wrote: »

A good shared (starter) package I personally use is Bluehost. £4.50 a month gets you:
- Unlimited space (for whatever you like - webhosting and/or email)

Nothing is Unlimited EVER. if so where did you get your unlimited HDD or Unlimited car fuel tank or Unlimited Milk carton.

Bluehost is also part of EIG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group who have one of the worst support in the hosting industry

gb12345

railbuff wrote: »

Nothing is Unlimited EVER. if so where did you get your unlimited HDD or Unlimited car fuel tank or Unlimited Milk carton.

There is a lot of difference between a milk carton/fuel tank, and hosting space.

Hosting can be unlimited based on the fact that the host will have terabytes of storage available, so to the average customer, it will be unlimited as they will never reach whatever limit there really is available.

I work for a company (not hosting) and we regularly sell unlimited storage to multi-national customers with massive datawarehouses. If anyone were to get within 30% of the available storage on their platform, we just bung another terabyte drive onto the database, so as far as they are concerned it is unlimited.

DoA_2

Ohhh please, this was not meant to be a thread full of the technicalities of hosting.

Yes, my point was, it is effectively unlimited. In any case, it's a lot larger than the 2GB you get with GoDaddy & even the 25GB you get with Google.

With regards support, I can only speak from my personal experience & they have been great. For the price, the uptime is great too .... but there we go again with the technicalities.

WilliamO

One key thing to check out regardless of what you decide, OP, is how many e-mails in bulk you can send out in one go per hour/day/week/month - Some hosts will have limits on this. Obviously this is only really applicable if you are considering large mailing lists, newsletters send outs and so on in bulk.

WilliamO

railbuff

gb12345 wrote: »

There is a lot of difference between a milk carton/fuel tank, and hosting space.

Hosting can be unlimited based on the fact that the host will have terabytes of storage available, so to the average customer, it will be unlimited as they will never reach whatever limit there really is available.

I work for a company (not hosting) and we regularly sell unlimited storage to multi-national customers with massive datawarehouses. If anyone were to get within 30% of the available storage on their platform, we just bung another terabyte drive onto the database, so as far as they are concerned it is unlimited.

this has been discussed many times on WHT and many hosting forum bann anyone adverting unlimited space/bandwidth as it DOES NOT exsist. even a upstream provider with 10 terabytes of storage then the limit is 10 terabytes of storage which if you offer unlimited space they could use all the 10 terabytes of storage and you cant do anything or you would breach your contract. you will find that any host offering unlinted space/bandwidth will have limits set in their TOS/AUP.

bluehost as an example that offer unlimited space/bandwidth in their TOS

Unlimited Hosting Space; excessive MySQL files.Bluehost does not set arbitrary limits on the amount of disk space a Subscriber can use for the Subscriber's website, nor does Bluehost charge additional fees based on an increased amount of storage used, provided the Subscriber's use of storage complies with these Terms. Please note, however, that the Bluehost service is designed to host websites. Bluehost does NOT provide unlimited space for online storage, backups, or archiving of electronic files, documents, log files, etc., and any such prohibited use of the Services will result in the termination of Subscriber's account, with or without notice. Accounts with a large number of files (inode count in excess of 200,000) can have an adverse affect on server performance. Similarly, accounts with an excessive number of MySQL/PostgreSQL tables (i.e., in excess of 1000 database tables) or of database size (i.e., in excess of 3GB total MySQL/PostgreSQL usage or 2GB MySQL/PostgreSQL usage in a single database) negatively affect the performance of the server. Bluehost may request that the number of files/inodes, database tables, or total database usage be reduced to ensure proper performance or may terminate the Subscriber's account, with or without notice.

so they do have a limit

pompeyred

So you want a domain suffixed email address but not the webspace to host a domain - if its a business email address it seems a little weird to have an email address of firstname.lastname@ yourcompany.com but then not offer the people sending you an email no functionality to visit the site the email address suggests is in place. If its for personal use, save yourself the money and get a free address.

By the way though hosting for a very basic package including a domain name is very cheap now and most offer simple site building tools.