Small business web hosting

gb12345

terra_ferma wrote: »

It's the same company, did you think we wouldn't notice?
Spammer?

And my firewall blocks at least one (didn't bother trying the rest) of spammy's links Suspicious.

so53

Can I ask what the purpose of switching hosts, is it purely price driven or are you having problems with the existing host?

imran7861

so53 wrote: »

Can I ask what the purpose of switching hosts, is it purely price driven or are you having problems with the existing host?

Yes, price driven. He does not want to pay an external company to control renewing the website, as they charge to much, wants me to do it.

My options are:
Godaddy £1.99/m - 2 votes against
Namecheap £2.29/m - $3.45/m - 1 vote against
Croxhall £2.42/m
Vidahost £2.99/m - 2 votes
Layer 7 £1.40/m - $25/y
Emonsterhost £5.34/m - $7.95/m
Esphophosts £2.99/m
CSNewMedia £4.95/m
iPage £1.98/m - $2.95/m
Hostgator £2.65/m
Tsohost £2.99/m - 2 votes
Eukhost £2.75/m
Evohosting £3.99/m

Think that is enough suggestions to consider. My boss will probably go for the cheapest option as he will just assume they are all the same.

Is there any reason to go for the more expensive hosting companies, is the service worth paying extra for?

Thanks for your help so far guys.

terra_ferma

imran7861 wrote: »

Yes, price driven. He does not want to pay an external company to control renewing the website, as they charge to much, wants me to do it.

My options are:
Godaddy £1.99/m - 2 votes against
Namecheap £2.29/m - $3.45/m - 1 vote against
Croxhall £2.42/m
Vidahost £2.99/m - 2 votes
Layer 7 £1.40/m - $25/y
Emonsterhost £5.34/m - $7.95/m
Esphophosts £2.99/m
CSNewMedia £4.95/m
iPage £1.98/m - $2.95/m
Hostgator £2.65/m
Tsohost £2.99/m - 2 votes
Eukhost £2.75/m
Evohosting £3.99/m

Think that is enough suggestions to consider. My boss will probably go for the cheapest option as he will just assume they are all the same.

Is there any reason to go for the more expensive hosting companies, is the service worth paying extra for?

Thanks for your help so far guys.

On a different note, I have to say that someone who owns a business and makes decisions solely based on price is not going very far.
Going for the cheapest rather than one with a good reputation for the sake of a couple of quid a month doesn't show very good business acumen.

Maybe he needs to hear some horror stories. For example an e-commerce hosting company I know of moved some files from a website to a different one (totally unrelated and owned by a different company), and by doing so it published all their order invoices on line, with addresses, phone numbers and details of orders including herbal remedies for depression and impotence....

things worth paying for are:
low downtime
c panel and softacolous
24/7 support (if relevant)
phone support with UK based team
good contract terms (e.g. termination clauses)
email addresses included

Them main question is: How much would it cost your boss if the website was down and the hosting co didn't get it back up quickly?

jenniemiller177

How about Fasthost?

zoewebzoe

I wonder whether your boss has been a bit confused.

When you say "renew the website" do you mean the act of renewing the domain?

Hosting is most certainly not the same. Hosting itself is just space on a server but how much space, the quality of the software, the quality of the hardware, software and hardware maintenance, frequency of backups, cost of recovering a backup, email support, website support, proactive webmaster type skills etc etc etc

All make a huge difference. This week there was a massive attack on WordPress website across the globe. Different hosts responded in different ways. Some let the website get hacked, some prevented this by locking the system down.

£5 a month is nothing if the current service is good. And have you factored in the actual cost of the move? backing up the website, moving it across, re-pointing or moving the domains, resetting up the email etc as required? And the potential loss of rankings on Google if things go wrong and you have no proper strategy in place?

Just a thought...

sequence

Avoid 123reg for webhosting. They're web hosting is the slowest I've ever experienced.