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Website Hosting Cost
aj9648
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Hi
I have been using Site Ground to host my website over the last 12 months. It is due for renewal in the next few months and looking to see if there are better deals out there and how I can transfer my site over as well
They are asking for £83 for 12 months or £170 for 3 years
I am not too close to these things and wondered if that was a good deal or should I be looking else where?
I have been using Site Ground to host my website over the last 12 months. It is due for renewal in the next few months and looking to see if there are better deals out there and how I can transfer my site over as well
They are asking for £83 for 12 months or £170 for 3 years
I am not too close to these things and wondered if that was a good deal or should I be looking else where?
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Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it0 -
more expensive than site ground over 3 years...0
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Get new batteries for your calculator, £2.99 a month over 3 years doesn't come anywhere close to £170 and you get a lot more features.more expensive than site ground over 3 years...Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it0 -
I host my own site on an old laptop (on 24/7/365), using my home broadband connection.
Granted its nothing fancy and it couldn't cope with huge traffic flow, but for the £150 for the laptop and a few hours figuring out Apache, it suits me fine (10yr+ trouble free). Plus I've got full control and the ability to work live without having to upload files.
It started out as a way of hosting images for use on forums/etc, back when this used to cost money or was traded for your personal data.
If I needed outside web hosting i'd make damn sure it was both necessary and worth the money.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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What page are you looking at - I see it as 5.99 / month !!!0
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Directly underneath the plan you were looking at, Amethyst Starter PlanWhat page are you looking at - I see it as 5.99 / month !!!Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it0 -
https://www.tsohost.com/web-hosting
For me they've provided excellent service over the last 2 years using their standard plan and Cloud hosting platform - cPanel is also available.0 -
I am not too close to these things and wondered if that was a good deal or should I be looking else where?
Its up to you really, you can get hosting for pretty much free or you can spend a lot on a dedicated server. The question really depends on how important your website is to you.
Most small business/ hobby sites are on shared servers, which in principle is fine, but it means the servers capabilities are shared between all the different sites on it. The more budget the provider the more sites it hosts per server with some putting thousands on one machine. Of cause there is always an element of luck, you could be on a server with a thousand sites but most dont even get 1 visitor a day but on the flip side you could be on one with hundreds of highly popular heavy sites and the server is groaning.
One time we used a budget provider for a client's site the site would crash at 2pm every Friday and wouldnt come back online until we pestered them. Turned out another of their customers was trying to do a 12gb database upload at that time every week and it as killing the MySQL server which in turn took down our site.
Personally, I wouldnt shop on price alone unless the site is purely a hobby and downtime is just a bit of an inconvenience rather than loss of revenue.0 -
I agree it - depends on your website requirements.
Having said that very cheap shared hosting can still be brilliant - if you pick the right provider. Godaddy are reliable and cheap. Their chat based support is not great but their email/ticket support is - as long as you know that you should be fine. They offer fully up to date servers and cpanel and do have a lot of documentation.
But your current host does not sound expensive so if you are happy with the service why move? There is a job involved in transferring files and making sure versions of things are compatible and messing about with email accounts, so you need a reason to move.0 -
I would like to recommend you a website Pixiemedia.co.uk, there you can get cheap web hosting plans.0
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