Website Hosting

crisp_eater

Hi I am looking for advice.

I am looking to launch a new non-transactional website (think I will use wordpress for content management) and I am looking for recommendations where this can be hosted. I know a lot of USA web developers recommend HostGator but is there a better UK one?

I'm not massively techie so all advice welcome...

Thanks....

crisp_eater

Has anybody used siteground before? they are coming up high in my searches?

fenlander_uk

I use Tsohost for my Wordpress sites. They've been very good.

Tropez

I second the recommendation for TSO Host. Used them for a few years now to manage a couple of different 'hobby' sites. There's a User Control Panel which allows you to install various applications, including Wordpress and it's pretty simple to use and very user friendly.

Prices are very good. At the low end it's about £14.99 per year, then there's a £2.99 (or £29 per year option) or a £4.99 (£49 per year) option. The £4.99 option comes with a one year domain registration too, along with a few other benefits such as extra mailboxes (although you're unlikely to need the 100 on offer) and extra bandwidth, webspace etc.

What really impresses me though is their customer service and response times. I've never actually had to contact them about technical problems but there's been a few billing things (once I paid the wrong invoice, another time I changed my mind about allowing a domain to lapse... that type of stuff) and usually they have responded within thirty minutes and addressed my support tickets within an hour.

londonTiger

I use tsohost cos they were they best price/value for <7 sites. Though I have lots of UK sites that are low traffic and use hardly any resources. Just holding them - and their £25 for additional addons (from the base 5 addons+1 primary) was a bit of a rip off.

There are other hosts like posilan (cpanel silver) that offer more addons for similar price plan.

Note: recently had issues with posilan throttling my cpu capacity down because it hit the limit.

djmsemcgrath

BlueHost is the recommended host for Wordpress, for what that's worth.

londonTiger

damianjmcgrath wrote: »

BlueHost is the recommended host for Wordpress, for what that's worth.

Myth. Practically all php/mysql websites will be geared for wordpress because wordpress is probably 3/4 of the CMS used in shared hosting.

Bluehost was considered good but a few years ago they started over subscriving their servers and I helped a lot of clients move sites out from bluehost to services like arvixe.

tsohost, eukhost and to a latter extent posilan are worthwhile if you have a Uk centric site. Posilan did !!!! me off. I have 1 website only on a 10 site plan using a wordpress site that gets 30 uniques a day and it was throttled for exceeding CPU limits.

Maybe there was a dity bugged chron job that cause it, or a massive brute force attack, who knows.

djmsemcgrath

londonTiger wrote: »

Myth.

What do you mean, myth? BlueHost is currently the only hosting company recommended by wordpress.org.
https://wordpress.org/hosting/

That doesn't automatically make it good, or the best one, but it's the recommended one by Wordpress, which I thought may be useful information to the original poster.

londonTiger

damianjmcgrath wrote: »

What do you mean, myth? BlueHost is currently the only hosting company recommended by wordpress.org.
https://wordpress.org/hosting/

That doesn't automatically make it good, or the best one, but it's the recommended one by Wordpress, which I thought may be useful information to the original poster.

wordpress.org is not like wikipedia, it is owned by a corporate megalodon that is known as auttomattic. Automattic is the moneymaking arm of their operation and automattic software are well integrated with wordpress.

Akismet is installed by default into all wordpress installations and everyone who uses its business license pays $5 a month to automattic. They also buy plugins that are popular and beat automattic at their own apps such as woocommerce.

So I doubt wordpress.org are singing the praise of bluehost because they genuinly think it's a good host. they are probably promoting it because bluehost are paying them a kickback.

wordpress.org is not "free", it's run as a loss leader to make money for automattic and they're not going to be altruistic and give away free business to bluehost

Samsonite1

I have been using eukhost for over 10 years. I find the cost to be reasonable, but the customer service is excellent. I have hosted many sites and if I have ever had issues or just general technical questions (even down to a programming level), they have come up trumps. I use both Windows and Linux servers. They seem to be able to alter your services later on if you ask for something specific - very helpful people.

bingo_bango

Samsonite1 wrote: »

I have been using eukhost for over 10 years. I find the cost to be reasonable, but the customer service is excellent. I have hosted many sites and if I have ever had issues or just general technical questions (even down to a programming level), they have come up trumps. I use both Windows and Linux servers. They seem to be able to alter your services later on if you ask for something specific - very helpful people.

+1 for EukHost.

Been using them for about 6 years now and have found the CS to be excellent on the occasions I have used them (especially with some of my early idiotic questions ). Also reasonably priced with Fantastico installer (one click for Wordpress) and intuitive cPanel.