Website hosting

fishybusiness

I've been using Vidahost for some time now and I've been really happy with their cloud hosting and their customer services, and definitely their pricing.

They have a site builder service at https://www.vidahost.com/build-a-website for non-coders which should be worth a look. £4 a month for the basic package is pretty reasonable, as as I say, their customer service has been on the ball in my experience.

There seem to have been a number of changes at Vidahost over the last year or so.

I use them for 3 domains and business email. Email went wrong a couple of months ago, missing incoming, clients not receiving outgoing.

Anyway when I started to notice I asked tech support to get involved. Don't know what has happened but support is not a speedy or as in depth and continuous as it was. Ended up moving my email to another company as Vidahost refused to acknowledge there was a fault. As soon as I moved it, all was well again, incoming and outgoing sorted.

Food for thought.....

deskhelp

I would also advice to avoid godaddy as they are no good for small business website.. support and server are pretty slow and their cost changes are huge. For hosting you can try https://www.webhost.uk.net or https://www.rshosting.Com
both are pretty cheap with quality support.

Gloomendoom

I use Falcoda

googler

I used Namesco a few years ago. They are a British company, and I found their customer support to be first-rate.

rhysadams

Have a word with Rebecca from High Heel Creative, she does wordpress hosting from £3.99 per month includes email bits and a few other useful tools.

paddyrg

Just to add to the mix, TSOHost have some very economical packages and UK-based support, and Wordpress installation takes a few minutes.

Disco

Farway wrote: »

+ 1 for Vidahost, can't fault customer service although I use the "old fashioned" host package & not cloud

another +1 for VH, and with any new package you receive a full year free domain

anything please give me a shout - always wiling help out

Disco

amandajeanthomson wrote: »

Thank you - It's been a bit of a learning curve today, but thankfully, everything appears relatively intuitive! Basically, I want to attract individuals (business based) to my site, then have them fill in their email address/contact details if they are interested in a potential service I'm offering. I don't like to cold call, so I'm thinking this could be the best way forward.

The good news is the hosting part seems very inexpensive!

Its not just about building a site, to attract traffic (people/businesses) you may need some SEO/Keywording. Obviously there is Google Ads etc as well, but some people think building a site will get you to Page 1 of Google, meaning thats where a lot of people fall down. Also, it may take 2 or 3 people, with different skills to build a site.

forgotmyname

It used to be easy to get your site at the top of a google search, i had a few of my sites on my AOL webspace and they got to the top of google searches.

But there were a lot less sites back then, and google were not charging you to bump your site up the list.

Getting the visitors is the key these days. How will they find your site?
No good being number 700,000 out of 5 million searches because your going to be so far down the list where nobody bothers looking.