On 08 Aug 17:00, Mark Rogers wrote:
A web designer friend of mine has several (~40) websites hosted at Fasthosts who have been constantly letting him down. He is not technical, and has decided he wants out of web hosting so he can focus on the website design.
Any suggestions who I should recommend?
Well, that doesn't really say what the requirements are, if it's just static site hosting, that's different to say a rails based web app, or a django site... database requirements, languages, etc could easily change who the recommendation would be.
At this stage I think he's looking for someone who would deal with end users (ie the customer buys a site from him and hosting from someone else), although I would personally suggest he just looks for a reliable host who will support him when something breaks. He's currently using Plesk so someone who could migrate what he has now would be ideal in my view.
My company used to do web hosting (and used to host his sites) which is why he's asking me, but it's not something I want to get back into. I would prefer to recommend someone I "know" (eg a local company with a member of staff on this list). Ie I'd rather have answers that start "we do this" than "we use xyz who does this", but I'm open to all.
Off the top of my head, I'd recommend Mythic Beasts.
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting.html
Mostly because they're a lovely bunch of guys.
(Disclaimer: Erm, I'm going to be an employee of theirs in about a month...)