On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:25:48 +0100 Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk allegedly wrote:
A bit off topic perhaps but I thought I'd ask you lot. Domain name hosting. Ted might be puzzled by this since I recommended 1&1 a while ago now. They haven't been a bother but it looks like I should think about transferring things for various reasons. Who out there is cheap and reliable? How do you find out exactly how much any one package will cost per year? I'm just talking about a domain name and related email address.
Bev
I use two companies - daily.co.uk and bytemark.co.uk. Bytemark get my vote for technical competence and excellent support. They also host my DNS (for all my domains, including the ones registered with daily).
I agree with your decision to move from 1and1. They were a disaster for me and made the move away (to daily where I initially had a couple of VMs) unnecessarily complicated. I have decided against moving the registration of all my domains to bytemark simply because it is too risky. I lost one domain for 11 days once (see https://baldric.net/2009/08/02/dns-failure-a-cautionary-tale/ ) and do not want that to happen again.
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