Hi, Can anybody suggest a cheap and reliable web hosting company? Nothing particularly special is needed, just somewhere to host a site for some friends and myself.
Simon
Simon Jude S.Jude@uea.ac.uk sed:
Hi, Can anybody suggest a cheap and reliable web hosting company? Nothing particularly special is needed, just somewhere to host a site for some friends and myself.
Now Internet. www.nowi.net
Simon
lewis
You *could* host your own on an ADSL line. If available, of course.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Jude" S.Jude@uea.ac.uk To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:55 AM Subject: [Alug] Web hosting
Hi, Can anybody suggest a cheap and reliable web hosting company? Nothing particularly special is needed, just somewhere to host a site for some friends and myself.
Simon
Simon Jude wrote:
Hi, Can anybody suggest a cheap and reliable web hosting company? Nothing particularly special is needed, just somewhere to host a site for some friends and myself.
I do that, on Gentoo Linux-based servers: £120 pa. We have a 2meg line, and support mysql/php4 etc. Could be talked into doing a deal for ALUGers.
We're based in Ipswich, BTW.
Cheers, Laurie.
Simon Jude S.Jude@uea.ac.uk wrote:
Can anybody suggest a cheap and reliable web hosting company? Nothing
ALUG's current web hosts are www.php4hosting.co.uk who have been very good, recent hardware failure notwithstanding.
ALUG's mailing lists are hosted by www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk who also offer hosting of various types.
Other service providers may be available ;-)
On 2003.04.15 11:55 Simon Jude wrote:
Hi, Can anybody suggest a cheap and reliable web hosting company? Nothing particularly special is needed, just somewhere to host a site for some friends and myself.
I have had my site hosted by www.ghoulnet.com for just over two years now. Generally quite reliable and not expensive. I believe they start at about £35.00 a year for 25MB.
Regards
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
On Tuesday 15 April 2003 3:37 pm, Barry Samuels wrote:
On 2003.04.15 11:55 Simon Jude wrote:
Hi, Can anybody suggest a cheap and reliable web hosting company? Nothing particularly special is needed, just somewhere to host a site for some friends and myself.
I have had my site hosted by www.ghoulnet.com for just over two years now. Generally quite reliable and not expensive. I believe they start at about £35.00 a year for 25MB.
At PC-Seller (where I work) we do hostsing ona Windoww 2000 servers with IIS 5 (haaaawk - spit). Anyway, £100 a year, not sure of the bandwidth availiable, but its lots... anyway, the space is theoretically infinite (we might get upset if you use more than a few gb... only if you inconvenience other users...) infinite pop3 boxes for the domain. We would do Redhat servers, php and so on, except thats an extra £250 per year, and we dont actually have any demand (apart from me, my site is all PHP and mysql, dammit) I might be able to get a discount for Aluggers, maybe down to ~60 but dont quote me there...
Tristan Scott PC-Seller 01493 442233
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Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
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main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk wrote on 16 April 2003 20:12:
At PC-Seller (where I work) we do hostsing ona Windoww 2000 servers with IIS 5 (haaaawk - spit).
As in Albatross? I remember that place - it was where I cut me teeth in the ISP world before moving on to Net Communications and then into the wider world of London where I'm now in the film industry and regretting every moment of it :) BTW, do you guys actually host your servers there now, or are you still running under Fasthosts (and if so - WHY? There are far better places in which to get hosting).
Anyway, £100 a year, not sure of the bandwidth availiable, but its lots... anyway, the space is theoretically infinite (we might get upset if you use more than a few gb... only if you inconvenience other users...) infinite pop3 boxes for the domain. We would do Redhat servers, php and so on, except thats an extra £250 per year, and we dont actually have any demand (apart from me, my site is all PHP and mysql, dammit) I might be able to get a discount for Aluggers, maybe down to ~60 but dont quote me there...
Ah, but do you offer SSH access to any of your accounts?
Regards,
Martyn
main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk wrote on 15 April 2003 11:56:
Can anybody suggest a cheap and reliable web hosting company? Nothing particularly special is needed, just somewhere to host a site for some friends and myself.
I've decided to enter into the foray of web hosting offers, and I'd like to offer Aluggers a bargin hosting fee of £3.50 per month (or if you want to pay annually, £35) for an account which offers the following features:-
- 150Mb web space - 5Gb data transfer per month - 1 hosted domain, 1 sub-domain and 1 parked domain - 2 MySQL databases - 2 MailMan mailing lists - 10 POP3 email addresses - CGI access along with PHP 4.3.1 support - Ultra easy to install phpBB2 forums - Email forwarding and autoresponders - Email blocking and filtering including Spam Assassin spam filter - CPanel 6 control panel to manage the account - Frontpage extensions (of course, *entirely* optional) - Web stats, etc.
If you need any more web space, MySQL databases, mailing lists or whatever, then that's not a problem - I can arrange whatever is required for a good fee.
I'm working on the possibility of shell access, but for the time being there isn't. However, the site would be hosted on a Red Hat 7.3 box in the US and I've not had any problems with the provider that I'm using for this.
Payments by Paypal, Nochex, Fastpay or personal cheque/P.O. If anybody should be interested in this, please email me off list.
Regards,
Martyn (trying to be an ISP again - I miss it!)
Thanks to everybody who has posted suggestions about web hosting. I have temporarily set the domain we have to redirect to one of my websites. In the longer term I may take up one of the offers of low cost hosting, although a broadband connection and a linux box may be an option. Is this latter option easy to do and which broadband suppliers allow static ip addresses??
Simon
Simon Jude wrote:
Thanks to everybody who has posted suggestions about web hosting. I have temporarily set the domain we have to redirect to one of my websites. In the longer term I may take up one of the offers of low cost hosting, although a broadband connection and a linux box may be an option. Is this latter option easy to do and which broadband suppliers allow static ip addresses??
Bear in mind that your upstream speed on ADSL is only 256kbs, regardless of your downstream speed. SDSL is different (but not available outside London yet), as is a leased line (which is what we have here: 2mbs each way).
You should also bear in mind the possible consequences of "low-cost" hosting. I've been there, which is one reason I started running an ISP. I get almost all my business by referral, and a large proportion of that is people who've been burnt by the various problems of low-cost/US-based hosting.
I've seen outfits offering hosting for less than 2 quid a month. I fail to see how they can offer any support at all in that, or how there can be any semblence of service in it. When I got quotes for my line, they ranged from £12Kpa to £35kpa. It would be cheaper to go to some outfit like rackspace and have a Cobalt RAQ (yuk) or a Dead Rat box (double-yukk) in the US, but there's no hope of service or knowing they are secure.
One reason I won't do "low-cost" hosting is that I offer secure, fast, UK-based hosting, with personal service and support, based on Gentoo Linux. If I charged less than 2 quid a month, I wouldn't survive in business more than 5 minutes.
YMMV.
Cheers, Laurie.
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