What's The Right Price For Web Hosting?

[Al Gorithum]

Having a bit of trouble with an existing web hosting/management provider, and also suspect we're paying too much. Apparently it's using 4gb (don't know if that's high or not).

Any idea on what a reasonable price is, and any recommendations please?

Thanks

[vaguelyfamiliar]

We use Krystal (https://krystal.uk) to run ours; cost is £34.99 per month which allows us to run multiple websites and they also provide database, email, Redis caching and much more in the package. For reference, our data transfer in June was 476Gb. Honestly wish I'd found them years ago

[48k]

Al Gorithum said:

Having a bit of trouble with an existing web hosting/management provider, and also suspect we're paying too much. Apparently it's using 4gb (don't know if that's high or not).

Any idea on what a reasonable price is, and any recommendations please?

Thanks

It's one of those "how long is a piece of string" questions. It would help to know what actually is being hosted (app server? database?), what web services are running (eg. is it Wordpress?), what support level is being provided, what level of business continuity/disaster recovery is there, what bandwidth is being used, how many unique visits per day etc.

[Al Gorithum]

vaguelyfamiliar said:

We use Krystal (https://krystal.uk) to run ours; cost is £34.99 per month which allows us to run multiple websites and they also provide database, email, Redis caching and much more in the package. For reference, our data transfer in June was 476Gb. Honestly wish I'd found them years ago

Thank you!

[Al Gorithum]

48k said:

It's one of those "how long is a piece of string" questions. It would help to know what actually is being hosted (app server? database?), what web services are running (eg. is it Wordpress?), what support level is being provided, what level of business continuity/disaster recovery is there, what bandwidth is being used, how many unique visits per day etc.

It's just a web hosting a Worpress site. There is a monthly health report (which somehow missed a critical error recently). I don't know about the continuity/recovery. Going slow at 2gb, says it needs to be upgraded to 4gb for an additional £20 per month.

[layercake]

4 Euros a month
https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produk...

[droopsnoot]

I've recently switched mine from Ionos to Mythic Beasts, after a few people on here and elsewhere recommended them. My site is not big enough to be worrying about monthly bandwidth, but the package I went for (Web 25) includes 100Gb monthly bandwidth for £2.50 a month.

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting

[The Moose]

Al Gorithum said:

48k said:

It's one of those "how long is a piece of string" questions. It would help to know what actually is being hosted (app server? database?), what web services are running (eg. is it Wordpress?), what support level is being provided, what level of business continuity/disaster recovery is there, what bandwidth is being used, how many unique visits per day etc.

It's just a web hosting a Worpress site. There is a monthly health report (which somehow missed a critical error recently). I don't know about the continuity/recovery. Going slow at 2gb, says it needs to be upgraded to 4gb for an additional £20 per month.

I presume you talking about memory not storage or data transfer?

[HantsRat]

I would avoid EIG group companies and be wary of those with cheap 1st year deals then lock you in at stupid priced after 12 months.

If it helps I host many websites for PH users. Servers are UK based and provide email, telephone and chat support with free migrations. Use code PISTON for 50% off too - https://blinkweb.co.uk/web-hosting/

[trickywoo]

I’m paying £7 a month plus VAT for website hosting and one cloud based email with 10gb of storage.

It’s probably as basic as the service gets but it’s reliable and does what I need.

[tpalmer]

As others have highlighted, it really depends upon what exactly you are paying for and storage use is only a small part of things - It sounds like a managed service they provide to you based on your post.

Does that include keeping the site up-to-date from a software and security stand-point? Do they monitor it for security issues, provide front-end updates, provide support should anything go wrong, or provide content population for you too? It could be fairly cheap if so.

If you know what you are doing and are happy to host yourself I'd recommend digital ocean. If you'd prefer someone to manage said service for you, but want to move to someone more pro-active / transparent, please feel free to give me a shout (we are a design and development agency).

Cheers,
Tristan.

[TotalControl]

Been with Krystal for a fair few years and don't think I'd change as their response times to any issues are incredibly quick. Never had a bad moment from them.