O/T : Web Hosting Services

[M@H]

Anyone know a good web-hosting service.. I'm setting up an online store (again) and need a reliable service:
10-20mb webspace
CGI Bin
Mail Handling
etc. etc.

And I don't want to pay a fortune..

Anyone got any thoughts..??

Cheers
Matt.

[Nightmare]

Matt,

I tend to use Nildram for everything I do..not the worlds cheapest but the service is generally excellent and reliable

Night

[M@H]

Hmmm. have prices gone up in the last few years?

they want £100 per year per 10MB, plus £20 setup, plus £40 per year mail handling..

..so a 20mb space from them will cost me £240 per year.

Matt.

[CarZee]

Matt

I use www.smartchoicenet.co.uk - they're cheap & cheerful.. provide IIS5, CDO objects for mail, plenty of storage etc. They provide a friendly and personal service even when I'm shouting at them for breaking the server with all my stuff on it. They are easily worth the money they charge.

The thing to bear in mind is that over and above the pittence that these guys charge, you're paying for guaranteed availability and tight SLAs when you go to more upmarket hosting companies..

[nevpugh308]

What about :

www.nicnames.co.uk

or

www.superb.net/

(USA based, but shouldn't make a difference)

Nev

[M@H]

Good Point Aidan..

..the irritation is that my own company is the best Financial ASP in Europe and hosts some of the busiest websites in the world.. however I'd never manage to "wing" some space on a productive server bank in our datacenters in Frankfurt.. Oh well.

Cheers
Matt

[CarZee]

You don't work for part of CSFB do you Matt?

[M@H]

Nope.. I think they might be one of our clients though..

[M@H]

Anyone used Claranet ???

[cleg]

yup very good company, I am lucky enough to have works dedicated server for use.

www.fastfreenet.com support what I think you want they have hosting on either NT or Linux

[pistol pete]

Anyone know where I can get a free .co.uk or similar domain name (redirection would do I 'spose). - Used freenetname last time I set one up for someone, but they are not accepting new subscriptions and I need one for myself now..

Cheers
Pete

[M@H]

I think I'll go with Claranet.. they sound prety switched on, no the phone and will do what I'm after for £59.99 per year...
Cheers
Matt

[JonRB]

On a mostly related subject, I use www.joker.com in Germany as my registrar for all my .com and .net domains (they don't do hosting, BTW) as they give me full control of the domains and I can change all aspects of it (contacts, nameservers, MX records, etc) and they give you free use of their nameservers for web forwarding also. And at €12 / domain / year they're pretty cheap too.

I'm still using http://uk2.net for my .co.uk and .ltd.uk domains and Joker can't act as registrar for these, so I'm looking for an equivalent to Joker to be the registrar for them.

Any suggestions?

Regards
Jon

[PetrolTed]

quote:
Anyone know where I can get a free .co.uk or similar domain name (redirection would do I 'spose). - Used freenetname last time I set one up for someone, but they are not accepting new subscriptions and I need one for myself now..

Cheers
Pete

www.easily.co.uk are pretty good for this sort of thing. £10 for a .co.uk for 2 years and email/web forwarding etc.

[Neil Menzies]

quote:
I think I'll go with Claranet.. they sound prety switched on, no the phone and will do what I'm after for £59.99 per year...
Cheers
Matt

A friend of mine runs www.paneristi.com which is hosted on Claranet - generally very good. And you can upgrade the package if your traffic/load builds up.

[cleg]

Another company I have used a lot that lets you change your own dns entry and is still £9.99 a .co.uk is www.freeparking.co.uk