Can someone reccomend a good webhost based in the UK.
Ive had it with etglobal
would you consider a non-UK host if their record is good enough?
i.e. 2 days downtime in 3 years.
I would prefer a UK host if possible.
Its for a shop and 95% of the traffic is from the UK.
godaddy. not uk, but awesome
Quote from: funkychicken9000godaddy. not uk, but awesome
Amen
Cheers,
Tongy
Even Im thinking of abandoning ship...
Dont mind paying a little more TBH.
Hmm, 5gb space and 250gb transfer from godaddy for about twenty quid a year if I go two years. Looks interesting.
Well etglobal have been down for 2 days now so Im starting to think they have just given up.
Godaddy seem great for the bandwidth and tech support. The only thing is the control panel takes a bit of getting used to.
Ive used 1and1.co.uk for years and never had any problems. Mates web design company uses them for clients aswell
Quote from: DoomsIve used 1and1.co.uk for years and never had any problems. Mates web design company uses them for clients aswell
Would steer clear.
I own
M3-computers.info and
RichardHicks.info through them, cancelled my account to stop renewal. They renewed anyway, then cancelled my account, and have now denied me access to the control panel. Despite several frustrating long phone calls talking to indian guys at the end of the phone I am now at the stage where they want me to re-sign up with them and pay another Ã,£20 for access to the admin panel for my domain names.
I own them purely in name only, and whats more, they had the gall of charging me Ã,£40 for the 2 domain names... no refunds. Bastards the lot of em. Steer clear of 1&1, they are fine when you are with them, the moment you leave they become cocks.
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Will do. I have 2 friends who used to work in the UK call center (I even inteviewed for a job with them myself) I wouldnt go any where near 1&1
Think Im going for godaddy.
nethosted.co.uk, one man band as far as i can tell, sub 10 minute response time for support calls.
might be tempted to keep big commerce sites with bigger hosts, but for personal sites and small to medium, this guy rocks
Matt
Quote from: bytejunkienethosted.co.uk, one man band as far as i can tell, sub 10 minute response time for support calls.
might be tempted to keep big commerce sites with bigger hosts, but for personal sites and small to medium, this guy rocks
Matt
Looks good, I think Ill give these a go. Im loosing patience with ETGlobal.
I ended up going for godaddy. The price and bandwidth take a lot of beating.
QuoteIm loosing patience with ETGlobal.
The site has been down since Friday now I think its safe to say they have gone for good. Would have been nice if they had given some notice to everyone.
Quote from: PaulusI ended up going for godaddy. The price and bandwidth take a lot of beating.
QuoteIm loosing patience with ETGlobal.
The site has been down since Friday now I think its safe to say they have gone for good. Would have been nice if they had given some notice to everyone.
For the moment its back up.
Quote from: Chris HQuote from: bytejunkienethosted.co.uk, one man band as far as i can tell, sub 10 minute response time for support calls.
might be tempted to keep big commerce sites with bigger hosts, but for personal sites and small to medium, this guy rocks
Matt
Looks good, I think Ill give these a go. Im loosing patience with ETGlobal.
tell him bytejunkie sent ya, not sure if i get anything, but at least he knows i recommend him
Matt
bump...
I take it godaddy are still recomended? What do people think of 123 reg?
Ive got a fun DNS name in mind (quiet cornholio) but I want a small bit of webspace for files and the ability to host a forum. Maybe a couple of mailboxes.
A bit of fun more than anything. Any particular packages recommended?
Godaddy have been great for me.
When I signed up the control panel was poor but they have tidied it up now and made everything a lot simpler.
godaddy have been superb with me. Signup / get password / login process is a bit lengthy/overcomplicated but the service is A1.
godaddy rock.
100% uptime as far as Ive seen. Supports great, theyre fast and professional and have been for a very long time.
Simply cannot fault them. They have massive packages for next to nothing and their allowances on space and bandwidth are just insane.
The only downside is the control panel isnt the most intuitive thing in the world if you want to do complex things with domains they dont host etc but everythings there and their help pages and support solve anything thats not obvious. You can tell theyre good when the biggest niggle is the config pages arent the optimum layout lol.
At first, I saw godaddy in place of the Wowhead site and was all "aaargh, virus scan quick!" but reading this, I might go back there. My ETGS account has been down weeks and nothing has been done over it. Granted, it mostly gets used for image hosting, but given I am in dispute with BT as well over line quality a place with reliable E-Mail may be good too.
Now...about rescuing my domain name from Easyspace registrar...
Oh, and hello :mrgreen:
Hi there. :)
hey - welcome to the forums :)
Yeah I have a feeling godaddy host wowhead. Seem to remember wowhead having a weird redirection thing when they first launched in protest for allakhazam and thottbot. Then again godaddy host tons of massive websites so I wouldnt be too suprised if they host thottbot and allakhazam as well really. They really are a huge hosting company.
If you email most old hosts theyre pretty ok about transferring your domain to you. There are ways to recover them even if theyre not.
Im currently looking at the Godaddy deals and it seems rather confusing to me. Economy hosting looks good enough for me but it seems if you want a decent E-Mail service, you need to pick up a package along with it. So I added the 5 addresses and 1gig space one. Is that needed?
How would I transfer my old domain to them as well. I cant see an option anywhere before I commit to this.
I think I ballsed this up. I cant get Easyspace to point my domain name to the Godaddy servers.
Steve can you actually recommend what package I should go for on my needs. Its the pckages are awfully confusing....
Again, bit of webspace for files and the ability to host a forum. Maybe a couple of mailboxes. 1 Domain.
their minimum package was fine for me and most people running a couple of small sites/forums with a few email accounts on each. The minimum package has huge bandwidth and storage allowances so should be fine for most people. If you find you do need more space down the line then you can just buy addons. i.e. a couple of quid for a few gig of extra storage for a year, etc.
The only real choice is between windows or linux (which may be obvious for you or not). If its not obvious then pick linux. Just cause their linux hosting let you auto install (and manage updates) for forum software, blogs, photo galleries, etc.
I took the minimum windows package originally. I decided I wanted to try linux after a couple of months so clicked a transfer hosting button. 2 hours later it was on linux. A few months later I clikced to buy an extra gig of space as a backup and that was ready the next day.
Arson: yeah the config pages for aiming other domain names at their hosting is far from obvious. You can do it but it took me a bit of fiddling/trial and error to work it out. Cba to do it tonight but if you cant work it out over the weekend just spark up a thread somewhere and Ill work out how I did it. Sure a lot of other people use them and had to work it out too :)
Cool, cheers. :)
I sent a ticket to support and see what they say. The control panel is definately hard to use though!
EDIT - Sent one off to easyspace too. And then Godaddy reply, then it suddenly works (http://www.pitchblack.me.uk). No idea who fixed it but it works at last! Now to try recover stuff from the old ETGS account...
yeah their control panel pretty much assumes you have the domain through them - it isnt obvious to do it the other way.
If you re ever stuck and cba to fiddle with it just email their support and they tend to either justtell you exactly what to do or more usually just fix it for you