Best Hosting Providers?

DezUk · 23 Mar 2020 at 23:20

Arite Folks,

My old mans hosting has come up for renewal and I thought I would ask what everyone else is using right now?

Looking to host a few simple websites and the odd wordpress install. Ideally UK based and as cheap as possible but reliable.

Cheers

Biz.Kid09 · 25 Mar 2020 at 07:32

krystal hosting are very well recommended, I am with TSOHost personally.

DezUk · 25 Mar 2020 at 20:43

Thanks for the recommendation mate. Taking a look at krystal now.

Pho · 27 Mar 2020 at 22:13

When I was looking into it the other year both Krystal and EUKhost were well recommended. I ended up with EUKhost as it worked out slightly cheaper for my use case or something.

Used to use Vidahost/Tsohost but they went rubbish from what I hear after selling out to GoDaddy. Shame.

andy_mk3 · 27 Mar 2020 at 22:16

Been with Krystal for several years now, fantastic service.

On Holiday · 27 Mar 2020 at 22:32

Krystal.

Couldn't recommend Vida/Tso/Godaddy from what our customers that migrate away from them have to say but never heard a bad word about Krystal, definitely a company that cares about reputation and will look after you though.

Myfz · 31 Mar 2020 at 09:44

Hi Dez!

Dedicated server:
I use "Kimsufi" it's a subcompany of OVH : https://www.kimsufi.com/en/servers.xml
I pay like 7€/month for KS-1.

Simple Hosting :
I also have some domain name/simple hosting directly with OVH.
For Web Hosting (php/wordpress) and domain name it will be 40€/year.

The only thing is, their servers are based in France or Canada.

So if with you Website have a ".co.uk" and you mainly target people in UK, forgot OVH/Kimsufi.

If your customers come from "everywhere" and have a .com domain name, why not ? It will didn't change much in term of SEO.

ps : I'm based in Ireland, and they provide worldwide support. I never had any issues for probably more than 7 years.

Terrier_Jimlad · 31 Mar 2020 at 21:43

StablePoint or Krystal for basic cPanel hosting - dont think you can beat either of them. Avoid TSOHost like the plague

p_r_i_m_e · 8 Aug 2020 at 11:14

Terrier_Jimlad said:
StablePoint or Krystal for basic cPanel hosting - dont think you can beat either of them. Avoid TSOHost like the plague

I'd second that and add Fasthosts to list to avoid, personally moved to Stablepoint and had no issues

superleeds27 · 8 Aug 2020 at 15:36

Have sites with Krystal and Stablepoint.

Stablepoint is the route I'm going down

MatteRB26 · 30 Aug 2020 at 08:47

I've used Ionos (used to be 1&1) for years now for both WordPress and .NET and not had any issues. As far as I know they have servers in many countries including UK

Glanza · 31 Aug 2020 at 10:44

MatteRB26 said:
I've used Ionos (used to be 1&1) for years now for both WordPress and .NET and not had any issues. As far as I know they have servers in many countries including UK

You might want to check your billing, they automatically add things to your bill such as 'out of date' php and charge you for it without telling you.

We moved all our hosting and domains to a mixture of 20i and Krystal and can't fault 20i however Krystal's own DNS hosting you still can't delete records and support have to do it for you.

MatteRB26 · 31 Aug 2020 at 18:35

Glanza said:
You might want to check your billing, they automatically add things to your bill such as 'out of date' php and charge you for it without telling you.

We moved all our hosting and domains to a mixture of 20i and Krystal and can't fault 20i however Krystal's own DNS hosting you still can't delete records and support have to do it for you.

My bills haven't changed for years. I pay £5.99/month for a Windows host,5 MySql & 5 MSSQL databases, 100 mailboxes. I pay £17.98 every March and September for two domains (which includes the 5.99) and haven't seen anything odd. In fact, I'm on updated servers now running PHP 7 etc.

MrPleasant_exe · 20 Dec 2020 at 16:02

Yourself, get a dirt cheap Linux box, I'm paying 15 euro every 6 months for mine.

MatteRB26 · 20 Dec 2020 at 16:19

MrPleasant_exe said:
Yourself, get a dirt cheap Linux box, I'm paying 15 euro every 6 months for mine.

And what's your maintenance, scalability, fallbacks, backups, domains, email, support etc. like?

andy_mk3 · 20 Dec 2020 at 16:21

MatteRB26 said:
And what's your maintenance, scalability, fallbacks, backups, domains, email, support etc. like?

I agree but it definitely depends on the use case. It's definitely an option for something small and not too critical.

MrPleasant_exe · 20 Dec 2020 at 17:48

MatteRB26 said:
And what's your maintenance, scalability, fallbacks, backups, domains, email, support etc. like?

Of course it depends whet you need, but right now I run multiple websites, a WordPress site, as for backups I backup to my NAS at home, are you more asking about the server host itself?

OldKitMan · 20 Dec 2020 at 18:37

Ionos here as well. Was with Vidahost but for what I was needing it became a bit pricey, Ionos are very reasonably priced IMO and never had any issues with them either.

Glanza · 21 Dec 2020 at 15:30

OldKitMan said:
Ionos here as well. Was with Vidahost but for what I was needing it became a bit pricey, Ionos are very reasonably priced IMO and never had any issues with them either.

I would check your bill, Ionos are notorious for adding things to your account that aren't required to get your monthly bill up.

seanyc5 · 9 Jan 2021 at 13:21

One . com here. Should I be switching to Krystal? Would it be faster? £120 for the year for up to 5 sites I am paying.