IT service quote: is it reasonable?

[Chicken #16]

Web Hosting: - Bespoke MySQL hosted website service with Email feed with anti-Virus and Anti Spam for 12 months for 20 accounts, £45 per month
2 additional databases. £10 per month
51 additional email accounts for 12 months, £51 per month
IP address £6 per month

Total £112 per month


Is that reasonable or are we being taken for a ride?

(the bit I haven't mentioned is the x2 2-8mb internet connections charged at £60 each per month...the ISP has left us without internet total of 4 days this year....certainly no business service anyway)

 

[atmax1]

You can get linux hosting for cheap (windows as well now i think)... with unlimited mysql databases and email accounts, ips I get for £1.50 with my dedicated server.

 

[Beansprout]

Incredibly overpriced (as in, 20x) and likely inferior to a hosting company which focuses on simply hosting. I'm biased so can't recommend anyone of course but plenty of people will be along soon I'm sure

 

[Imy]

Well for £30/month + vat I rent my own dedi server and I get all those things plus a lot more.

 

[kkbigal]

I think you'd almost certainly find better prices from most of the well-known hosting providers, even dedicated servers.

I'd certainly shop around before you sign on the dotted line

 

[Major_Disaster]

Well for £30/month + vat I rent my own dedi server and I get all those things plus a lot more.

This

 

[Beansprout]

Also for the internet access take a look at CCSLeeds, they're excellent and can probably beat £120/mo too.

 

[Chicken #16]

cheers...what I suspected.
http://www.ccsleeds.co.uk/webhost4-info.html

option 4 is £25 per month and I think does everything we want

any others to look at?

 

[Major_Disaster]

Still seems a bit expensive for what it is. What do you actually need? Just bog standard web hosting?

 

[Rroff]

Unless its "mission critical" you can rent a reasonable spec VPS from a reputable provider like rapidswitch for £7-20 a month that would do all that with fairly minimal setup if you know what your doing - some will even do management for a small fee providing weekly updates, patching, etc.

 

[Chicken #16]

if you know what you're doing

yeah well.....not really


Its for a small organisation website with a shop superglued on.

We use contribute a lot and don't really have anyone overly sure about this.

 

[atmax1]

cheers...what I suspected.
http://www.ccsleeds.co.uk/webhost4-info.html

option 4 is £25 per month and I think does everything we want

any others to look at?

That is still overpriced lol, I do hosting and I offer a lot cheaper then that lool so does many well known people.

 

[malef!c]

Is that fully managed with a quick turnaround of all requests?
If not is well OTT (and if they do everything in seconds for you whilst bowing at your feet its still pricey!)

Look at places like TSOHost / Vidahost etc and you can get a years hosting for half of a monthly payment to that mob!!

 

[unwashed potato!]

Vidahost

i'm surprised that it took so long for them to get mentioned. check them out and you'll be very happy with their prices and service. one of the guys from vidahost sometimes sprouts onto these forums as well and is has bean very helpful in the past.

 

[Chicken #16]

the sad thing is we've been paying this for nearly 4 years

I use Be broadband so when i heard how much we were paying for internet alarm bells started ringing.

I think all we need is in that quote (including two internet connections - one near Manchester and one in London)

 

[Beansprout]

i'm surprised that it took so long for them to get mentioned. check them out and you'll be very happy with their prices and service. one of the guys from vidahost sometimes sprouts onto these forums as well and is has bean very helpful in the past.

Good use of the word sprout in context I like

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