My website hosting is due for renewal.

slipd · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:28

Hey guys,

My personal website is due for renewal and my hosts have just been in touch.

For 2 years I've been with Streamline.Net on their Power package. Apart from a few little MySQL niggles which were soon rectified, their service and support has been flawless; I couldn't have asked for more? The renewal is £65 for another two years (which, I guess includes further domain registration for another two years?) and I'm just wondering whether or not to hit Buy straight away, or is there anything much better out there for the money?

I can't imagine prices have changed that much in two years, £65 was a good price back then, but I just thought I'd check

Cheers,

SW.

Pilky01 · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:28

I use tso host who are really good

Basic package is £14.99 a year

tres · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:30

SurpassHosting for me - their support is second to none, I've reported server faults before that turned out to be my own website faults, and they've even fixed my own php scripts for me!

benjo · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:31

What sort of bandwidth does your site use? All the steamline packages say Un-restricted Bandwidth.

Just wondering because I use Vidahost, which is £59 for 1.5gb space and 50gb bandwidth, for a year.

suarve · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:37

Pilky01 said:
I use tso host who are really good

Basic package is £14.99 a year

+1

I'd double check that the domain reg is included in that price.

Guess it depends what you want though.

slipd · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:43

Thanks guys!

My site is basically centred on a .php forum with, when it's active, I'd say around 40-70 users using it simultaneously - nothing too strenuous

benjo - It would appear, in brief comparison, Vidahost are a bit on the pricey-side compared to SL?

SW.

tres · 5 Dec 2008 at 15:43

SurpassHosting

500gb space
Unmetered bandwidth
Cpanel
Fantastico
10 domains

(of course, it's shared hosting, but they're one of the biggest providers in the world, you'll never run out with them)

All for $4 a month

daz · 5 Dec 2008 at 15:52

sam.wheale said:
Hey guys,

My personal website is due for renewal and my hosts have just been in touch.

For 2 years I've been with Streamline.Net on their Power package. Apart from a few little MySQL niggles which were soon rectified, their service and support has been flawless; I couldn't have asked for more? The renewal is £65 for another two years (which, I guess includes further domain registration for another two years?) and I'm just wondering whether or not to hit Buy straight away, or is there anything much better out there for the money?

I can't imagine prices have changed that much in two years, £65 was a good price back then, but I just thought I'd check

Cheers,

SW.

That's a fair price - I know lots of people have problems with Streamline (who are a subsidary of Fasthosts, and just resell their products) but if you're happy with them then it's probably not worth moving.

killsta · 5 Dec 2008 at 16:00

Another one to look at is http://www.Register1.net

UK Host with their own network, have used them for years, and many other people on these forums are happy with them too

Beansprout · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:42

benjo said:
What sort of bandwidth does your site use? All the steamline packages say Un-restricted Bandwidth.

Just wondering because I use Vidahost, which is £59 for 1.5gb space and 50gb bandwidth, for a year.

2Gb now

And there might be a special offer or two on our homepage :cool:

DireEmblem · 5 Dec 2008 at 19:48

I use streamline as well, and just up for 2 years renewal, only problem I had is that when the site got too busy, they send you a warning email about your shared hosing taking to much of the server, so I moved it on to a more beefed up server.

Its a great site for initial startup, and I host my own site with them, would be interested in the results.