Web hosting for £3 a month - Skeptical

4p · 15 Mar 2014 at 22:03

Heyoo..

https://www.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk/web-hosting.php

Too good to be true? Anyone have experience with them?

Also as a side note.. Plesk or cPanel?

kitkat9933 · 16 Mar 2014 at 00:13

4p said:
Heyoo..

https://www.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk/web-hosting.php

Too good to be true? Anyone have experience with them?

Also as a side note.. Plesk or cPanel?

Seems to good to be true with unlimited traffic and space....

davido_labido · 16 Mar 2014 at 03:29

If it does work let me know...I'm up for it for that price!

Rroff · 16 Mar 2014 at 03:45

£3/m and unlimited pretty much means 100s of sites on one box. Friend of mine does (reliable) hosting for about that pricing but you'd only get single figure gigs a month of bandwith and disk space.

mtalk · 16 Mar 2014 at 04:22

Had very bad experience with unlimited provider in past, I will say avoid unlimited providers. Before signup check their TOS to know the truth as server space cannot be unlimited

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4p · 16 Mar 2014 at 10:54

mtalk said:
Had very bad experience with unlimited provider in past, I will say avoid unlimited providers. Before signup check their TOS to know the truth as server space cannot be unlimited .

Can't seem to find their TOS hmm

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Mar 2014 at 11:05

£3.00 a month is obviously £36.00 a year. With TSOHOST it's under £20.00 for the year. Keep in mind it's limited but there is no such thing as unlimited with providers. Just exactly what ISP's did not long ago.

davido_labido · 16 Mar 2014 at 11:45

mrbell1984 said:
£3.00 a month is obviously £24.00 a year. With TSOHOST it's under £20.00 for the year. Keep in mind it's limited but there is no such thing as unlimited with providers. Just exactly what ISP's did not long ago.

I thought it was obviously 36 quid a year

Il have a look at tsohost regardless though!

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Mar 2014 at 11:50

davido_labido said:
I thought it was obviously 36 quid a year

Il have a look at tsohost regardless though!

Maths fail. :/ anyway ai TSOHOST is a much better host guaranteed.

daz · 16 Mar 2014 at 12:43

The way that I've always explained it is with a restaurant analogy. "Unlimited" is equivalent to all you can eat and limited hosting is more like a la carte. Whilst many all you can eat restaurants can do a job and be perfectly adequate, in the main you're going to get better quality from the a la carte.

On Holiday · 16 Mar 2014 at 12:51

davido_labido · 16 Mar 2014 at 13:12

Ooou Yarwood, I'll be popping you a message on steam when I get home Tuesday/Wednesday.

I only want to make a small website for my sleeving so won't have much traffic at all really!

In fact bud, pop me a text if you still have my number, I banged a custom ROM on my phone again and lost your number -.-

thenewoc · 16 Mar 2014 at 13:19

The other thing you need to watch is how many concurrent connections they allow. You could have unlimited everything else but if only a handful of concurrent connections are possible then it isn't quite what it seems.

On Holiday · 16 Mar 2014 at 14:03

4p · 16 Mar 2014 at 14:04

YarwoodUK said:
My recommendation for cheap but great web-hosting service would be: www.namecheap.com.
Definitely avoid 1and1 if you were considering them.

Alternatively, if anybody wants free web-hosting with a cPanel account then trust me or add me on steam: "YarwoodUK".
Server is VERY highly over-specced for web-hosting and uptime is at least 99%. Server gets a total of 30TB bandwidth p/month and it's not even using 0.01% of that currently, has plenty of disk space so no need to worry there either.

As long as you don't start getting DDoSed then I'd be happy to host you.

(Hope I'm allowed to offer free webhosting to fellow OcUK'ers as I ask for nothing in return!)

Oooo lovely

I'm just playing with an idea atm so this would be wonderful instead of committing to a hosting company.

4p · 16 Mar 2014 at 14:17

Sent a request from two accounts, ignore the first one

melvis · 16 Mar 2014 at 16:33

Definitely avoid 1and1 if you were considering them.

This, ive never met a hosting provider where i had to explain what an MX record is to their 'DNS Expert' on the phone, until I met 1&1

bloodiedathame · 17 Mar 2014 at 00:51

I set up a reseller account so I could pay wholesale prices on web hosting myself. However I've ended up having 3 paying customers and have about 7 sites running off my own package.

The unlimited garb that gets added to my page doesn't mean unlimited at all. Can't remember what the limit was but I've never got near it.

My basic package is £2.70 - VAT...

Hxc · 17 Mar 2014 at 10:58

Plesk is a disaster compared to cPanel, or was a few years ago, was burnt by it and will never go back.

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Mar 2014 at 11:23

Hxc said:
Plesk is a disaster compared to cPanel, or was a few years ago, was burnt by it and will never go back.

I like the new cloud solution that TSOHOST offer. Really easy interface.