Website hosting - basics and bandwidth questions

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I've exceeded my bandwidth quota on jonny69.co.uk again so it's time to do something about it. I'm a complete noob on stuff like this so I've got some really basic questions.

The domain name and hosting are both with 123-reg.co.uk at the moment and I think I'll be wanting to move from them to a host that allows more bandwidth. 123-reg are fine for starter packages but they get expensive when you need traffic and I am going to need about 6Gb or more per month because of hosting images on various forums. Any recommendations? Alternatively are there any online file hosters like dropfile.net that allow ftp access from FireFTP etc?

I've still got a year subscription with the domain name at 123-reg, how do you point a domain at a seperate web host?
 
Immsy said:
You can update the nameservers for the domain name to point it to another host. The 123 reg control panel should allow that.
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It does yeah, then just use the new hosts control panel to "park" or "point" the domain to your hosting account. Might take a day or two for the DNS changes to propogate but it's an easy job.
 
Looking good then :)

25Gb seems like a lot for £29 per year. Are they reliable?
 
Vidahost seem reliable, I get 5TB of bandwidth with my dreamhost account which cost me £11 for a year. Although realistically they would never let me use that much bandwidth on a shared hosting account. Probably because most the people using shared hosting are just average users and just host a few HTML sites and images. Some people might say that dreamhost does not seem reliable but I have never had a problem with them so far. I have been with them for about 6 or 7 months now :).
 
I would suggest dreamhost, although your looking at about £35/year. you can get some pretty mental deals with discount codes there.
 
Dreamhost are pretty good for the price. As 1337z0r said they give your 5TB per month bandwidth that increases by 40GB each week you are with them and 500GB storage that increases by 2GB. Don't be put off by the cheap price. I have a server with them and they are brilliant. I absolutely love their web panel too :).

Only Drawback I have found with them is, because they are in the USA there is a slightly longer loading time of pages. but nothing serious.
 
Shame to see Dreamhost's ridiculous marketing working.
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Got it sorted with Vidahost starter package, looks like it'll do what I need and it's run by someone we all know as well ;)
 
daz said:
Shame to see Dreamhost's ridiculous marketing working.
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At least someone here agrees with me. Whenever I try to argue in threads about Dreamhost all I get back is THEY OFFER SO MUCH FOR THE MONEY.

Dreamhost are complete trash.
 
It's like buying 10KG of tesco value 28% fat minced beef, when you don't need anywhere near that much and 2KG of tesco finest 5% fat steak mince would cost the same but taste much nicer.
 
If hosts gave out details of the actual usage of their accounts, I think people would be very surprised.

Many people choose hosts like Dreamhost because they offer 'so much' so it's therefore 'better value for money' but, as daz says....is it better value for money if you're never going to use it?
 
Although I like dreamhost I would never use their hosting for any of my live sites as they tend to be a bit slow for me. I just got one of their hosting packages because it was cheap and I might as well. Use it as a test server just.

Register1 is what I use for my main websites, never had any problems with them and they even answer your support questions at 3am :D
 
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