Website hosting etc

Delvis · 22 Jan 2018 at 16:11

Hi all,

Wanting to put a website together to showcase some artwork etc, Happy to upload WordPress to it and design that way myself.

Who's good for hosting at the moment? Domains?

Email might be handy for the future but I can always setup a Google account or something for the interim

Thanks all

Varwen · 22 Jan 2018 at 23:10

Mate had good things to say about one.com - cheap too!

EDIT - note on emails: if you're considering emails, godaddy seem to have one of the best webmail services - you'll probably pay a bit more for the domain/hosting if you get it all through them though. We offer emails with our reseller hosting packages, but have endless trouble with shared mailservers getting blacklisted. By far the best solution would be to get a reasonable hosting/domain package, and then run emails through a mail system like gsuite, office365 etc.

Glanza · 23 Jan 2018 at 09:23

1and1 offer built in Wordpress support.

On Holiday · 23 Jan 2018 at 09:36

Delvis · 23 Jan 2018 at 09:40

Thanks for the replies all they're appreciated.

@Plenty O'Toole - cheers for the offer, not intending to do anything right this second but may send you a message further down the line

I've used cpanel before so am reasonably familiar with it, WordPress support I'm it overly fussed about but it's always a bonus

antijoke · 23 Jan 2018 at 09:53

krystal.co.uk

dmsims · 24 Jan 2018 at 19:15

My personal site are on Mechanic Web (EU), business on Krystal (both Cpanel)

Steveocee · 25 Jan 2018 at 11:33

Krystal.co.uk for mine currently.

I'v recently moves away from tsohost, whilst they were brilliant with support, the site was non responsive quite often and even a fresh wordpress install (1 click install) was slow to navigae around.

Krystal are a breath of fresh air, I'm on the "basic" £3 per month option for 2 sites and they are both noticably faster and it has a full cPanel. The allowances aren't as bad as you think either as whilst it's "only" 5GB, it's actually 5GB for web space, 5GB for email, 5GB for SQL so you do actually get a fair bit.

sithlord · 26 Jan 2018 at 00:27

There some suggestions in the Vidahost thread, but I use Simplexwebs

Im happy with their speed and service for along time.

Shoeyuk · 4 Feb 2018 at 19:37

1and1 good for price and not had any issues with them.

Only thing I didn’t like is the calls to sell other services now and again although they have stop doing so recently