What Web Host?

What are your requirements and budget?

Personally I'd get a cheap VPS - you're looking at about £3-5 per month for 20GB storage, 512mb RAM and anything up to 1TB of bandwidth. Stick a basic centos or debian server on there with Virtualmin and you can host quite a lot of simple/low bandwidth websites, or just a few of more demanding ones.

You can get a cheap web host for £2-3 per month, but you're usually given arbitrary limits like 5 SQL databases, 2 domains etc... things which they have no need to limit but artificially do for marketing purposes.

That TSOHost, for example, charges £3/month for 2.5GB space, 20GB bandwidth and a maximum of 4 websites, or £15/year for 500mb space, 5GB bandwidth and 2 websites. With your own £3 VPS, however, you can get 20GB space, 1TB bandwidth and as many websites as your bandwidth can handle.

This is nothing against TSOHost (they may be very good, I've never heard of or used them) - but just an example of how you can get a lot more for the same money and a few hours setting things up.

It's a little more work, but you can do a lot more with it. Mine acts as a VPN so I can watch iPlayer while abroad, for a start.
 
Audigex said:
What are your requirements and budget?

Personally I'd get a cheap VPS - you're looking at about £3-5 per month for 20GB storage, 512mb RAM and anything up to 1TB of bandwidth. Stick a basic centos or debian server on there with Virtualmin and you can host quite a lot of simple/low bandwidth websites, or just a few of more demanding ones.

You can get a cheap web host for £2-3 per month, but you're usually given arbitrary limits like 5 SQL databases, 2 domains etc... things which they have no need to limit but artificially do for marketing purposes.

That TSOHost, for example, charges £3/month for 2.5GB space, 20GB bandwidth and a maximum of 4 websites, or £15/year for 500mb space, 5GB bandwidth and 2 websites. With your own £3 VPS, however, you can get 20GB space, 1TB bandwidth and as many websites as your bandwidth can handle.

This is nothing against TSOHost (they may be very good, I've never heard of or used them) - but just an example of how you can get a lot more for the same money and a few hours setting things up.

It's a little more work, but you can do a lot more with it. Mine acts as a VPN so I can watch iPlayer while abroad, for a start.
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Thanks for the suggestion / information. :) I'm totally new to this, so I guess I just need something very simple and quick to get started, so atm I'm of the opinion that a web host would be the better option (though I will remember a vps as an alternative for a future date).

I was going to sign up with Bluehost, but having to fork out for 36 months up front put me off - even though it was only for $3.95 p.m. What I'm after is something more flexible when it comes to how long I can sign up for, and that also has unlimited space.

Taking a look at justhost atm.
 
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I use Vidahost for UK web hosting. They are my favorite UK host and I find there support and websites speed pretty good. I'm only on the lowest package (£17 a year) but I am happy with what my account has been allocated and you can easily upgrade at any time to the next package for just a few pounds more.
 
jimjamuk said:
Vidahost - excellent customer service and quite cheap too
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Smoogels said:
I use Vidahost for UK web hosting. They are my favorite UK host and I find there support and websites speed pretty good. I'm only on the lowest package (£17 a year) but I am happy with what my account has been allocated and you can easily upgrade at any time to the next package for just a few pounds more.
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+1 for these guys ... brilliant, fast customer service. Have been with them for about four years now IIRC - I've only ever needed to contact them twice and each time I got a solution within ten minutes, which I didn't expect outside of high-end suppliers like Rackspace.
 
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