What web hosting company?

I use www.pabbwebhosting.co.uk. I have not had a problem with them at all, great service.

The major plus is they allow you to pay via paypal which is handy as i always have silly amounts in my paypal that aint worth taking out.

Its about £11 a month for unlimited everything (within reason obviously)
 
Beansprout said:
There will be a difference if you're loading lots of images on a page, because Dreamhost has a ~150ms ping wheras any company located in London should have a 10 - 20ms ping time, which makes a difference when you start loading lots of images :)

Also the different things there - they're just script autoinstallers for stuff like blogs, CMS software, forums etc - nothing much, but possibly handy if you'd like to mess about without manually installing. Most companies will provide such things - not sure about Dreamhost though.
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Dreamhost have a homegrown "one click install" system, it's pretty good but I usually just check out SVN builds of things.
 
Never ever choose a host that offers you "Unlimited" space and/or transfer.
That really is the only advice I personally can give you.
Other than that personal recommendations from people who actually use a particular host count 100x more than "My mate", "I've heard" and "This looks like a good deal".
Remember "Unlimited" is impossible - you cannot buy an unlimited size HD and bandwidth has to be paid for by somebody, your hosts are not unlimited.
So why start your relationship with a host that is lying from the very beginning by using the very much over-used "Unlimited" word?

I've recently moved to a new host - www.blurstorm.com
Using a special deal listed over at www.webhostingtalk.com I've got a great deal.
I've also got a host that has gone out of their way to provide me with support - moving all of my domains over from my old host to my new one for example for free, that kind of thing...above and beyond the call of duty...
 
robmiller said:
Dreamhost posted a nice blog post about how they have to oversell to possibly compete, but since most people don't use it they're fine - and since they have the hardware to back up most people using their full capacity, and are prepared (and able) to add more if they need to, they're better than most companies who oversell.
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Here it is ... http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/18/the-truth-about-overselling/

Last time I tried it the 777 promo code doesn't work anymore. I used "2Dollars99" which gave me their basic package for $35.88/year ($2.99/month) instead of $119.40/year.
 
JonRohan said:
so its not unlimited?
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It's just like a fair use policy. I've had gigs of bandwidth usage on my account over the last month and not had a problem, however nothing is ever unlimited.

Most "unlimited" ISP's have a fair use policy.


Anyway, i've never had a problem with pabbwebhosting.co.uk, suit my needs down to the ground. :)
 
I have accounts on both tsohost and register1.

Though register1 is more expensive it isn't as flexible as tsohost. Customer support and service on both is very good but I find I have better features on tsohost.
 
What ever you do don't go with computing host :O bought from them 2 days ago, had nothing but downtime and slowness :\

DanMc07 said:
http://www.computinghost.com/
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Beansprout said:
"Each page is manually optimized on our network!oneone!"

"You will feel a difference within a week!"

I want some of what they're smoking ;)
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Indeed! 99.9% uptime yet I had at least 10-15 downtimes within 2 days :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Read a lot of user reviews on lunarpages and they have nothing but praise for them!
If you enter the coupon code 25OffHosting you get $25 of the 1/2 year plans
So I've took the plunge too see how there hosting is compared to computing host. [both come with 30day money back garentea]
 
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Felix said:
US based hosting is a pain if you need to contact support...
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not entirely true. i have contacted LP a few times, got a response within minutes by email. There online live support is very fast too, excellent customer service imo.
 
DanMc07 said:
What ever you do don't go with computing host :O bought from them 2 days ago, had nothing but downtime and slowness :\
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Aye. Glad you learnt your lesson fast.

LP are a half-decent choice so far as I'm aware - I know nothing about them to give excess praise or waryness :)
 
Concorde Rules said:
k1z.com
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looks cheap to me.

I think people have got to weigh up what they need. If you're an experienced web designer and you know how to use reseller accounts, a lot of php, mysql databasing ... then perhaps you will want something like dreamhost where you have what you want, you know what you are doing, and the price is cheap.

But for those who need something with more support, i.e. I got a problem, did I set something wrong? you gotta look elsewhere.
 
Felix said:
US based hosting is a pain if you need to contact support...
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Rubbish.

The 5-6 hour time difference (or thereabouts) actually makes it better to go for a US host as opposed to one in the UK based on customer support. If a host only offers customer support during working hours; you'll be at school/college/university/work and by the time you get home a UK host will have shut up shop for the day. On the other hand, get home at 5PM BST and it will be midday over in the states. If your database goes kaput at 10PM BST you won't have any luck with a UK host, but a US host will still be offering customer support at that time. The only time you won't be able to get support is overnight; when you're asleep.

Of course you may find it tricky to get phone support (although who doesn't have a few US telephone numbers and a VoIP service, these days?), but as far as email or ticket-based support goes; you're sorted :)
 
Just been on the phone support with lunarpages, very helpful, they phoned me from the us, call was free, problem sorted within 5 minutes, cant get much better than that.

So to say that there support is a pain, not true, well not with this one :D
 
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