Hosting Help

Moved you to the IT forum

All depends what your after, traffic volume and size of your site. Options are:

dedicated - high traffic
VPS - medium traffic (virtual private server, basically an economy dedicated box)
Shared - low traffic

We use the The Planet for our dedicated boxes. Based in the US, but their datacentres and support are outstanding. (anyone who starts a "you have to based in the UK" comment risks a punch. )

We use Global Gold for our VPS server (ie this forum) Not been there long, but impressed so far, UK based, and support seems really good.

For cheap shared hosting, we use EZPZ Hosting. Very popular, cheap as chips, UK based and support seems good as well.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the reply and the moving of the thread to the right area. i will look into it later, the uk based host sounds good.
regards
Steve

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cheers, Paul

Second vote for ezpz hosting

I have used many hosting companies and these guys are the best by a mile!

Shameless plug here too... hope that's OK Steve

I fully understand the need to speak to someone and at your level, whether that be high/medium/low. We have customers at all levels and in that respect we can handle queries of all levels and can assist with migration from another host if required.

We offer UK based shared & managed hosting options (Windows and Linux with Plesk control panel). We aren't the cheapest but we incorporate our support in to our monthly or annual hosting packages and our customers stay with us long term not only because of our reliability but because we can always be reached on the end of the phone. If you are interested check out our website or if you have specific questions drop me a PM

Thanks,

Simon

hmmm...my personal experience is with Dreamhost. Not expensive and not cheap either -- but the service is great -- nice support, email or chat. They are also US based.



I know, by the time this is posted, you already set up you site somewhere -- but I gotta put my two pence in

hmmm, a hosting company with adsense all over the home page.... says it all....

And the adsense show where you can get hosting from.

i sugest you hostgator.com, i have vps from hostgator, there support is best in industry

thanks