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UK Hosting companies..... 19th June 2011 11:07 PM

All depends on what you're after, dedicated server or shared?

Shared is tuppence hapenny from a zillion providers. Quality varies widely, and a lot of shared offerings have their servers overloaded. Also you are at the mercy of the other websites on the same server as you.

Personally I prefer dedicated servers, as you have more control. UK wise prices seem to vary from

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UK Hosting companies..... 19th June 2011 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by sjr4x4

“Maybe my standards are too high? Maybe I'm just really unlucky?

But why is it that UK hosting (and I mean hosters, not shared hosting cpanel resellers) is so expensive, but the quality so hit and miss?

We've just taken out a new dedicated server with Heart Internet, less than 2 weeks in, we have our first outage, "a routing issue". Lets hope it's our last

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Ok a couple of months in, we now have a catastrophic failure of MLS

Even better, no techies are available to investigate tonight, so we have to wait until tomorrow morning.... meanwhile our site is down!

Box has been up and down all day, so I do a reboot, and bizarrely somehow another server seems to have come back in it's place!!! Our URL shows us at a Cpanel warning page, which is great, as MLS doesn't even have cpanel installed!

Right deep breaths... shall see what tomorrow brings, but looks like I'll have to bite the bullet and move to Rackspace, even if they are ridiculously expensive.

While MLS was US based, we went years with out issue, a few months based in the UK, problem after problem, which is why we left the UK in the first place

Google getting even faster... 17th June 2011 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by Bliss Felton

“With no its premature to say anything.
Although we all are in love with Google but you never know.

Possibly we will be having Big F's search engine in hands sooner or later”

it's only a mater of time...

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Hard Day at the office. 17th June 2011 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by hdm

“Steve, what were you doing up at stupid o'clock? I guess you were on baby duty then.

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Lol yup, letting the good lady catch up on some sleep

Why sellers sell stuff at x9.9? 17th June 2011 11:01 PM

Yup age old marketing technique that taps into our sub conscious,

Go to see a film with money back guarantee!! 17th June 2011 10:57 PM

Well would have watched the trailer, but instead got..

Thanks for trying to access Flash Player. Unfortunately it is not available for your device because of restrictions that Apple has put in place...

Lol bloody iPad, at least now I know why I can't use Google analytics

Got to be honest, as a concept great idea, but not a film I'd want to go and watch at the cinema.

Is it possible to establish a business like a wholesale purchasing agent in China? 17th June 2011 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by XieJinmei

“Steve, how do you establish your first order with your agent?

Best Regards!
Xie”

Afraid I can't help there, never used an agent or imported anything

Hard Day at the office. 17th June 2011 3:02 AM

erm, guessing you had a bad day then...

There's always tomorrow

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Google getting even faster... 15th June 2011 11:53 PM

Interesting to see big G making big publicity by concentrating on search, ie speed and quality, removing the spotlight from some of their side projects.

With no major rival, makes optimising and marketing alot easier

Top 10 SEO Tips 14th June 2011 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by highlandspring

“Well I was at the Adsense seminar in Oxford last week and a lot of emphasis was put on speed.”

Our Adsense account manager told us the same a while back and speed was one of the major reasons we migrated our UK directory back to UK hosting from the US. Be interesting to know how much of an influence it really has on the algorithm, but guess we will never really know...