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Post by buggalugs on Aug 10, 2007 14:50:13 GMT 1
www.virtualnames.co.uk are offering 50MB space, 2.5GB per month bandwidth, 10 POP3 mailboxes and other frippery for £20 per annum. No adverts or popups to fund it either. Does that sound like a good deal or are there better around? If there are better please let me know before I cough up.
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Post by pyromaniac on Aug 12, 2007 13:51:15 GMT 1
About 5 years ago it was, now many hosts offer more for your money. eUKhost (whom I'm now using) have as their basic Copper hosting the following... - 200MB disk space - 2GB monthly bandwidth - Unlimited POP3 - PHP, Perl, and Ruby on Rails support - MySQL databases (handy for hosting forums) ...all for £22.99 www.eukhost.com/packages.php. Whilst they're basic package does give a bit less bandwidth overall I'd say it's better value for money. Personally I've only used 560Mb of bandwidth so far this month on StNeotsFC.com, which means I'll probably end up using 1.5Gb at most by the end of this month. I find they're support to be good, as they have their own forums, livechat, and support tickets. The VirtualNames website seems to be rather expensive when it comes to registering domain names. Sites such as www.ukreg.com offer domain registration at £2.95 for UK domains (+VAT) and £8.99 for globals domains (+VAT). |
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Post by jamie on Aug 24, 2007 10:46:47 GMT 1
Try www.bigwetfish.co.uk. * 800mb Web Space * Free Domain Name * 30 MySQL Databasea * 500 Pop3 email accounts * 100GB Bandwidth per month £15.99 Per Year - Cant go wrong, Its what I use for sites and UCL Chatter  |
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Post by buggalugs on Aug 24, 2007 17:31:51 GMT 1
Jeeze that IS a good deal
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Post by pyromaniac on Aug 27, 2007 15:07:35 GMT 1
One slight concern I'd have with BigWetFish is that their 'Terms of Service' and 'Privacy Policy' pages are missing or at least the links in the footers produce page not found errors. Always slightly concerning when you can't scan through the terms, it would seem there are a few other dead links present on the site.
Also worth noting that support should always be an important factor in choosing a host, as when things go wrong you want them to be able to help resolve the problem fairly quickly.
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