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Permalink Reply by Foe on January 9, 2009 at 6:34pm

i use www.one.com with no problems so far. dirt cheap... almost crack whore cheap.

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Permalink Reply by babycrow on January 9, 2009 at 7:31pm

nice, i love crack whores!

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Permalink Reply by Katie Hanratty on January 10, 2009 at 3:08am

I found www.110mb.com, its free hosting the only downside I can see at the moment is I think you have to have 100mb in your url but I think you can host up to 5 sites with one account and if you already have a domain you can probably use that also and it wont alter the url. I'm not 100% on that because Ive not figured it all out yet but worth a check any road, especially if its free, dont know many crack whores desperate to give it away that cheap!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Knight on January 12, 2009 at 10:23am

That is a BIG downside if you want to use the domain for anything approaching professional stuff. Dig a little deeper into your pockets!!

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Permalink Reply by Daniel James Diggle on January 11, 2009 at 4:20pm

UK2.net are the best I've ever used, pretty fair pricing too. And more importantly, very reliable. :)

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Permalink Reply by babycrow on January 11, 2009 at 7:17pm

cheers guys, i'll check them all out. your advice is appreciated!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Knight on January 12, 2009 at 10:35am

Like a lot of stuff you get what you pay for up to a point. If you don't need loads of features you can get cheap hosting. If your site uses a database for example you'll need more features.

Cheap hosting packages are all 'shared server' hosting. Ie. lots of sites on one server - nothing wrong with that, but you'll want decent processor speed in the server as it is dealing with lots of other stuff from the other sites. You are also at risk from other sites on the sames servers security errors. What does the host offer if say one site on the server sends out loads of spam and gets the server blacklisted with email companies. That then effects your email 'cos you're on the same server...

If you have a good host they should have measures in place to account for anything like this...

That said if you have a very simple site you don't really need to worry too much.

Before looking at price consider - security, Bandwidth (extra charges can mount up), storage - if you are planning to add lots of nice big images how much will you need. Are you planning to expand your site - will you be tied into a 18 month contract or can you expand/ change...

Some advice here

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Permalink Reply by babycrow on January 15, 2009 at 9:36pm

great! thanks a lot, that is really useful advice. It's quite a simple one page thing that I have at the mo but I may have plans to expand it at some point. cheers

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Permalink Reply by babycrow on January 29, 2009 at 1:37pm

Yo! Thanks again for all you help.

just to update, I went with 'justhost' in the end. I couldn't find anything bad about them on the web and they came top in a couple of toptens and were present in most of them. I even got in on a new year spesh which means its cheap too.

As I said, the website is a simple one for starters but does all I need it too at the mo.

checkit -

www.babycrow.co.uk

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Permalink Reply by Rob Millington on February 13, 2009 at 12:23pm

I used to use one.com - But after a year, they don't remind you that your domain is near for renewal, they just bill you, and no way out of it. (Very annoying if you have 2 or 3 domains and then over a year stop using one, as its gonna cost you money!)

For that reason, I don't use them anymore, I think its terrible service to do that with no get-out clause.

R

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