Best web hoster? Domain name reg? web reseller?

[Pieman]

Who are the best people to register a .co.uk address and a .com address

Who are the best hosting provider?

I have been looking at interservers.com through internic.co.uk?

These I know are difficult questions to answer and everyone provides differnet packages

Our web hosting is currently through demon.co.uk (split!), who seem to want to charge us for everthing. On a showroom account (dialup)+commercial space they recently told me I'd have to pay an extra £30 per year to have an already registered domain redirected?

I may want to register multiple sites with separate email etc so may want a hosting reseller solution. I suppose the facility for online merchandising and MySQL etc would be a must. Currently I can't run much beyond perl with demon.

Many thanks

regards

Pieman

[mclbruce]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pieman Who are the best people to register a .co.uk address and a .com address Who are the best hosting provider? These I know are difficult questions to answer...

Indeed!

I have an ISP about three blocks away from me. They provide excellent service and their prices are reasonable, if not the best. Many of my clients use them and are very happy because of the service and because they are buying locally. So one approach is to take a walk around the neighborhood and see what is available! :-)

Another is to search the web. I haven't had to do this lately, but there are one or two "rate the web hoster" sites that are pretty good. MacInTouch.com has been running a discussion about this recently under the title ".mac alternatives." I think that's worth a look as well.

[acme.mail.order]

Been using Apollo Hosting for two years now. Good rates (starting at £12/month in US$), everything including the kitchen sink, smart support staff. Check out their virtual private servers, root login without the usual expenses.

Extras are usually one-time charge items, on the theory that once they've done the work like a domain redirect it costs them nothing, so they don't hose you for it.

Servers are in Texas, 24hr support is in eastern Canada.

[rusto]

TotalChoiceHosting has been really good to me since I signed on with them last August. Seems to meet all of your requirements, reasonable pricing, shopping cart ability, mySQL, reseller services, and so on.

[Alex281]

Quote: Originally Posted by rusto TotalChoiceHosting has been really good to me since I signed on with them last August. Seems to meet all of your requirements, reasonable pricing, shopping cart ability, mySQL, reseller services, and so on.

I definitely second TotalChoiceHosting! they have been great to me.

[Pieman]

Quote: Originally Posted by rusto TotalChoiceHosting has been really good to me since I signed on with them last August. Seems to meet all of your requirements, reasonable pricing, shopping cart ability, mySQL, reseller services, and so on.

This company seem good although there server seems to be serving there pages somewhat pedestrian. Do you get sufficiently fast delivery of pages.

regards

Pieman

[rusto]

Granted, my simple site would probably not challenge the lowliest of servers so I have no indication. But apart from the speed issue (which I cannot attest to, but no one has complained) they have been very reliable and responsive to both problems and questions.

[daniel3625]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pieman Our web hosting is currently through demon.co.uk (split!), who seem to want to charge us for everthing. On a showroom account (dialup)+commercial space they recently told me I'd have to pay an extra £30 per year to have an already registered domain redirected?

You've really just gotta do u research. I think you'll find that most webhosting people will have a reasonable service. But pricewise you may have to to some shopping around comparing prices and watching out for special deals. Gd Luck!!

[glidefx]

www.webspacesolutions.com

good pricing, excellent service, all questions answered within about 20 mins usually. uptime of 100% so far.

[acme.mail.order]

As part of your research, contact the help desk and throw them some of the more complicated issues you expect to deal with. Any decent tech will have no problems answering pre-sales questions. I'm a big fan of live chat helpdesks (saves endless waiting on hold), but sometimes you get a department that can't think outside the script.

[Pieman]

I know its crazy given the current exchange rate and I don't want to offend any of the US members. But does anyone know of any European, Austrailian, Asian or non US servers as I am reluctant, even in a roundabout way, to give Bush or any of his cronies any more money than I have to.

regards

Pieman

[glidefx]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pieman I know its crazy given the current exchange rate and I don't want to offend any of the US members. But does anyone know of any European, Austrailian, Asian or non US servers as I am reluctant, even in a roundabout way, to give Bush or any of his cronies any more money than I have to. regards Pieman

I find it somewhat humorous that you say you dont want to offend any of the US members of the board and then proceed to call us cronies because of actions our President takes. =) Could have just stated you were looking for a non-american webserver instead and i am sure people would not have asked questions.

[waked1]

Give www.compila.com a try. I've used them for several years now and they're cheap, reliable and you can add just about any feature you could ask for in a web host.
Cheers,
Dunc.

[Edit] And they're UK based!!

[gayle28607]

I use IDCsoft, which I believe has its main office in Hong Kong. They are very reasonable ($60/year).

[Burnkid]

take a look at www.123reg.co.uk for a UK based service