Web hosts

O.k,
Can anyone recommend a webhost?
I need PHP4 and mySQL ability. Also, i would like the option to upgrade to more diskspace and with a minimum of 30MB.
I would like a domain, not a subdomain.
I am willing to pay for it, but i cant afford alot.
Any recommendations?

Any hosts i should avoid because of bad experiences?

Please help,
Bye!

 

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what about that that I suggested?

btw- you forgot to mention that your host would be prefered to be based in UK - it would be less expensive to pay for your server then

 

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That one was not all that good,
ive found another one based in UK.
looking for them just now.
found some already. theres one that seems too good to be true.
http://www.hostsupreme.co.uk/hs_windows.php -abit expensive.

 

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Try:
www.oneandone.co.uk

They have servers based in Germany and the UK.
Costs are pretty low and go from just a webpage to dedicated machines, and no this wasn't a sponsored advert.

I would have used their dedicated's since they have recently come down in price (to about £30 a month) but they run Redhat 7.4 or 2000/XP when I'd rather use something else.

Dedicated systems you can build multiple sites etc, since you have control over the box.

 

thanks stryder.
Ive kinda went for:
http://www.bargainhost.co.uk

The Budget Pro option
Spec:
FREE Domain Name - ive went for .co.uk
50 megs web space
Unlimited POP3 email accounts
Webmail Account
Unlimited POP3 email forwarding
Sub Domains Manager
Unlimited POP3 Auto Responders
FrontPage 2000/2002 Extensions
Full CGI and Perl support
SSI (Server Side Includes)
No adverts or popups
PHP4 and 10 MYSQL Databases
File Manager
Control Panel Version 5
Graphical Stats
24/7 FTP access from any ISP
Hotlink Protection
2000 MegaBytes of Bandwidth

It should do me fine to start off with. Cost 22.99 GBR a year.
Can upgrade space when is neccessary.

registering my own domain name, ill give feedback on that when its registered. fingers crossed.

Cheers

 

Go with hostrocket.com
They have everything you need cheaply and are expandable.

 

You should note that 2Gb Bandwidth per month, because that is where either costs can appear or your website could be downed.

2000 Mb per month = 65,708,419 bytes (65.71Mb) per day
(thats basing a month on 30.4375 days an average for a year)

or

2,737,851 bytes (2.74Mb) per hour.

or

0,045,631 bytes (45.6Kb) per minute.

An approximate webpage load for just HTML is about 12kb, where graphics can take it to 50Kb's and beyond.

(2-4 Hits per min?, Make sure you read up on ROBOTS.txt and Spiders / robots / data mining, as this will help you save vital bandwidth.)

I mention this because if your site becomes busy (Namely if you have as many accesses as www.Sciforums.com), you could find your server suffering downtime.

Just note, with that bandwidth don't try running Chat rooms, and don't serve images from there that you put ona signature for a bulletin board as it will cause alot of loads of that image, eating your bandwidth.