1 and 1 .co.uk anyone heard of them?
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JamieBeeston said:
jon- said:
Hello, Register1...Now what Podie?
As if by magic, the Shopkeeper appeared...How may I help?
JamieBeeston said:
It's just not optimal for something mission critical..
the further you are from your target audience, the slower and more problematic your connection to them becomes..
It also 'looks' bad..
Perception would be.. why would you host anywhere else apart for in the UK if you're a UK company with a UK audience except to be cheap.
anyway, anyone who needs servers or hosting, be it 'low cost' or blue chip commercial, check out my profile (or one of my banners in here!) 
J
Kind of depends on your mission really, doesn't it. I have connections to my machines globally. Hence, one is central europe, one is west coast USA, and one is in asia. The machine used depends on where exactly the device is going.the further you are from your target audience, the slower and more problematic your connection to them becomes..
It also 'looks' bad..
Perception would be.. why would you host anywhere else apart for in the UK if you're a UK company with a UK audience except to be cheap.
anyway, anyone who needs servers or hosting, be it 'low cost' or blue chip commercial, check out my profile (or one of my banners in here!) J
When I say mission critical, I don't mean the server is hosting some web content or database type activity. I mean it's dealing with dataflows that are very latency and jitter sensitive, and the transcode (where required) of said streams is somewhat expensive in CPU terms.
I could host the european box in the UK, but Germany is just as good. Besides, as long as it works, the end user has no idea where the server they're hanging off is....
jon- said:
Drop me a message off site and I'll reply. Always up for helping out a fellow PHer but it can't be at my expense so expect some tough questions from someone who's run their own hosting company
Dropped you an email..We've been hosting since 1999, have a £million+ turnover and work with some of the largest names on the planet..
Check profile for details.
J
JamieBeeston said:
jon- said:
Drop me a message off site and I'll reply. Always up for helping out a fellow PHer but it can't be at my expense so expect some tough questions from someone who's run their own hosting company
Dropped you an email..We've been hosting since 1999, have a £million+ turnover and work with some of the largest names on the planet..
Check profile for details.
J
Don't you hate it when people talk like this...
Why not do what I do...
Register1 for the domain registration. Very affordable & reliable.
Google Apps for the email. Free & works brilliantly. I use "ordinary" Googlemail for my personal email, and Google Apps for my photography business, and have not had any email problems since I started using Apps early - mid last year.
It's great having all your emails available wherever you are - laptop, home PC, PDA & mobile phone. All can access my email, and show all messages automatically (ie they sync automatically)
Hope that helps
Chris
Register1 for the domain registration. Very affordable & reliable.
Google Apps for the email. Free & works brilliantly. I use "ordinary" Googlemail for my personal email, and Google Apps for my photography business, and have not had any email problems since I started using Apps early - mid last year.
It's great having all your emails available wherever you are - laptop, home PC, PDA & mobile phone. All can access my email, and show all messages automatically (ie they sync automatically)
Hope that helps
Chris
1and1's email had a very public and unsatistfactory outage last year. I've had my email domain with them for a number of years. IMAP access was always fairly slow.
I've recently done what chris.mapey describes and configured 1and1 to point my domain's mail records to Google Apps ( http://www.google.com/a/ ) which gives me my domain email in a GMail web interface, IMAP and POP.
My web hosting is with Register1 though, and I'm another happy punter.
I've recently done what chris.mapey describes and configured 1and1 to point my domain's mail records to Google Apps ( http://www.google.com/a/ ) which gives me my domain email in a GMail web interface, IMAP and POP.
My web hosting is with Register1 though, and I'm another happy punter.
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