Web/email Hosting advice
Discussion
As I'm shortly leaving uni, where I've had the same e-mail address for 7 years, I thought it might be a good time to set up a new account with e-mail and web hosting.
What I'm after is a small amount of webspace (25MB ish), and POP3 or (preferably) IMAP e-mail addresses (More than 1 would be good). I don't really want to spend too much cash, but I'm not averse to paying for a good service
I noticed www.easyspace.com do something along those lines, but with POP3 e-mail, and was wondering if anyone else had any recommendations?
What I'm after is a small amount of webspace (25MB ish), and POP3 or (preferably) IMAP e-mail addresses (More than 1 would be good). I don't really want to spend too much cash, but I'm not averse to paying for a good service
I noticed www.easyspace.com do something along those lines, but with POP3 e-mail, and was wondering if anyone else had any recommendations?
Cheers Ted,
I've narrowed it down to the following few suppliers (in order of my preference) and was wondering if anyone has any opinions on them/recommendations (usual naming and shaming rules apply etc)?
www.webhosting.uk.com/ - £19.99 p/a, does evrything I need, plus 5 IMAP accounts + webmail which is a bonus)
www.streamlinenet.co.uk/
and
www.gohosting.co.uk/ - both £23.99 p/a, seem to be identical,but streamlinenet seems the more professional site. Only do POP3 email accounts +webmail though. Plus side is they have 25MB more hosting than webhosting.co.uk, but do I really need more than 75MB? Edited to add: Oops, they are the same - both done by streamlinenet, just checked the small print
www.easily.co.uk/ - At £54.98 quite a bit more expensive (I don't want their cheapest option as it doesn't allow subdirectories for your webpage, and no ftp access). Plus side they are recommended by Petrolted
>> Edited by Fatboy on Wednesday 27th August 18:43
I've narrowed it down to the following few suppliers (in order of my preference) and was wondering if anyone has any opinions on them/recommendations (usual naming and shaming rules apply etc)?
www.webhosting.uk.com/ - £19.99 p/a, does evrything I need, plus 5 IMAP accounts + webmail which is a bonus)
www.streamlinenet.co.uk/
and
www.gohosting.co.uk/ - both £23.99 p/a, seem to be identical,but streamlinenet seems the more professional site. Only do POP3 email accounts +webmail though. Plus side is they have 25MB more hosting than webhosting.co.uk, but do I really need more than 75MB? Edited to add: Oops, they are the same - both done by streamlinenet, just checked the small print
www.easily.co.uk/ - At £54.98 quite a bit more expensive (I don't want their cheapest option as it doesn't allow subdirectories for your webpage, and no ftp access). Plus side they are recommended by Petrolted
>> Edited by Fatboy on Wednesday 27th August 18:43
miniman said:
Do you want a "fatboy@minispecial.com" or suchlike email address? I should be able to set that up for free...
Cheers for the offer mate, but I also need somewhere to host my website (pointless as it is
), and if I get one with multiple addresses possible I can set them up for my Brother and Mum without any hassle when they forget their passwords 
It's about 12MB at the moment, and will be growing as soon as I finish updating the mini build diary (I haven't found the time to update it since I put the rollcage in - too busy with PH and occasional work 
)
As soon as I get my thesis finished I was planning on getting right up to speed - probably about 20-25MB all in?
>> Edited by Fatboy on Wednesday 27th August 19:01
) As soon as I get my thesis finished I was planning on getting right up to speed - probably about 20-25MB all in?
>> Edited by Fatboy on Wednesday 27th August 19:01
Fatboy said:
Cheers Ted,
I've narrowed it down to the following few suppliers (in order of my preference) and was wondering if anyone has any opinions on them/recommendations (usual naming and shaming rules apply etc)?
www.webhosting.uk.com/ - £19.99 p/a, does evrything I need, plus 5 IMAP accounts + webmail which is a bonus)
www.streamlinenet.co.uk/
and
www.gohosting.co.uk/ - both £23.99 p/a, seem to be identical,but streamlinenet seems the more professional site. Only do POP3 email accounts +webmail though. Plus side is they have 25MB more hosting than webhosting.co.uk, but do I really need more than 75MB? Edited to add: Oops, they are the same - both done by streamlinenet, just checked the small print
www.easily.co.uk/ - At £54.98 quite a bit more expensive (I don't want their cheapest option as it doesn't allow subdirectories for your webpage, and no ftp access). Plus side they are recommended by Petrolted
>> Edited by Fatboy on Wednesday 27th August 18:43
i am with the webhostinguk one and it is fine, cheap, professional and you get telephone support too. all you need is your domain name and then go host a site
nevpugh308 said:
www.inetproducts.com do free Windows 2000 hosting
you talking about me again, we do indeed
P.S. it windows 2003 these days chap
>> Edited by dontlift on Wednesday 27th August 22:51
www.Register1.net
one of the companies in my group, aimed at the small / home user. Giving Quality in the Home Market.
uses a VDS, over the standard 'shared' model.
The difference being that you have your own deamons for everything (own apached, own httpd.conf, own php.ini, own sendmail.cf etc) all on a Shared Box..
Gives massive customisation options, for a portion of the dedicated costs.
AND, comes with a Free domain with one of the most powerful domain management control panels known to man (edit every detail going, address, contacts, Glue Records, Name Servers, Locking etc
:P
one of the companies in my group, aimed at the small / home user. Giving Quality in the Home Market.
uses a VDS, over the standard 'shared' model.
The difference being that you have your own deamons for everything (own apached, own httpd.conf, own php.ini, own sendmail.cf etc) all on a Shared Box..
Gives massive customisation options, for a portion of the dedicated costs.
AND, comes with a Free domain with one of the most powerful domain management control panels known to man (edit every detail going, address, contacts, Glue Records, Name Servers, Locking etc
:P
JamieBeeston said:
www.Register1.net
one of the companies in my group, aimed at the small / home user. Giving Quality in the Home Market.
Looks impressive, but way more than I need TBH.
dontlift said:
www.inetproducts.com do free Windows 2000 hosting
you talking about me again, we do indeed
P.S. it windows 2003 these days chap
>> Edited by dontlift on Wednesday 27th August 22:51
Looks very interesting - will read through carefully tommorrow when slighty more compus-mentus
Fatboy said:
www.Register1.net
one of the companies in my group, aimed at the small / home user. Giving Quality in the Home Market.
Looks impressive, but way more than I need TBH.
:P only a shade over £8 a month tho (annualy), inc a Free Domain
Overkill without Overpricing ;P
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