My hosting company p*ssing me off - recommend an alternative
My hosting company p*ssing me off - recommend an alternative
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telford_mike

Original Poster:

1,221 posts

214 months

Thursday 18th March 2010
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Been with my current hosting company (UK2) for around 5 years, and their useless cpanel implementation and (worse still) their billing system is driving me crazy.

I have 1 block of webspace and 4 or 5 domains which share it. I use email redirection a lot (need 100+ addresses).

Can anyone recommend an alternative? My main website is a skiing club, so it's not like I'm running easyjet.com or anything, but I do need someone with good uptime and tech support (or a version of cpanel that actually works), and a billing system that works!

Oh yeah, if anyone can tell me how exactly I go about moving my domains that would be great!

Thanks,

Mike.

FunkyGibbon

3,857 posts

293 months

Thursday 18th March 2010
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Register1 - run by PHer Jamie Beeston

fridaypassion

11,457 posts

257 months

Thursday 18th March 2010
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I've ben through all these woes over the last few years with my site www.meganesport.net

We settled on EUK host after being annoyed/deleted/pissed off by various crap hosts.

Been with them for about 2 years now and never had a single problem.

-DeaDLocK-

3,368 posts

280 months

Thursday 18th March 2010
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Reg1 offers great service and support, but I just cannot get along with their flavour of Ensim control panel. Drives me nuts in fact. I find WHM/cPanel much more intuitive, but I must state that's just me and YMMV.

I have a couple of VDSes from Reg1 for sites that need to be hosted in the UK, so I can vouch for the reliability and support. But if you're a cPanel kinda guy, beware!

smile

JagPJ

293 posts

234 months

Thursday 18th March 2010
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I use Wiserhosting, never had any problems...

Iain328

14,968 posts

235 months

Friday 19th March 2010
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Used www.pair.com (US based) for the last 5 or 6 years without a problem. Very reliable & you get a lot for the money I think. You get discounts if you sign up for 12 months.

Edited by Iain328 on Friday 19th March 01:24

Famous Graham

26,553 posts

254 months

Friday 19th March 2010
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Another Register1.net client, and happy about it

Kinky

39,937 posts

298 months

Friday 19th March 2010
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Famous Graham said:
Another Register1.net client, and happy about it
And me - and the 20+ sites that I've got hosted there smile

anonymous-user

83 months

Friday 19th March 2010
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Reg1 one here, small glitch this week but rectified with total satisfaction(see thread elsewhere). I would echo the comments re:the control panel though, i find it very un-user friendly!

CrashTD

1,788 posts

233 months

Friday 19th March 2010
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Register1. They have the best customer service of any company I have ever dealt with and I was playing less than £50 a year.

Jamie I know your reading this so - Your support staff are a credit to your company

telford_mike

Original Poster:

1,221 posts

214 months

Friday 19th March 2010
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Thanks everyone - I've been in touch with Jamie and Reg1 seems to fit the bill very well smile

Stu R

21,627 posts

244 months

Friday 19th March 2010
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Another vote for Reg1, wouldn't dream of using anyone else smile

Ordinary_Chap

7,520 posts

272 months

Friday 19th March 2010
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Stu R said:
Another vote for Reg1, wouldn't dream of using anyone else smile
Yep another happy Reg1 customer.