Commercial website hosting- recommendations needed
Discussion
(posted in here to get more feedback)
i have a website for my business which i need hosting- it'll be the first website i have ever had hosted and i need smoe help.
does anyone know of a company which is reliable, secure and professional (whilst not being too expensive) but will also help make sure my website is found if someone goes looking for it?
i have a website for my business which i need hosting- it'll be the first website i have ever had hosted and i need smoe help.
does anyone know of a company which is reliable, secure and professional (whilst not being too expensive) but will also help make sure my website is found if someone goes looking for it?
Hello.
I have a friend who runs www.ancilehosting.co.uk.
Very good serice and i've never had any issues.
David
I have a friend who runs www.ancilehosting.co.uk.
Very good serice and i've never had any issues.
David
Hosting is different from making your website appear in search engines.
Hosting - www.register1.net - run by a PH'er and bloody excellent.
Search engines - don't be fooled by the "we guarantee you results" brigade, they are talking bo
ocks. Good quality, semantically correct code, sensible title tags, image alt tags, inbound and outbound links etc. is what it's all about.
Hosting - www.register1.net - run by a PH'er and bloody excellent.
Search engines - don't be fooled by the "we guarantee you results" brigade, they are talking bo
ocks. Good quality, semantically correct code, sensible title tags, image alt tags, inbound and outbound links etc. is what it's all about. 
just click the banner top right miniman said:
Hosting is different from making your website appear in search engines.
Hosting - www.register1.net - run by a PH'er and bloody excellent.
Search engines - don't be fooled by the "we guarantee you results" brigade, they are talking boocks. Good quality, semantically correct code, sensible title tags, image alt tags, inbound and outbound links etc. is what it's all about.
great feedback- i guess what i should have said is that i don't just want a hosting company but i want a web architect and hosting Co who can provide the above- i have a web designer who has deisgned the layout and function of the website- now i need a company to make it all work properly. Hosting - www.register1.net - run by a PH'er and bloody excellent.
Search engines - don't be fooled by the "we guarantee you results" brigade, they are talking bo
ocks. Good quality, semantically correct code, sensible title tags, image alt tags, inbound and outbound links etc. is what it's all about. pugwash4x4 said:
miniman said:
Hosting is different from making your website appear in search engines.
Hosting - www.register1.net - run by a PH'er and bloody excellent.
Search engines - don't be fooled by the "we guarantee you results" brigade, they are talking boocks. Good quality, semantically correct code, sensible title tags, image alt tags, inbound and outbound links etc. is what it's all about.
great feedback- i guess what i should have said is that i don't just want a hosting company but i want a web architect and hosting Co who can provide the above- i have a web designer who has deisgned the layout and function of the website- now i need a company to make it all work properly. Hosting - www.register1.net - run by a PH'er and bloody excellent.
Search engines - don't be fooled by the "we guarantee you results" brigade, they are talking bo
ocks. Good quality, semantically correct code, sensible title tags, image alt tags, inbound and outbound links etc. is what it's all about. J
There is only one choice,
http://www.rackspace.co.uk/
I have run managed services on various hosting companies servers but the main metric of how good they are is how they respond when it all goes tits up.
Rackspace are spot on, can't recommend them enough.
Sean
http://www.rackspace.co.uk/
I have run managed services on various hosting companies servers but the main metric of how good they are is how they respond when it all goes tits up.
Rackspace are spot on, can't recommend them enough.
Sean
JamieBeeston said:
GhostyDog said:
There is only one choice,
Sean
Sean
bless.. so they've 'died' a fair few times then for you to be that happy with how they deal with it? 
ups 
and the ups of dumbass contract developers who never document the passwords of mysql databases they setup on the server and then have a nervous breakdown and disappear without trace, it's nice to have sympathetic support who know what they are doing with root access to your box in these situations rather than an eejit in bangalore reading stuff off a screen.Edited by GhostyDog on Tuesday 4th September 18:52
Edited by GhostyDog on Tuesday 4th September 18:55
Fight, fight fight fight........................... http://www.geminiwebhosting.co.uk
Edited by jamesuk28 on Friday 7th December 16:41
On a serious note, we have just put a 2 rack install in for an interesting organisation (global, very well known, good brand etc). We had to use one of the larger hosting providers (sorry J I did try, and I'm not saying you are small, oh dear where is this going ) anyway to cut a long story short the amount of help we have had to give them to resolve simple problems is astounding, fine they have lots of staff, but us seems they have little actual knowledge. And they are not cheap either!
D
) anyway to cut a long story short the amount of help we have had to give them to resolve simple problems is astounding, fine they have lots of staff, but us seems they have little actual knowledge. And they are not cheap either!D
So you have a website design that's been produced by a designer but you are now seeking a web architect to make it all work? Do you mean that the designer has produced a design and a specification for functionality and you are looking for someone/a company that can translate that specification into code to actually implement the functionality or do you mean you have all of that and you need someone/a company to implement/deploy the site?
If it's the latter do you know/can you tell us what platform the functionality has been implemented on e.g. ASP.NET/SQL Server/Windows or PHP/MYSQL etc
If it's the latter do you know/can you tell us what platform the functionality has been implemented on e.g. ASP.NET/SQL Server/Windows or PHP/MYSQL etc
davidd said:
On a serious note, we have just put a 2 rack install in for an interesting organisation (global, very well known, good brand etc). We had to use one of the larger hosting providers (sorry J I did try, and I'm not saying you are small, oh dear where is this going ) anyway to cut a long story short the amount of help we have had to give them to resolve simple problems is astounding, fine they have lots of staff, but us seems they have little actual knowledge. And they are not cheap either!
D
Aye, this is the way.. the larger they get, the less customer focussed they become, and typically the less skillful their support becomes.. up to the point they outsource it all to some far flung land.) anyway to cut a long story short the amount of help we have had to give them to resolve simple problems is astounding, fine they have lots of staff, but us seems they have little actual knowledge. And they are not cheap either!D
Customer service is the Key, it means you have next to no churn which gives you the best base to grow grow and grow.
J
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