Hosting - anyone using Webfusion?
Discussion
We have a fairly simple company website, probably a few ten's of megs of content, mostly .asp stuff, and a small-ish MS SQL database.
Average monthly bandwidth consumption is around 4-5gb.
Basically sod all in hosting terms.
We're currently with Mistral, and pay around £500 a year, there's some politics as to why we're with them, suffice to say we've had very few problems but it's up for renewal and we don't have to stick with them any more.
Looking around I believe we can get the service we have for around £10 a month. That's based on Webfusion's "Fusion Pro" package.
I've no real reason for looking at Webfusion other than a) it's Windows/asp/MS SQL hosting b) they're part of Pipex which is good or awful depending how you look at it, and c) they seem keenly priced.
As it's for business I'm quite keen to choose somewhere reliable and reputable, ideally not a reseller who is selling space on a dedicated server they themselves rely on someone else to host (just thinking what if it goes Pete Tong).
Average monthly bandwidth consumption is around 4-5gb.
Basically sod all in hosting terms.
We're currently with Mistral, and pay around £500 a year, there's some politics as to why we're with them, suffice to say we've had very few problems but it's up for renewal and we don't have to stick with them any more.
Looking around I believe we can get the service we have for around £10 a month. That's based on Webfusion's "Fusion Pro" package.
I've no real reason for looking at Webfusion other than a) it's Windows/asp/MS SQL hosting b) they're part of Pipex which is good or awful depending how you look at it, and c) they seem keenly priced.
As it's for business I'm quite keen to choose somewhere reliable and reputable, ideally not a reseller who is selling space on a dedicated server they themselves rely on someone else to host (just thinking what if it goes Pete Tong).
Not used Webfusion, but £10 a month to include MSSQL? Sounds way too cheap to me. I've got a couple of sites with Hostway and that link will take you to the cheapest Windows/ASP page with MSSQL and that's £20pm (or £200pa) which is pretty good. And can certainly recommend them.
Fairly certain R1 don't offer ASP/MSSQL unless on a dedicated server, which is quite possibly a little bit more expensive
Fairly certain R1 don't offer ASP/MSSQL unless on a dedicated server, which is quite possibly a little bit more expensive
Edited by .Flyer on Friday 20th July 18:03
Their customer support is rubbish. The customer service people couldnt give a dammn and lie. The staff are more worried about losing their jobs. In summary I wouldnt touch them with a 10ft barge pole. I am not sure if the hosting side of Pipex has been sold to Tiscali but the broadband arm certainly has.
Well I'm open to suggestions.
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to go "bargain basement", after all this is our company website, I'm just not convinced that £500 a year is actually buying us much in terms of added value over somewhere cheaper and theoretically just as reputable.
plasticpig - are you commenting specifically on an experience with Webfusion or "I've used Pipex, I thought they were crap, Webfusion are owned by Pipex so they must be crap" please?
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to go "bargain basement", after all this is our company website, I'm just not convinced that £500 a year is actually buying us much in terms of added value over somewhere cheaper and theoretically just as reputable.
plasticpig - are you commenting specifically on an experience with Webfusion or "I've used Pipex, I thought they were crap, Webfusion are owned by Pipex so they must be crap" please?
hutchingsp said:
Well I'm open to suggestions.
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to go "bargain basement", after all this is our company website, I'm just not convinced that £500 a year is actually buying us much in terms of added value over somewhere cheaper and theoretically just as reputable.
plasticpig - are you commenting specifically on an experience with Webfusion or "I've used Pipex, I thought they were crap, Webfusion are owned by Pipex so they must be crap" please?
I am commenting specificaly on Webfusion. They were a lot better when they werent part of PIPEX. Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to go "bargain basement", after all this is our company website, I'm just not convinced that £500 a year is actually buying us much in terms of added value over somewhere cheaper and theoretically just as reputable.
plasticpig - are you commenting specifically on an experience with Webfusion or "I've used Pipex, I thought they were crap, Webfusion are owned by Pipex so they must be crap" please?
plasticpig said:
I am commenting specificaly on Webfusion. They were a lot better when they werent part of PIPEX.
Cool thanks, read enough other comments/reviews to kind of put me off tbh.Someone else suggested Catalyst2 or NTT Europe, not sure if anyone's any experience with those?
Edited by hutchingsp on Saturday 21st July 16:12
plasticpig said:
hutchingsp said:
Well I'm open to suggestions.
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to go "bargain basement", after all this is our company website, I'm just not convinced that £500 a year is actually buying us much in terms of added value over somewhere cheaper and theoretically just as reputable.
plasticpig - are you commenting specifically on an experience with Webfusion or "I've used Pipex, I thought they were crap, Webfusion are owned by Pipex so they must be crap" please?
I am commenting specificaly on Webfusion. They were a lot better when they werent part of PIPEX. Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to go "bargain basement", after all this is our company website, I'm just not convinced that £500 a year is actually buying us much in terms of added value over somewhere cheaper and theoretically just as reputable.
plasticpig - are you commenting specifically on an experience with Webfusion or "I've used Pipex, I thought they were crap, Webfusion are owned by Pipex so they must be crap" please?
Using R1 for business stuff now and will move my personal stuff there at some point this year too, but as said, the platform you're after isn't available.
At the moment through being sad and spending far too much time digging around, if we move I think it'll be either Wyre Forest Computer Services or Catalyst2.
As someone pointed out somewhere else £500 isn't much in the company scheme of things, but a) I'm a geek so it's my job to try and make sure we're using the best solution and b) I don't take the view of simply keep renewing without looking at the alternatives.
As someone pointed out somewhere else £500 isn't much in the company scheme of things, but a) I'm a geek so it's my job to try and make sure we're using the best solution and b) I don't take the view of simply keep renewing without looking at the alternatives.
hutchingsp said:
At the moment through being sad and spending far too much time digging around, if we move I think it'll be either Wyre Forest Computer Services or Catalyst2.
As someone pointed out somewhere else £500 isn't much in the company scheme of things, but a) I'm a geek so it's my job to try and make sure we're using the best solution and b) I don't take the view of simply keep renewing without looking at the alternatives.
Hi Paul As someone pointed out somewhere else £500 isn't much in the company scheme of things, but a) I'm a geek so it's my job to try and make sure we're using the best solution and b) I don't take the view of simply keep renewing without looking at the alternatives.
Just to throw it out there.
Register1 Dedicated Servers are available from £49 per month (three year deal!) or £69 a month (PAYG Monthly Contract!)
You're welcome to install your own Windows and SQL with no cost if you prefer!
DualCore Xeon, 1Gb ram!
Far far better then shared hosting!
J
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