Magento hosting

[macmacman]

Hello.

I am considering who to host my magento website.

Uk based:
http://nubluemagento.co.uk/shared-ho...b-hosting.html
£6.99/month

America based:
http://www.crucialwebhost.com/hosting/
$20/month
They offer containers, what are these? Think they are dedicated servers.

Any tips?

Thanks in advance
George

[chalkie99]

Vidahost.com

UK hosts with great customer support from £17 + VAT per year .

Works fine with Magento and I believe they are members here too.

[macmacman]

Thanks. That is cheap, hopefully good value for money. I will give them a call.

[macmacman]

I use 1and1 for a couple of static sites and my emails.

Looks a bit tricky to install magento on thier servers:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/2019/

Has anyone had experience of how quick it is once it is installed?

I am tempted to use 1and1, just because i am paying for it already but ifs it hard to work with and not great for magento then I will purchase a new hosting package with a magento specialist.

[alphanumeric]

any host that runs php5 will be fine personally i would avoid 1and1.

[NuBlue]

any host that runs php5 will be fine

Not really true. Magento works 'best' on servers configured for Magento. Php 5 is the minimum requirement. And more importantly if you have never used it before YOU WILL have issues as it is not the easiest product to get to grips with so it is important you have a host that knows the common issues and how to solve them or you are likley to spend the rest of your life in an endless support queue

[alphanumeric]

installed and tested it a few times, never had any issues as of yet, tbh not made any live sites so would be interested to hear what the common issues are.

I am about to design about 10 of them over the next year or so, although they will all be going on a dedicated server, so i can customise it to how i want.

[emerchant]

I would also avoid 1&1 once had a few dealings with them with different companies I have worked for and the support was something out of this world (in fact it was on a different planet I think)

[eukhost]

Originally Posted by macmacman

I use 1and1 for a couple of static sites and my emails.

Looks a bit tricky to install magento on thier servers:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/2019/

Has anyone had experience of how quick it is once it is installed?

I am tempted to use 1and1, just because i am paying for it already but ifs it hard to work with and not great for magento then I will purchase a new hosting package with a magento specialist.

Magento works perfectly on all our cpanel shared servers. We host few magento websites on our servers. You can check our cPanel hosting plans at http://www.eukhost.com/cpanel-web-hosting.php

[Brian Bailey]

I host my Magento websites with United Hosting, based in the UK, and have been very pleased with both the performance of the servers and the support provided.