Hosting Question - Cheapest UK decent host
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£5 per year for hosting is not going to get you very far. A domain name itself costs around £4.99 per year, so not sure where you'll find web hosting for £5 per year. As a guide 123reg provide a basic hosting packaging for £2.49 per month and a business package for £4.16 per month.
We use heartinternet to host all our websites on a reseller platform. We charge around £6.99 per month for hosting but it gives you a lot more than basic hosting packages. Heartinternet's basic hosting package is the same price as 123regs package. It also includes 1-click installations of wordpress, joomla, drupal and other open source cms.
Have a look at the following hosting companies:
We use heartinternet to host all our websites on a reseller platform. We charge around £6.99 per month for hosting but it gives you a lot more than basic hosting packages. Heartinternet's basic hosting package is the same price as 123regs package. It also includes 1-click installations of wordpress, joomla, drupal and other open source cms.
Have a look at the following hosting companies:
- Heartinternet
- 123reg
- FastHosts
- GoDaddy (in my opinion this is probably the worst one to go with)
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Budget is pretty low I feel, we do offer shared hosting starting from 14.99 GBP per year, with one click auto-installer for wordpress & joomla if you are interested take a look at : http://webhost.uk.net/shared_hosting.html
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Faevilangel
What Matt said, cheap doesn't mean good and you will spend far more time sorting issues than working on the website...
If you want to pay around £5 a year look at the stupidly cheap American hosts but prepared for lots of downtime and no support.
Most hosts will offer some form of hosting from around £15 a year, or buy a larger package of sites (some hosts will let you host 6 sites for £40 a year), put all your sites on there and share the cost between them.
£5 will barely get you a pint around here so you need to put your budget up by quite a bit to get anything semi-decent imho
If you want to pay around £5 a year look at the stupidly cheap American hosts but prepared for lots of downtime and no support.
Most hosts will offer some form of hosting from around £15 a year, or buy a larger package of sites (some hosts will let you host 6 sites for £40 a year), put all your sites on there and share the cost between them.
£5 will barely get you a pint around here so you need to put your budget up by quite a bit to get anything semi-decent imho
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- Original Poster
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Anyway, found one for £8.99/ per year.
Like I said guys, it doesn't need to be an awesome host, just needs to be live, decent service and in the UK.
You can find this, its really not overly difficult, they do probably have a lot of people on the hosting but its only a small (relatively unimportant) site, used for SEO pruposes and not other.
Like I said guys, it doesn't need to be an awesome host, just needs to be live, decent service and in the UK.
You can find this, its really not overly difficult, they do probably have a lot of people on the hosting but its only a small (relatively unimportant) site, used for SEO pruposes and not other.
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£5-10 per year? ...
are you sure that you want to have to have an online business? .. I guess it is a business website..nevertheless - gl
Helmuts
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- Original Poster
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Options I looked at as I think people have been brainwashed into thinking hosting should be expensive:
1.) £12 per year
2.) £7 per year
3.) $17.70 per year
4.) £15 per year
5.) $25 per year
6.) £8.99 per year
All were offers but are a lot cheaper than what everyone on here "expects"
1.) £12 per year
2.) £7 per year
3.) $17.70 per year
4.) £15 per year
5.) $25 per year
6.) £8.99 per year
All were offers but are a lot cheaper than what everyone on here "expects"
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Faevilangel
It's not what we expect but for £9 you're just going to get a poor hosting solution, it's not commercially viable to offer hosting that cheap without major corners being cut and the servers being oversold.
On offers I could easily pick up hosting for $1 a month (60p) but I know it will be shockingly bad.
You can pick up reliable hosting for less than £20 inc vat, is the extra £11 saved worth it?
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This is the point. Trying to save £11 (or £20 or whatever) a year on necessary, core business expenses! If you need to save this your business needs Holby City not hosting.
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Then said "hosting company" (more than likely a teenager with a server, wanting to make a bit of pocket money) disappears along with all of the site content/data too when the bills go unpaid....
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No, it'll be in their dad's garage on the end of a dubious ADSL connection. The "server" will be a PC their uncle threw out 7 years ago, and hasn't been updated since CentOS4.
The single disc is beginning to click a bit ...
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Like others have said you will struggle to get a decent host at £5 per year.
I have a heartinternet reseller account which costs about £29.99 per month with unlimited hosting of domains. You can then charge the client what you want and make your own packages to suit. The support you get from them is also great.
Gerry
I have a heartinternet reseller account which costs about £29.99 per month with unlimited hosting of domains. You can then charge the client what you want and make your own packages to suit. The support you get from them is also great.
Gerry
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As others have said, it just comes down to whether you want support and reliability or not. If your hosting is just for playing around and reliability isn't essential, then a very cheap package like that *might* work for you.
If a hosting company is only charging a few quid a year for a hosting package, then it's not going to be in their interest to spend any time supporting you or investing heavily in decent technology
We don't charge ' expensive amounts' but it's enough to ensure that we can financially afford to give our clients peace of mind that we are always available if they need us, that we'll know their sites and how they need them to work and that we'll have a solid platform in place for them to use.
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Matthew : TekHive Hosting
Our cheapest package is £12 pear year, we currently have a 60% off promotion which now makes our cheapest package just £4.80 per year.
Web hosting for under £10 per year doesn't always mean a poor service, Tom mentioned its for an unimportant web site just for SEO purposes and not anything else.
Absolutely right you get what you pay for, so why pay for e.g £10.99 a month for "unlimited" hosting or a high amount of disk space when in fact you're only going to be using 500mb?
Web hosting for under £10 per year doesn't always mean a poor service, Tom mentioned its for an unimportant web site just for SEO purposes and not anything else.
Absolutely right you get what you pay for, so why pay for e.g £10.99 a month for "unlimited" hosting or a high amount of disk space when in fact you're only going to be using 500mb?
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If it's a promo then fine - we do £1/first year on UKBF from time to time and that definitely loses us money
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Yep - equally we often give a year's free hosting with any design work or we offer 6 month trials for people testing the water with a business website that we lose out on sometimes if they choose not to continue.
However, selling consistently at those sort of prices isn't a market that we try and compete with or would want to really. Not knocking it all, it works well for some larger companies and for end users who don't feel they need much support.
We prefer to work with our business hosting clients as individuals and in turn they appreciate being able to ring up and all the team know instantly who they are, what type of site they have and how it should be working without them having to explain anything.
However, selling consistently at those sort of prices isn't a market that we try and compete with or would want to really. Not knocking it all, it works well for some larger companies and for end users who don't feel they need much support.
We prefer to work with our business hosting clients as individuals and in turn they appreciate being able to ring up and all the team know instantly who they are, what type of site they have and how it should be working without them having to explain anything.
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VidahostHarry
What do you suspect @tombuckland?
IMO the best people to give advice on the subject are the people who know the industry best.
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Faevilangel
I don't own one but I have to deal with crap hosts almost every day as customers are enticed by the cheap cost but get a lack of support.
Anyone can throw a server together and call them a web host, but it's when something goes wrong that you sort the poor from the good and for £8 you're not going to get much support.
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Actually you don't "get what you pay for" in any purchasing including web hosting.
You can pay either a lot or a little money for either good or bad.
The secret of successful purchasing is to seek best value, which is usually not the cheapest price.
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