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tombuckland

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Title pretty much says it all but I'm looking for shared UK based hosting at around £5 p/y something like that. That also allows quick installation of wordpress, joomla and all those.

Any help, links or info are appreciated.

Thanks
Tom.
 
Hello Tom,

We currently have a 60% off recurring promotion running with a free upgrade to the next package, we also have softaculous which allows quick installations on some of the most popular scripts.

Let me know if we can be of any help.

Best regards,
 
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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:
  • Heartinternet
  • 123reg
  • FastHosts
  • GoDaddy (in my opinion this is probably the worst one to go with)
out of the above GoDaddy provide a very cheap service, but you get what you pay for. I'd go for quality over a lower price.
 
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Do you mean per year or per month?

£5 per month is fine for a good host

Per year, you won't get anything decent
 
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That did cross my mind, hence my question as the post title sort of implied a single host but I was thinking is this was just data gathering excercise.
 
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james_firmsites said:
I'm guessing given he has SEO in his signature that he is looking at cheap microsites, not saying it will be effective in the least but would explain a desire to get ridiculously cheap hosting if your doing it a lot and want to spread them over many IP's
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More people like this guy needed. But you are bang on. Its not a money site, will generally be smaller sites with a few pages and just need some cheap hosting.
 
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To confirm - Shared hosting at around £5-8-10 a year. For a smaller site, but would need quick install for Joomla and wordpress and others.
Thanks
Tom.
 
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£5 per year is rather low.
If you are looking to install Wordpress and have basic knowledge make sure your hosting comes with eg cPanel and Softaculous or Fantastico so that you can easily install Wordpress on your domain in a few clicks.
All the best.
 
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£5 per year is too low for what you're after. Surely you can increase your hosting budget. Shared hosting starts at around £2.50 per month and this is with reputable hosting companies. Some even throw in a free domain name or give you a month or two free.
 
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tombuckland said:
Title pretty much says it all but I'm looking for shared UK based hosting at around £5 p/y something like that. That also allows quick installation of wordpress, joomla and all those.

Any help, links or info are appreciated.

Thanks
Tom.
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Cheapest = corners cut on infrastructure (servers, network) or support, and more than likely horribly overcrowded servers that do not perform well under any load.

Up your budget a little and get something that won't give you a constant headache.

Matt
 
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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
 
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I agree £5 will get you nothing but HASSLE! if your website isn't worth more than £5 per year, its probably not worth putting online! That being said if you look around u can get some very cheap US and EU hosts.. UK still costs that little bit more
 
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Keep the £5 per year, only hassle will be met. Cannot expect much service at all for that much. What will you be using the hosting for? If it's your business, isn't it worth more than that?
 
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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.
 
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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"
 
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tombuckland said:
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"
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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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Faevilangel said:
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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Nuno said:
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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WebHostingBuzz - Matt said:
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
 
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tombuckland said:
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"
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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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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?
 
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Matthew : TekHive Hosting said:
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?
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Exactly what I'm getting at.
And if these people commenting about "Poor" hosting actually read what I wrote, I said all the quotes I received were promotions by the company.
Price IS NOT the only indicator whether a hosting company is good or bad.
 
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tombuckland said:
Exactly what I'm getting at.
And if these people commenting about "Poor" hosting actually read what I wrote, I said all the quotes I received were promotions by the company.
Price IS NOT the only indicator whether a hosting company is good or bad.
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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.
 
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If price is your only decision-influence, perhaps try a free ad-supported service. Otherwise just to re-iterate that you get what you pay for; it goes for web hosting as it goes for everything else.
 
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tombuckland said:
Is it just me or does everyone in this thread have a hosting company?
And respond in a similar "you get what you pay for" type of way.....
Seems awfully suspicious to me.
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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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tombuckland said:
And respond in a similar "you get what you pay for" type of way.....
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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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