Comments on: Some web-hosting advice, please…

By: Doug Belshaw

Doug Belshaw — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:57:24 +0000

I’m absolutely delighted with the fantastic customer service I’ve experienced in the last 24 hours. Carl managed to transfer all of my websites - Moodle, Wordpress (incl. MU), SMF forum - with multiple registrars and web hosts, effortlessly.

He’s an absolute legend and it’s the reason why - without being asked to and without referral incentives - I’ve put a badge on my site linking to the wonderful service CS New Media hosting provides.

(see bottom of sidebar for link)

By: Chris Craft

Chris Craft — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:06:19 +0000

Doug,

I’m glad you posted this. I’ve been having loads of issues with Bluehost lately, I suspect it’s growing pains.

I was looking into MediaTemple based on your earlier reccomendation but now I’ll look elsewhere. Sorry, Carl, in the US I think the load times might be sketchy. Plus, I don’t know how to convert your money to dollars to figure out how much it costs.

Chris

By: Carl @ CS New Media

Carl @ CS New Media — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:56:23 +0000

Cheques in the post for you all

Thanks!

By: Andrew Field

Andrew Field — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:05:38 +0000

Go to Carl - very good choice. Also, if you have a host who cannot handle .ch domains, you can always set it up as a DNS redirect. Thus you have an additional domain that your host does support and auto-redirect people from .ch. This isn’t just a basic top level transfer either - you can do it with direct links too.

MediaTemple are very good hosts, but you do pay for it.

I think what you do find with hosting, especially once you build up extensive traffic, is that you do very much get what you pay for. I use UnitedHosting.co.uk as their support is excellent (for example I posted a support ticket at 10:30 this evening, have had four replies and solutions within 20 minutes).

I think Carl can add value to UH’s hosting with his educational knowledge and experience too.

By: Doug Belshaw

Doug Belshaw — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:26:10 +0000

Thanks for the quick and useful comments, people! It looks like I’ll probably go with CSNewMedia as I’ve had dealings with Carl before, it’s UK based, he responded quickly to my questions this evening, and he’s promised to help with the transfer!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:22:19 +0000

Don’t go with streamline.net - it’s cheap and looks good, but the server uptime and sql uptime is awful.

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:35:18 +0000

I have a reseller account with Heart Internet, I host too many domains to remember and they’ve been fine so far. I moved across from Fasthosts earlier this year after some appalling service (and hidden extra charges) from them

By: mary cooch

mary cooch — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:20:16 +0000

Dave took the words out of my mouth!

By: Dave Stacey

Dave Stacey — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:30:17 +0000

I moved to CSNewmedia a while back after my previous webhosts couldn’t / wouldn’t accomodate moodle, and they’re now hosting five domains for me, plus the school website. Good value and excellent customer service. Don’t know about the .ch, but try emailing Carl and I’m sure if he can help you he will.

By: Mark Berthelemy

Mark Berthelemy — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:57:34 +0000

Hi Doug,

I’m not convinced about the UK-based servers argument. I use http://www.hostdime.com in the States for all my hosting, and have found it pretty good. If there ever are any problems their support response has been excellent.

It’s half the price of any UK-based webhost (but that’s a general rule - UK based hosting is way overpriced).

I use their reseller account, which lets me add as many domains as I wish. It’s $19.99 a month.