hosting recommendations

[clactonmarie]

Hi
Can anyone recommend a reliable cheap hosting service? Looking for a package for under £25 per year. Windows.
Thanks in advance

[cw1865]

for a cheap/affordable server, how can you really beat godaddy on that one?

[clactonmarie]

Hi, thanks for that, i will look them up x

[MrGamm]

I don't even think GoDaddy is that cheap...

Go Daddy Windows hosting starts at around 6 bucks a month...

$74 Canadian dollars = $41 British pounds




Most other hosts are just as good and offer lower prices than GoDaddy...

Every single one of these linux hosting services is less than GoDaddy...

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Here's a windows host which starts at half the price of what GoDaddy is offering...

48 Canadian dollars = $26 British pounds

3Essentials: Shared Web Hosting. cPanel, PLESK, Linux, Windows, PHP, ASP.NET,MySQL, MSSQL

I've never used them... but... I'm sure there are many different ones who are way cheaper than GoDaddy... GoDaddy is expensive... I think they are still paying off those super bowl ads...

[speed]

I can't recommend any of these hosts but if you look through Shared Hosting Offers there's usually some good offers and a search of the forums there should give you an idea of problem ones.

[cw1865]

I've never used them... but... I'm sure there are many different ones who are way cheaper than GoDaddy... GoDaddy is expensive... I think they are still paying off those super bowl ads...

They would call me up from time to time and the last time they called, they gave a yearly @ $36 per year (USD). At the time the monthly I was paying was $3.99 per month (USD) which is $48 per year.....maybe they increased their prices in the interim.

Even at $6 per month, that is 19.7 cents per day.

At least with GoDaddy you know that they're large enough that even that small amount is seemingly able to fund their operations. Anything less than that and I start to wonder if the company is going to be around four months from now (and it did happen to me once).......

[MrGamm]

At least with GoDaddy you know that they're large enough that even that small amount is seemingly able to fund their operations.

I agree... You also have to wonder what kind of costs a company so large has to endure considering they are appealing to the lowest common denominator. Large are just as susceptible to folding as smaller ones. There are perhaps more smaller companies then lets say, Enrons... maybe that is the difference?

There is a huge amount of customer service they have to deal with. They also have a legion of enemies to deal with as well. The little guys can do it more economically...

It's not the hardware that costs money... it's the customers who cost money... jmo...


Anyways... this is supposed to be an unbiased review of hosting companies... Only started to visit recently...

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Also... it has happened to me before as well... I used to scrape the bottom of the barrel for the absolute cheapest possible host. I cannot claim that I ever watched them "go under" and disappear... nor was my service ever permanently cut off due to a bankruptcy... However... the customer service and downtime was something I could never deal with again...

[clactonmarie]

Thank you for your advice. Has anyone used 123-reg?

[kingofoverkill]

I have had good results with HostGator. You might check them out.

[Dinghus]

The thing about GoDaddy is that I can pack on as many websites as I want to (and domains) into 1 hosting package. I can crank out simple 1 or 2 page HTML sites in minutes with free hosting (yeh yeh, I get the GoDaddy logo stuff at the top but for those pages I don't care).

For what I get, I've found GoDaddy to be the best BUT they have some severe limitations for serious programmers. So the problem comes down to whether to remove limitiations but get less overall for more money or work with the limits and pay pennies per site?