Domain Names and Webhosting.

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domainmonster.com easy to reg domains

as for hosting i duno, i host my own stuff though a co in usa as i need a fair bit on BW that you dont get in the UK cheep enough.

I'm with Supanames on their mid-host linux package.

£3.33 per month when two years are bought, 1.5GB space and 10GB monthly transfers, one domain, 5 mysql databases, choice of php4 or 5, phpmyadmin via CPanel, database backup scripts, perl & python, 10 sub-domains, 500 email accounts, spam filtering and virus protection, etc.

Don't be tempted by their cheaper packages, though - the servers can't cope with the loadings put upon them and I ended up having to upgrade. Absolutely no such problems with current package and one very satisfied customer here

Well I need to possibly host a forum, along with a web fronted, so will that restrain me in anyway?

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Originally Posted by Grinch

Well I need to possibly host a forum, along with a web fronted, so will that restrain me in anyway?

depends on load and BW used, this forum uses a fair bit.

Grinch, I'm with 1and1 you could give them a try.

Incredibly easy to add stuff to your package, nice easy(ish) control panel.

You wanna host a forum ... they offer it in one of their packages ... so it should be easy to set up (probably something like "include this HTML/code in your webpage", or just add some CGI scripts or stuff).

Only issue I could ever see with hosting a forum would be the amount of traffic - so might be worth just checking what limits there are (if any) on available bandwidth of site traffic.

Pete

Originally Posted by Grinch

Well thats aw-inspiring, the https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ website is down...

back up now....

[Spiderman]

www.fasthosts.co.uk are pretty good for hosting but nothing much more i'd say. they also do domain names thru a sub company called UK Reg but i know little about them.

DO NOT GET A DEDICATED SERVER from fasthosts tho cos they are utter crap, unsupported and they have a 3 day turn arouind time to any issues you have with it.

i tried telling them the other day that they were only suposed to turn off the Terminal Services on ours while i did some maintanence. They fluffed that up and when i called them to tell them they said "you'll have to respond to the email we sent you" the reason i called was to say they had turned off our mail service too and i couldnt access my emails.
"OK, i see" they says "can you put that in the reply to the email"

Originally Posted by Grinch

Well I need to possibly host a forum, along with a web fronted, so will that restrain me in anyway?

Wanna forum then all the decent ones use a mysql database.

Make sure that whatever package you go for you get at least two, one for a "live" site and one for backup/testing.

I run my whole website from a database using a CMS system; makes backups easy

[timwilky]

As most of the stuff I do is servlets/jsp etc I needed a hosting service that would give me control over a tomcat environment and with Oracle servers etc. Couldn't find one and as it is for development purposes I host my own from home.

So whilst bandwidth might not be brilliant, Reliability is excellent. Backups are done properly, scheduled maintenance is always communicated by me to me etc.

I don't expect a lot of bandwidth, and at first I don't really expect any at all as I will need to get the idea running. That even if I can think of something to fill it all up with, but we will see.