Need help choosing a Web Host.

[Ap0llo]

Hi there,
Having a bit of a problem at the moment...

Basically i have 5 websites, 4 of them use 30gb bandwidth but one of them uses about 400gb bandwidth. The site that uses 400gb bandwidth a month is centainly on the UP so i'd like a bit of head room for it as it expands, also it uses a mahoosize 712mb ram on average

The problem im facing is that is now getting very costly as im running the plans on different hosting packages...its also beggining to be a bitch to manage

Can anyone find me a decent web hosting package where i can put all my websites under one roof. The main features i'd need is it has to be Linux based, ity must have MYSQL support, and preferlably running Cpanel.

The budget is about £40 a month for a hosting package.

The other option i suppose would be to build a server and send it to BlueSqure data centre, but this would cost me £55 for the server hosting there

Cheers
Ap0llo

[b0ned0me]

Where are your users? This might be one of those things where leveraging the exchange rate could help you out. If you look at e.g. Micfo's packages (I think these might be closest to what you need) you can get quite a lot for £40/$80 per month.
I only have a few small things with them but they've been very good and responsive. However there are so many US hosts that there's always a good deal on somewhere.

[arthurleung]

I would recommend the two companies I hosted server with:

Leaseweb: LeaseWeb: Domains - Webhosting - Dedicated Servers - Colocation - Streaming - DSL
Exportal: [Europe] Windows specials C2D E6600 from 139 Euro C2Q Q6600 from 175 Euro. FREE SETUP - Web Hosting Talk - The largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet

Exportal are based in Germany and Leaseweb in Netherlands

Both are month-to-month contract.
I would avoid getting a server in USA, assuming your customers are mostly based in Europe.

If your site is using 712MB of Ram, there is definitely something wrong with your Apache configuration. Also I think linux will use as much ram as available so it is not as bad as you think.

[Lourdes]

Do you know how to manage a server? If you do then I can recommend colo with rapidswitch - Managed Dedicated Servers, Network and Colocation Services at RapidSwitch which is a really excellent price. Exportal (as mentioned by arthur) are good for dedicated servers, they resell netdirekt servers at lovely prices - [Europe] Server clearance - free Directadmin / Windows 2003STD or 10% off - Web Hosting Talk - The largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet .
If you're not good with Linux then you'll want a managed VPS with that much resource use. I can't make any recommendations myself but you should have no problem finding a UK provider with your budget.

[Ap0llo]

Hi there.

All problems sorted now, just got a deal with Poundhost. Colocationed by old server to them, paying £42 a month and upto 2tb bandwidth

Now just waiting to get a new server setup...then i can hopefully put all my sites and clients sites on it

Cheers for the help guys.