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    Recommendations for a web hosting provider

    Hi,

    I'm looking for a new web hosting provider. I've been with 1&1 for 7 years and upgraded a few days ago from their Standard to Unlimited package.I use my hosting for photo gallaries and videos for friends and family for various domains. None have a proper website. The other purpose to backup critical data: photos, videos, important documents and my Outlook .pst file.

    When I upgraded 1&1 said I had to transfer my files myself as they won't do it. I had 50Gb of data and traffic is very light. But when I tried to upload my FTP client kept reporting that the quota had been exceeded. Contacted technical support who told me you actually get 30Gb which increases by 1Gb once you reach the maximum. Hardly unlimited is it? Anyway it wasn't increasing the quota and after it was escalated to 2nd line support they told me that I can't use my webspace to store any private data as a backup or otherwise. Even though I'd been storing my data for 7 years in this way.

    Anyway, 1&1 refuse to increase my quota so I'm looking for a new hosting provider. I would prefer a UK based company that allows me to use it to backup personal data. Also I have 8 domains which have been registered with Network Solutions and another registrar. I would like to be able to use hosting with no additional charges with all of them. Also I'd like spam filtering at server level and webmail access to POP email accounts at my domains.

    Does anyone have any recommendations? I looked at UK2 today and I spoke to them and they said that storing personal backup data is no problem. My only reservations is that their pricing did not seem transaparent and there seemed to be lots of extra charges on top of the basic hosting fee.

    Hope someone can help!

    Many thanks!

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    Re: Recommendations for a web hosting provider

    I use nearlyfreespeech.net and hostgator. NFS are expensive for large amounts of data. Hostgator are currently running a 25% off deal with the coupon code "UKMAYOFFER".

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    Re: Recommendations for a web hosting provider

    What sort of web hosting? plain HTML? PHP? ASP? cough... coldfusion?

    If you want dirt cheap and are willing to configure it yourself, Amazon Web Services with a free micro instance, email I would go via Google if they still offer it for free, the Amazon Glacier is designed for long term storage, costs cents per month per gb and the bandwidth is reasonable, something like £1 to download all 50gb in a month, 50gb of data is a lot to store (no option of using dropbox/similar?)
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    Re: Recommendations for a web hosting provider

    always found fasthosts to be pretty good

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    Re: Recommendations for a web hosting provider

    While I don't have any recommendations on a specific web host, I always like to suggest checking out WebHostingTalk as a place to search for reviews of various ones as well as to check out the many offers available.

    EDIT: Oops, I didn't realise that this was a resurrected thread (albeit only a month old one, rather than the usual resurrections of threads a few years old).
    Last edited by Output; 05-06-2013 at 12:34 PM.

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    Re: Recommendations for a web hosting provider

    From my experiences, HostGator are pretty good and not too expensive.
    I've also used JustHost, they say that you can't use the service for storage but I have for a few years now and they haven't given out any warnings.

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    Re: Recommendations for a web hosting provider

    yeah i agree with that.

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    Re: Recommendations for a web hosting provider

    I strongly suggest you take a look at ovh (http://ovh.co.uk)

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