To complete our mini-series on web hosting companies, we are today looking at the companies that have fulfilled our requirements.
We have used a number of different web hosting companies over the years. The following is a list of the web hosting companies that we feel would meet the requirements of most websites.
We have based our list on the information that we have looked at over the mini series of web hosting.
These include:
Price, Diskspace, Bandwidth, Support services and where are the servers based.
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Company name |
Price from | Bandwidth | Diskspace | Support Services |
Location of Servers |
| Fasthosts | £4.99 per month | Unlimited | 2GB | live chat phone email | UK |
| Blackfoot | £40.00 | 5GB | 500MB | support ticket | UK |
| Krystal hosting | £24.99 | 10GB | 250MB | phone/support ticket | UK |
| webfusion | £47.40 | 20GB | 1.5GB | phone/ticket | UK |
| 1stforwebhostinguk | £59.00 | 2000MB | 200MB | ticket | UK |
| 34 sp | £3.95 per month | 20GB | 5GB | live chat/ ticket | UK |
| FastVision hosting | £53.88 | 20GB | 1GB | ticket and phone | UK |
| Poldings | £25.00 | 500MB | 50MB | ticket and phone | UK |
| Pixel Internet | £19.99 | Unlimited | 1000MB | ticket | UK |
| Web Hosting UK | £2.29 per month | 5000MB | 500MB | ticket and phone | UK |
Prices correct at time of this article.
To find out more about any of these hosting companies click on the name of the company, most of them provide more than one hosting package. The ones listed on the list are the entry level packages.
In web related magazines it is common to find long lists of hosting companies than we have presented above, all trying to attract your attention.
As we compiled our list we also considered where the servers are actually based, not the fact that the company have offices in the UK.
On many SEO commentaries there is a consensus of opinion that if a person refines their search results by clicking "pages from the UK" then servers based outside of the UK may not be listed as high.
This has a potential knock on effect that your site may be then listed in "local searches" from the country that your server is in fact based in.
Therefore we have focused specifically on those companies that openly declare that their servers are in the UK.
This week it has been confirmed that a new music file format MusicDNA, is being launched to try and replace the MP3. Its confirmed elsewhere that this is to be a replacement rather than run along side the MP3.
Continuing our mini-series about web hosting, this time we are looking at two key features of your web hosting plan, bandwidth and disk space.
Let’s explain these key features in more detail and provide examples to help you decide the usage you could require and the implications of skimping on either of these features.
Continuing our mini-series about web hosting, this time we are looking at the basic requirements to consider when choosing a website hosting package.
As a minimum requirement in our opinion, your hosting company should provide you the ability to perform several basic functions. Beware that they don’t limit you to controlling your email or billing and nothing more.
Firstly, let us look at some of the basic requirements we think you should be provided with as part of your hosting package.
We had previously stated that we were going to be looking at what you need from your hosting plan, how to select the best one for you to prevent your website being blocked as you have used all your “air time” for that month. However, we have altered the order of the articles that make up this mini series as we have come across too many of these
‘real life’ situations.
Anyone who owns or would like to own a website will need the services of a hosting company, unless you are fortunate enough to own and manage your very own webservers.
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