New web host

I’m looking for ideas for a web host to replace namezero. I’ve been with namezero for years and years for my personal website mostly due to laziness, but now their service has got beyond a joke and I’m looking for a replacement.

Can anyone recommend a (possibly UK based) hosting provider? I need about 1GB/month, about 50Mb webspace. I need just apache for static HTML pages, no MySQL, PHP, or any CMS fancy-whatsits. I need to transfer a single .com domain, and setup a few mail redirects — no mailboxes needed.

I don’t mind paying a little extra for uptime or for a company that isn’t going to go bust anytime soon. Ideas welcome. Thanks.

Richard.

15 Responses to “New web host”

  1. Chris Tyler says:

    Hurricane Electric (he.net) is both crazy-cheap and crazy-fast. They’re not UK-based but they are very central from a web-topography point of view. 2G storage/125G transfer/static content is US$1/month; for US$10/month you get 5G storage, 500G transfer, and CGI/PHP+MySQL. I’m not using them at the moment but have used them in the past and been very pleased, ymmv.

  2. I sent you an e-mail ;-)

  3. Eskild Hustvedt says:

    Have a look at http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net

  4. Patrys says:

    I can give you some DreamHost space for free. Could probably also offer you cheap hosting on our servers at CWCS datacenter in Nottingham.

  5. Peter Robinson says:

    OVH in the UK is quite good. You can get a VPS or RPS server for less than £10 a month depending on what you want to do with it http://www.ovh.co.uk/

  6. Johan Thelin says:

    I’m using One since a long time back. Cheap and reliable, at least to me. Try http://www.one.com .

  7. devolute says:

    I use vidahost, who are far from bad and quite helpful. They even rang me up when I joined.

  8. Sam says:

    Rimu Hosting!

    I’ve been with them for a few years . Great company . No downtime ( knock on wood )
    Google them, great reviews.

    Dallas based is the cheapest at $19 USD which is about 12 Pounds

    http://rimuhosting.com/vps-servers

    UK Based server also available for $25 USD

  9. Jon says:

    I use http://www.123-reg.co.uk for domain registration and email redirection, been with them for years and never had any issues. I haven’t used their hosting, but it starts from £2.49 a month…

  10. Brian says:

    I agree with Eskild, definitely look at http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
    Love them. (:

  11. Andy B says:

    I’ve used http://me2uweb.com/ for about 4 years and have no complaints.

  12. Richard Moore says:

    Possibly over the top for what you’re asking for, but the bytemark linux VMs are good and fairly cheap.

  13. James says:

    I use a VPSs from http://www.vboxes.net/ which are not in the UK, but are stupid fast with connectivity.

  14. Jason Oster says:

    I third the suggestion for http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

    Awesome good stuff.

  15. G says:

    vpslink.com is cheap at the lowest of the low end. Linode is hands down the best I’ve found.