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.
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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management.
Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.
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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.
I sent you an e-mail ;-)
Have a look at http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
I can give you some DreamHost space for free. Could probably also offer you cheap hosting on our servers at CWCS datacenter in Nottingham.
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/
I’m using One since a long time back. Cheap and reliable, at least to me. Try http://www.one.com .
I use vidahost, who are far from bad and quite helpful. They even rang me up when I joined.
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
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…
I agree with Eskild, definitely look at http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
Love them. (:
I’ve used http://me2uweb.com/ for about 4 years and have no complaints.
Possibly over the top for what you’re asking for, but the bytemark linux VMs are good and fairly cheap.
I use a VPSs from http://www.vboxes.net/ which are not in the UK, but are stupid fast with connectivity.
I third the suggestion for http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
Awesome good stuff.
vpslink.com is cheap at the lowest of the low end. Linode is hands down the best I’ve found.