5punk

I've got to renew spoodie.com next month and pipex want £130 for domain registration and hosting for a year, can anyone recommend a cheaper alternative that doesn't sacrifice reliability?

mainly I use it for hosting a few files and email forwarding

Yep, dreamhost.com (the new 5punk hosting) is really good (and cheap with a promotional code I could give you).

The only reason we had downtime a week or so ago, was due to a power cut knocking out their data centre, and unfortunately 2 of the 3 UPS systems the site runs on failed, and they are chasing this up, and resolving it so that it never happens again.

They took this downtime very seriously, and reliability/uptime seems to be their main focus, which is a good thing.

Their control panel is very good as well, so if you're interested, let me know, and I can knock it down to about $30 for a years hosting.

After a year, it will go up to $8 a month though, but I wouldn't advise you to go to urevised.com, as even though they are the cheapest around, their reliability is terrible.

It all depends on how much you want to spend per month/annum, and then looking around for the best deal narf.

dreamhost.com sounds good to me, I'll read up on it later

any money you can help me save would be greatly appreciated and you never know, you might donate the cash I save

i had the same problem with pipex for a client. I would normally take the hosting on myself, but the client liked pipex. I ended up moving them to 123-reg for the domain, and webfusion for the hosting. They are run by pipex but are much cheaper

or you could get a phat internet pipe and run an apache server...



*wishes*
supposedly Verizon is testing fiber-to-home service in some areas: 15Mb/s down 2Mb/s up for $50...

I use these peeps for my webhosting... been with them a few years now and never had any problems...
http://www.eukhost.com/

deject wrote:or you could get a phat internet pipe and run an apache server...

It would be great to run servers at home but my BT line wont even support 2meg broadband