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Hi there,

Anybody got any recommendations for reliable, reasonably priced web and email hosting? Who's worth looking at? Who's worth avoiding?

Ta!

I thought miscellaneous was still for magic discussion?

Either way, my family has had a lot of luck with bluehost. Good price and great customer support. It depends of course on how you are designing. If your using frontpage or coolpage or the like you need a host with frontpage extensions or that can support the upload directly from the program. All I need for now is an online shop with extra pages for things. You might just check out weebly, their free and have a great site creator. As far as registering the .com, I go with 1and1 as they have a great cheap price for the first year and a nice email system.

domainit.com are rather good and 1and1.co.uk are also good. However, you will probably get many different answers!

For email, why go for anyone else other than google mail?

Your web designer can recommend/provide hosting

I had nothing but trouble with 1and1 every time I addressed one problem another came up and there customer support was appalling.

I use One.com for a Wordpress powered site and Google for email services. Pretty cheap and no complaints.

I use Godaddy.

They've been really reliable for me and I have quite a few sites hosted with them.

I use godaddy and find them good value. I have phoned there support a couple of times when I have been stuck and they have always been very helpful. They have packages from wordpress only upwards. The great thing I find is that most apps setup automatically and also sort out the dbases.

The only thing I find annoying is the upselling.

Nic

Grant Horton wrote:I thought miscellaneous was still for magic discussion?

Is is, hence this has been moved. To my knowledge this question has been asked several times before so please give the Search Function a try for more information.

I'm abusing a hosting plan I share with a friend with Dreamhost for a load of different non-magic sites. E-mail for most hosted domains are done through them, but some are worked through Google Apps (which accept your own domain for e-mail for up to 10 accounts for free)

Please, however, concentrate hard on your website design. Please either make something that looks professional as heck, or if you cannot, find someone whom can.
It amazes me how many people in general make really quite horrific websites to save themselves the money of finding someone to code it for them, when at a pinch a Content Management System like Wordpress with a free theme from the thousands available online would work just as well with a little tweaking...

123-reg is OK for hosting, but their stats server and web mail interface are terrible slow. You definitely need to set up your own mail client.

I have been with heartinternet for 7 years and had no problems

Mandrake wrote:

Grant Horton wrote:I thought miscellaneous was still for magic discussion?

Is is, hence this has been moved. To my knowledge this question has been asked several times before so please give the Search Function a try for more information.

Sorry! My mistake.

No worries, it's just that there's a lot of info in those posts which might help you - best of luck!

I have my web sites on compila.com
have a look at their 'bargain' webhosting.