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Domain Hosting
on: May 14, 2009, 11:59:24 AM
Currently I have a domain with Clara.net - used to be Netscalibur but was taken over by them.

The domain has not been paid for for a while, but they still have the domain and I can renew domain for a year and also get 100MB hosting for £30 for the year.

Basically I want to renew the domain so I dont lose it! and maybe have some space to put stuff on, but not primary concern.

What would you guys recomend? is that a pretty good deal including domain renewal? Or can I get a far better for about the same price?

Linky to what it appears they can offer: http://www.uk.clara.net/hosting/shared-web-hosting

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Re:Domain Hosting
Reply #1 on: May 14, 2009, 12:42:26 PM
Price works out £8 a month. If i had a personal site with minimal traffic i would be looking to pay as less as possible on the annual hosting fee.

I found Fasthosts to be great for Gurureview when it was up, however their offer atm is first 3 months free, then £4.99/month but its an 18 month contract.
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Reply #2 on: May 14, 2009, 13:04:11 PM
I use 123-reg to register my domains, and get basic shared hosting with hostgator for $9.99 a month. Basic shared hosting being like 5gb of storage and unlimited bandwidth (fair usage policy though) as well as emails etc.

Never had a problem with them. Till now. I didnt check my hotmail account to see an invoice overdue so have just had my site suspended! Its all paid and so I am waiting for the site to go live again now.

Re:Domain Hosting
Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 14:38:52 PM
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Price works out £8 a month.


For what? Are you talking about yours? as the one quoted is £30 for the year?

Would be nice to have something which CMS will work with, as may start using the site again, and prefer not to have something just HTML based, but obviously this doesnt.

Cheers will have a look tonght when back from work!

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Reply #4 on: May 14, 2009, 15:17:10 PM
30 quid a year is good enough, so long as its fully featured. i resell my hosting for about that. i use nethosted who are super respnsive on support tickets.

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Reply #5 on: May 14, 2009, 15:21:51 PM
http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml - even basic packages cover webstats, scripts etc, so you can do CMS stuff in there.

It sounds too good to be true, I thought so at first, but seriously, cant fault it, been with them for 18 months now and the only downtime Im aware of was the 2 hours today it took me to realise I hadnt paid the bills.

So what if its american/international, they have 24/7 support, and I mean that. Ive done chat support with someone at about 10pm on a sunday night before, as well as earlier today :D

Compared to when I was with whats his face (the hosting company that used to have several people on here and died an unpleasant death, selective memory has cleared its name from my mind!) its like the best service in the world. But given the service at the other place, thats not hard to do!

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Reply #6 on: May 14, 2009, 18:03:36 PM
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Price works out £8 a month.


For what? Are you talking about yours? as the one quoted is £30 for the year?

Would be nice to have something which CMS will work with, as may start using the site again, and prefer not to have something just HTML based, but obviously this doesnt.

Cheers will have a look tonght when back from work!


Dunno what site i was looking at :P!

Anyway i was using Fasthosts before Gurureview went down, they support ASP/PHP as far as i remember

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Domain Hosting
Reply #7 on: May 14, 2009, 20:05:05 PM
I have had a domain here since the b-one time and never had a problem or issue to what I consider to be a fair price.

http://www.one.com/en/  I pay about 28 euros a year in total for 3000 MB of space and  .com domain  how much is that in £  ?

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Reply #8 on: May 14, 2009, 20:10:44 PM
Ive tried the "cheap" hosts, and if you have a heavy usage website avoid them.  If youre just putting together a personal website, with a few bits of stuff for yourself and a few friends then go for it.  If you are going to get heavy traffic then avoid like the plague.  I had to get a pro package so I dont get raped for breaking the CPU usage clauses most of the cheap hosts offer.  1&1 suspended my site after less than a week because they said I was adversely impacting the server.  

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Reply #9 on: May 14, 2009, 20:41:00 PM
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Ive tried the "cheap" hosts, and if you have a heavy usage website avoid them.  If youre just putting together a personal website, with a few bits of stuff for yourself and a few friends then go for it.  If you are going to get heavy traffic then avoid like the plague.  I had to get a pro package so I dont get raped for breaking the CPU usage clauses most of the cheap hosts offer.  1&1 suspended my site after less than a week because they said I was adversely impacting the server.  


One.com has a fairly low price but is not "cheap"  has basicly unlimited traffic as long as it not so heavy that it disturbs other users.

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Re:Domain Hosting
Reply #10 on: May 14, 2009, 21:04:51 PM
"One" looks quite good for the price, its going to be a very low usage site anyway I expect.

Im thinking of hosting the domain with Go-Daddy to secure the domain then get seperate hosting when I require it?

Any comments on this? How good are go daddy, and I assume I can use go daddy config to point it at where ever I want?

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Reply #11 on: May 14, 2009, 21:32:42 PM
One.com - price worked out below... But they have to have the domain, cant use go daddy

Web Space (12 months) small:              10.8 GBP
Domain Renewal (.com):                     9.0 GBP
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VAT (15%):                                 3.0 GBP
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Total:                                    22.8 GBP

And first year is free, but I think there may be a £9 setup fee

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Reply #12 on: May 14, 2009, 22:22:02 PM
I got the impression godaddy and hostgator were pretty similar when I was looking to move from etgs.

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Reply #13 on: May 15, 2009, 00:27:05 AM
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One.com - price worked out below... But they have to have the domain, cant use go daddy

Web Space (12 months) small:              10.8 GBP
Domain Renewal (.com):                     9.0 GBP
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VAT (15%):                                 3.0 GBP
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Total:                                    22.8 GBP

And first year is free, but I think there may be a £9 setup fee


For me one has been good since 2005, I have no web page though just use the hosting mostly for pictures and the mail. the support has been good and fast through their support chat when I had problem setting up a mail client. Oh I forgot I have a blog as well but it is kinda privat with the members being from a cab company I used to work with.

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