Web hosting
May. 11th, 2009 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livA couple of years ago, I signed up for hosting with a company which turned out to be a front for TalkActive, based on clicking through a Facebook ad and seeing that it was cheap and met the basic requirements I had. Their banner proclaimed 10:- a month (about 80p), and there were a few hidden costs but it still worked out pretty cheap compared to anything else I could find easily. However, recently they have put the prices up and become rather unreliable.
So I want to move, but not urgently.
Ability to deal with my domains, which are .se and .be (the latter domain is registered with G and I, but I'm happy to transfer it if that's cheaper or easier.)
Some kind of email; forwarding is basically fine, I don't necessarily need a mailbox, but I do need to be able to define at least a handful of different email addresses at each domain
FTP access preferably, though I'll live with a web interface if I have to
Minimal storage space, but bandwidth limits such that I don't need to count every kilobyte in trepidation
Minimal scripting; my pages are pretty much HTML, CSS and a little tiny bit of JavaScript, so I'm not desperate for PHP or Apache or anything like that, and I'm not intending to host my own blog any time soon
User-friendly, uncomplicated interface; I just want to upload web pages, not configure servers
Low cost; I'm prepared to pay for decent web hosting, but not more than a few tens of pounds per year including domain registration.
Ability to accept payment by Swedish bank card (I'll check this one out for myself, I don't expect people to know about that little detail)
No adverts displayed on my web pages (I don't mind if I have to look at adverts in order to interact with the hosting company or control panel)
Some stats would be nice, but not a dealbreaker as I'll use Google Analytics anyway.
I'm not expecting fantastic reliability in this price range, but at least some page where I can look for notices of downtime and get information, and given several similar options reliability would be the deciding factor
Any suggestions? Basically I'm looking for cheap, off-the-shelf hosting and I think my requirements are fairly modest. And yes, I could Google but then I'll end up in the same situation I did last time, just picking something that looks ok without any knowledge. So I'm hoping that some of you will have experience and feel like making recommendations.
(Yes, I do get some hosting from my ISP, no, I'd rather not use it, because it's all style and no substance and I'm likely to be moving in a couple of months anyway.)
So I want to move, but not urgently.
Any suggestions? Basically I'm looking for cheap, off-the-shelf hosting and I think my requirements are fairly modest. And yes, I could Google but then I'll end up in the same situation I did last time, just picking something that looks ok without any knowledge. So I'm hoping that some of you will have experience and feel like making recommendations.
(Yes, I do get some hosting from my ISP, no, I'd rather not use it, because it's all style and no substance and I'm likely to be moving in a couple of months anyway.)
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Date: 2009-05-17 08:10 pm (UTC)