I've been using Tagadab for VPS and am happy with them, especially as they are cheaper than AWS at £10 per month. But they don't have the nifty restore feature that VPS.net offers – I may even switch to VPS (only learned about them readig this thread, thanks as always).
And if you want shared webhosting, good ol' http://www.webfaction.com is hard to beat. Webfaction will even support Zope/Plone, and includes free https (like all free https, your users need to explicitly accept the certificate). Their control panel is great for having multiple subdomains, and their
DNS over-ride feature allows you to have subdomains off site or setup CNAME and
MX Records for google apps (FYI – if anyone is thinking about google
apps, shoot me an email – I've set that up for about a dozen clients so
far).
Some other Hosting Providers don't give access to DNS or suggest that users email them with requests for DNS changes – forcing me to use alternate DNS services like the free zoneedit.com, with it's exciting 1998-esque interface.
stony
citrusconsultants.com
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Antony Penn
<[address removed]> wrote:
Hi Manish,
Your email is contradictory. If you have a shared server you will not be doing any installation, config or admin as it is all taken care of for you. Maybe you are referring to 'virtual hosts' where you essentially hire a VM machine portion of a server, in which case you get full root access to do everything with. The problem with shared virtual hosting is usually limited CPU and limited bandwidth.
Just scan for 'virtual shared hosting' or 'virtual private servers' for this.
uk2.net do dedicated servers for £50 per month, with very excellent bandwidth
All web hosts are crap at one point, usually when they have a server outage and this can cost you a whole day or two. If that is a problem for you, I would also recommend outsourcing your DNS (someone like ultradns) for about £20 a year and hiring a second server, from a separate provider. Your DNS settings can be changed to 10 mins time-to-live and if you have a problem with server#1, change the dns to point to server#2 (and of course copy all your web files from your regular backups to server2) and you will be up and running again in 15 mins.
hope this helps.
regards,
Antony Penn
On 23/04/2009, Manish Shah <[address removed]> wrote:
Hi there,
I'm looking for a fast, cheap, no-frills, UK-based shared hosting company to host a PHP / MySQL application.
We're hands-on and can do most of the installation/configuration/administration ourselves. We just need a quick, shared, server because we don't think we can afford dedicated hosting at the moment.
Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
Manish
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Equal Experts Ltd.
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