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Old 07-02-2008, 09:57 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking Hosting24.com - First Class Web Hosting Services - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.
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Old 07-03-2008, 02:46 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I always recommend Hostgator.

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Old 07-08-2008, 09:46 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Hi there

For web hosting, try IT Media Group. He's just started up his own business and he's really good - Daren House, info@itmediagroup.co.uk, 07707 757636.

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Old 07-11-2008, 05:56 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Mediatemple are great - I have used them for years.
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Old 07-11-2008, 01:33 PM   #5 (permalink)
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so reseller links are fine then?
it's the same as an affiliate link?




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Old 07-12-2008, 04:01 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Try swhosting.ie



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Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking Hosting24.com - First Class Web Hosting Services - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.
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i also recommend hostgator
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Old 07-29-2008, 12:32 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Heartinternet cannot be beaten. Very reliable and very competative too.
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Old 09-06-2008, 03:54 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I know im a newbie (2nd post) but i started out hosting a few years back with what is now one of the UKs most prominent budget/cheap web hosts. Needless to say the quality of hosting was not great. In the last couple of years though i came across a web host called United Hosting - yes they cost a little more, but i really couldn't fault their service; in fact, if some offered me money to move to another host, i still wouldn't move!

When you're looking for hosting, apart from the quality, you need to decide where you want your hosting to be located as this will ultimately have some effect on your ranking in the search engines. For example if you choose hosting in the uk/on a uk ip, then this will help you ranking in Google.co.uk whereas if you go for american hosting this tends to help your ranking in Google.com.

At the end of the day, you should go on recommendation, not just on who appears to offer the best price!
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