azekeil: (Default)
azekeil ([personal profile] azekeil) wrote2003-12-04 05:07 pm

Request for help

Can anyone suggest a cheap, reliable, good service business hosting company with webspace, email, stat counting, logging etc? Cheers.
gerald_duck: (mallard)

[personal profile] gerald_duck 2003-12-04 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
Pepperfish is run by some competent friends of mine, and is a nice no-nonsense place.

If you want screamingly huge bandwidths for sod all money, someone else I know is very happy with Topclasshost.

:-) A list of lists fitting various criteria, some searchable

[identity profile] winterdreamer.livejournal.com 2003-12-04 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
These should help :-)

http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/
http://www.findmyfreehost.com/
http://www.100-best-free-webspace.com/

[identity profile] wechsler.livejournal.com 2003-12-04 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
You want just webhosting, or a full colo?

[identity profile] beeby.livejournal.com 2003-12-05 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
What's full colo pls?

[identity profile] ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com 2003-12-04 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk - run by friends of mine and do almost everything from plain hosting/email forwarding to hosting my housemate's jointly owned colo server.

[identity profile] androktone.livejournal.com 2003-12-04 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
You should speak to James about that.. those are all services he provides..

[identity profile] drreagan.livejournal.com 2003-12-04 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
cheap.
reliable.
good.

In my experience, you can only choose 2 of those 3.

[identity profile] azekeil.livejournal.com 2003-12-04 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's my opinion. Still, they haven't listened up until now, so I've no idea if they'll listen now.

[identity profile] jessie-pup.livejournal.com 2003-12-04 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, my company does all of the above apart from maybe cheap. If you drop me a line with what you need I can let you know if we can help :)

[identity profile] beeby.livejournal.com 2003-12-05 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
ISP?


This is a professional service needed so we can forget cheap. We've used in the past Demon, Amen and Via at present. The business is carried on via a call centre but increasingly via an automated full-on bookable website which is linked to a professional money taking service via the customers' credit cards and the bookings for the service will then automatically enter into the company's database. Our problems up to now have been:- expensive phone calls to technical assistance; web pointing failure for days; email pointing failure for weeks; server down; straight lying about status of any of the services! In addition to Alex' comments above we also need self administerable (is there such a word?) email addresses and ftp. I don't know what colo is?? Alex' Mother.
gerald_duck: (rubberducky)

[personal profile] gerald_duck 2003-12-05 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
So, in summary, all of your friends know personally people who run ISPs.

I find that very revealing. :-p

ISP?

[identity profile] beeby.livejournal.com 2003-12-05 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
This is a professional service needed so we can forget cheap. We've used in the past Demon, Amen and Via at present. The business is carried on via a call centre but increasingly via an automated full-on bookable website which is linked to a professional money taking service via the customers' credit cards and the bookings for the service will then automatically enter into the company's database. Our problems up to now have been:- expensive phone calls to technical assistance; web pointing failure for days; email pointing failure for weeks; server down; straight lying about status of any of the services! In addition to Alex' comments above we also need self administerable (is there such a word?) email addresses and ftp. I don't know what colo is?? Alex' Mother.

[identity profile] chaosdeathfish.livejournal.com 2003-12-08 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
I've always found Dataflame a good company, they've responded quickly to my (very few) queries in the past, they have decent domain management software, decent connectivity. Not exactly an expert on web hosting providers though.