Comparing Web Host Providers

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by goldoni

There must be something missing with that price as I only get one MySQL database and to give you a bigger Yikes I pay that for each domain I have. This year I have parked one domain ARD.co.uk which cost me £35.00. What about the NICs charges every two years, my hert-plumbers.org.uk was due in June and I received a letter from the registration company asking for £70.00 plus vat but as exploit are members they only pay £5.00 which is included in the £79.00 inc VAT. The Goldonian.org domain is due to run out at the end of July so please tell me more there must be other charges????? Not Just £10.69 per year ,,,Yikes

I have heard of these sort of prices but when you are just about to move over you find a bloody big spanner if you know what I mean

UK2 charge 12.50 NIC fees and £3.84 fees for a .org or .co.uk domain per 2 years.

So it is the £10.69 plus the domain fees.

My domains are all at UK2 who allow you to just type in the addresses of the iweb nameservers and thats the move done.

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by goldoni

I like the way its laid out on your Cpanel and if the costs work out as posted that will be cool. One thing I take it Cf is hosted on the same server, last week I kept on getting page not found for CF was that a little hitch with CF or the servers???

No, we have a dedicated server from I-Web which costs us in a month what you're currently paying for hosting in a year.

Originally Posted by Alanmelon

But recent events are not as bad as they seem...that downtime only affected one server, so the percentage impact will be much less when considering all the other sites on the other servers (like mine )

True, but if you're running a commercial site, the headline uptime figure provided by your service provider covering their entire operation is less relevant than the service level agreement you sign with them governing your specific site. The agreement I have with the host of our corporate site allows for only an hour or so per year downtime. If it exceeds that, we get pretty hefty rebates, which is nice for our budget, but if it's down for more than a couple of hours per year, we fail in our task of providing 24-7 media and investor information. As we are big PLC, failing to meet that commitment is a very big deal. For us, the fact that we get money back is incidental - the site simply has to stay up. If our site was affected in the way this one has been in the last couple of weeks, I'd have been on the carpet in a couple of very plush and senior offices explaining exactly what went wrong and how it is never going to happen ever again.

This is not to diss any particular webhost, and especially not iWeb, who are a generous friend to Cable Forum and its members. But you do have to match the scale and priorities of your operation and its website to those of the company that you wish to host it, and expect to pay accordingly.

[JediMaster]

I use http://www.uh-hosting.co.uk/ (or http://www.uh-hosting.co.uk/services_asp_aspPro.asp) to be exact

It is GREAT for my Suzi Perry Gallery

[SMHarman]

If someone else sharing your server runs some crap scripts or has a resource intensive site, it will have a performance impact on you site. For this reason Corporate and now CF have their own server, problem tracking means tracking down your problem, not who on the server is causing the problem. However you will be looking at paying around £100+ a month for a dedicated server, you need the revenue or compliance requirements (as Towny has mentioned) to justify that investment.

While Iweb had problems with the sparrow (the server name), it has now been put down, and a replacement taken from the datacentre.

[willie]

I received a letter from the registration company asking for £70.00 plus vat

Do not be taken in by these con artists there is no way this will cost you this.
a couple to watch out for are as follows
Domain Registration of America
Domain Registry Services
What these people do is trawl the internet looking for domain names that are about to expire and pray on the gullibility of people sending them letters in the hope that someone takes up the offer.


If your domain name is about to expire go to the company that your domain name is regged with and simply renew it there

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Web Junkie

Do not be taken in by these con artists there is no way this will cost you this.
a couple to watch out for are as follows
Domain Registration of America
Domain Registry Services
What these people do is trawl the internet looking for domain names that are about to expire and pray on the gullibility of people sending them letters in the hope that someone takes up the offer.


If your domain name is about to expire go to the company that your domain name is regged with and simply renew it there

That said nic.uk allow renewal directly with themselves and charge considerably more than if you do it through a member.

[JediMaster]

Originally Posted by Web Junkie

Do not be taken in by these con artists there is no way this will cost you this.
a couple to watch out for are as follows
Domain Registration of America
Domain Registry Services
What these people do is trawl the internet looking for domain names that are about to expire and pray on the gullibility of people sending them letters in the hope that someone takes up the offer.


If your domain name is about to expire go to the company that your domain name is regged with and simply renew it there

I had a lotter off NOMINET.UK
They want £94 for a domain I had via 123-Reg

So I logged back in Updated my CreditCard & got it for £6

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by JediMaster

I had a lotter off NOMINET.UK
They want £94 for a domain I had via 123-Reg

So I logged back in Updated my CreditCard & got it for £6

£80 + VAT at 17.5% is £94. The letter you had was legit.

http://www.nic.uk/RegisteringYourDom...istrationFees/

Originally Posted by nic.uk

Registration fees
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Nominet UK's registration fees cover a period of two years, after which a renewal fee is payable (at the same rate) for each subsequent two year period.

Registering direct with Nominet

Nominet charges £80 plus VAT per direct domain name registration, which must be paid in full in advance.

Registering via a Nominet member

Nominet offers its members a discount on registration fees. Registration agents (ISPs), including Nominet members, usually combine the domain name registration fee with charges for other services that they provide to end users. Prices therefore vary widely in the commercial marketplace and you should shop around in order to find a deal that suits your needs.

The members' fee is given in return for members undertaking some of the administration associated with bulk registrations, including end user billing, which would otherwise be carried out by Nominet.

VAT

Value added Tax (VAT) at the current rate is added to all Nominet invoices for domain name registration and membership. This applies to both EU countries and non-EU countries.

This is a ruling by HM Customs and Excise because the service is supplied in the UK and not the country of the registration agent or registrant.

You may be able to reclaim VAT in your own country. Please see http://www.hmce.gov.uk/forms/notices/723conts.htm for details.

[slysy]

Does iweb support php?

[Nemesis]

Originally Posted by slysy

Does iweb support php?

Yes

[slysy]

Originally Posted by Nemesis

Yes

OK thanks im sold but how do I transfer it? Not too knowledgeable on this sort of thing... How do I transfer a nameserver and do I have to do anything else? As its a .co.uk do I have to change IPS tags?

[willie]

All you need change is the nameservers to point to i-web there is no need to change ips tags unless you are transferring domaian names to another registrar

[Florence]

Would it be possible for such as myself to take out hosting to be used by my son. he has hosting right now but I am paying £60 a year for 50 mb hosted in the US.

his present one is www.mexicola.co.uk that is hosted in US.

[willie]

Originally Posted by Kits

Would it be possible for such as myself to take out hosting to be used by my son. he has hosting right now but I am paying £60 a year for 50 mb hosted in the US.

his present one is www.mexicola.co.uk that is hosted in US.

But of course it is possible just select the package that you want sign up afterwhich you will recieve an email telling you all the details you will need to know.