Hi all, I know I saw something here a while back but can't find it now, so ... Could anyone point me in the direction of a decent web-host? It'll be a small hobby site, small membership and the site will be used more as a repository of information and to host a forum so members can keep in contact easily. 1 gig max storage and probably less than 5 gig traffic a month, indeed we reckon it'll likely be less than 1/10th of those numbers, so cheap and cheerful is good, reliability and ease of use is of more interest, so is cheap. We'd consider free web-hosts if the adverts weren't too obtrusive, but 'the committee' reckon they can afford up to maybe 50 quid a year ...... is this pie in the sky? We know nothing of web-hosting, or indeed writing web-pages, so 'easy enough for beginners to use' is also a good thing. Cheers. -- Paul - xxx '96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch' '98 Suzuki DR 200 Djebel 'Small but perfectly formed' Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'
Paul - xxx wibbled: http://hostmysite.com/ US based - genuine 24/7 support - although I'm UK based I've used them for my commercial stuff for 4 years now there's a selection of plans from US$8.95 to whatever you want to pay.
I'd have to say steer well clear, based on my experience. -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
What exactly do you need and how do you feel about hosting it in London? I do have access to a box in/near Telehouse that we rent space out on. Email me, preferably using timo at the above domain.
Cheapish and reliable, wot I use http://www.purplecloud.net/home/ Cheap, no personal knowledge http://www.qiq.co.uk/technology_host.php
Buzby wibbled We have already been recommended these by someone else and they do look reasonable, thanks. -- Paul - xxx '96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch' '98 Suzuki DR 200 Djebel 'Small but perfectly formed' Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'
I have been with Easyspace for years. Not the cheapest. Basic from 30 quid a year. http://www.easyspace.com/starter_hosting.php -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
I'm surprised by the limits on the size of MySQL database. Might be ok for a forum but not for a photo album. Or am I missing something?
Paul - xxx wibbled Thanks all. I'll be meeting 'the committee' this weekend, so thanks for the suggestions, very much appreciated. -- Paul - xxx '96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch' '98 Suzuki DR 200 Djebel 'Small but perfectly formed' Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'
No MySQL at all on the most basic package anyway. Dunno about photo albums, but I don't use BLOBs in databases anyway. I prefer to store a URL to the object. Mostly inertia that I don't switch to somewhere cheaper, but the reliability is good. I had one issue with PHP/ mySQL , but they were quite helpful in sorting it out, even though it was partly my fault. I also see that I have some Google advert credits I didn't know about to spend. In fact I might well look at purple cloud for some extra space, or now I have one box running 24 hours (the Puppy Linux 'torrent box') I ought really get a web server running on that and make use of the 500Gb of disk space hanging of it. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
That might be how it's done by the hosting site anyway, IYSWIM, in terms of which limits any photos actually affect.
Possibly. It would be beyond my current knowledge level, plus I'm not bothered as Purple Cloud only have a total storage limit anyway.
<has a quick look at coppermine site> As far as I can see the only limit on images will be the space you have available for the albums folder. No mention of configuring that to be on another host though. Even with my pikey 150MB mysql limit I think it will be able to cope with the 3Gb of storage I have available. A good point though that Paul is best to go for a package that includes mySQL if he wants to easily set up a forum or photo gallery. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
"Excess data transfer is charged monthly at a rate of 1p per MB plus a 50p administration charge" No an issue given Paul's requirements though. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
www.1and1.co.uk The French branch are very good, they respond quickly to e-mails or faxes and their servers have (AFAIK) shown 100% uptime since I registered the first domain with them in 2007. *.org is =~ 6¤ a year, which is dirt-cheap. You get ten e-mail addresses (or unlimited, if you set up your own MX), one MySQL DB, and all the usual bells and whistles that come with web hosting these days. D. -- des French Biking Vocabulary: http://minilien.fr/a0kg0p 'Kaiser: "Can you prove to me the existence of G-d?" Bismarck: "The Jews, your Majesty. The Jews"'
True, but I meant only total storage limit as opposed to separate storage limits for database and other parts of the site.
Pete Fisher wibbled Interesting discussion and thanks for the info. Storage or Bandwidth is unlikely to be a problem, the last website they had (before I joined) was about 40MB total and they achieved as a max 600 unique hits a month. We are likely to expand, but not stupidly so, though there are plans for a document store, 4 page pdf booklets, and a small 'where we went this weekend' picture gallery. -- Paul - xxx '96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi 'Big and Butch' '98 Suzuki DR 200 Djebel 'Small but perfectly formed' Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp "When I feel fit enough'
In which case you might see something you like here. http://www.purplecloud.com/misc/InstallingWebApplications.pdf
