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PostPosted: 16:29 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Forum/website hosting. Reply with quote

Can anyone recommend a good one, from personal long-termish use, either here or in the US? No more than about a fiver per month and actually works.

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PostPosted: 16:36 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Used these for a couple of years

https://www.lincwebhosting.co.uk/

Never had any downtime, really good pricing too.

Depends on your space and bandwidth requirements though dude.

What you after?
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PostPosted: 16:43 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaNsA wrote:
Used these for a couple of years

https://www.lincwebhosting.co.uk/

Never had any downtime, really good pricing too.

Depends on your space and bandwidth requirements though dude.

What you after?


Forums for a couple of hundred members and a website to go with it. I know all the "unlimited" disc-space and bandwidth claims are so much BS, but it does need to be able to handle the forums without being like it's in mollasses or always be going offline.
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PostPosted: 16:56 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.tsohost.co.uk/ are excellent, in my experience. Very good (and fast) technical support, great uptime / speed and good value for money (hesitate to use the word 'cheap').
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PostPosted: 17:05 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

£49 a year is pretty cheap. 10Gb disc-space and 150Gb monthly transfer is way above the Lincs people too, though 10Gb is pretty piss-poor by any forum standard. With terabyte drives coming in at around £50 these days I don't understand the tight-fistedness on disc-space allowances. I wonder how long BCF takes to fill 10Gb?
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PostPosted: 17:22 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

TSO do seem to have the extra goods with regards to Bandwidth.
Check out the sql db allowance though, wonder how much another one is?

You would be surprised how little space is used dude. Ive never filled the 4gig lol

The main reason i went with Linc was that i could by via paypal monthly.
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PostPosted: 17:27 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use clook for work and personal, not the cheapest but really good tech support.
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PostPosted: 17:28 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaNsA wrote:
TSO do seem to have the extra goods with regards to Bandwidth.
Check out the sql db allowance though, wonder how much another one is?

You would be surprised how little space is used dude. Ive never filled the 4gig lol

The main reason i went with Linc was that i could by via paypal monthly.


100 databases on the pro package.

Do you run a forum? If yes, how many members and how many posts per month, on rough average? I used to run a lot but it's been many years and I'm buggered if I can remember a single stat.
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PostPosted: 17:35 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to have a couple, but defunctededed them and kept the webspace.

Had about 170 over the 2, never reached my BW limit either.
Forums took up about 30mb max at start, and at close was about 500mb

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PostPosted: 18:08 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been having a read-around and it looks like 10Gb space/150Gb BW should be more than enough actually (with the 150Gb being stupidly overkill). Can't find anything negative about TSO either, which is more than can be said for iPage and Bluehost. Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:55 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wee, TSO take monthly payments too. Thumbs Up Laughing I've ordered from them, see how it goes.
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PostPosted: 18:59 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good luck bud Very Happy

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PostPosted: 19:01 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaNsA wrote:
Good luck bud Very Happy

If you need a hand, and you are stuck down with n00bism drop me a pm Very Happy


Cheers dude, hopefully the phpbb stuff will come flooding back into my noggin. Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:45 - 07 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
I've been having a read-around and it looks like 10Gb space/150Gb BW should be more than enough actually (with the 150Gb being stupidly overkill). Can't find anything negative about TSO either, which is more than can be said for iPage and Bluehost. Laughing


I got burned several times with shite hosts so I did lots of research before going through the hassle of moving (again) and no-one had anything bad to say about TSO. I was a bit put off by the lack of a helpdesk phone number at first, but they're really quick when you email them (even with stoopid noob questions) Thumbs Up

Forums are surprisingly light on capacity. The only thing that might be of any concern are attachments - the posts themselves are tiny.
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