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Dennis G - 25 Nov 2003 22:53 GMT

Hi,

I'm in the process of moving from Australia to England next year to pursue
some employment prospects. However, I am looking around for what is the best
deals for server space to hold my personal webpage. I have a reasonably
large photo gallery on my page at present (around 30Mb) and I'm sure that
the size will increase over the next few years as I see the UK and mainland
Europe. Can anyone help in regards to reasonably cheap, but reliable web
hosting for space between 60-100Mb? What prices will I be looking at for
hosting, a broadband connection and a registered domain name?

Thanks for your help!

Dennis
http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqdgolc1

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aj - 25 Nov 2003 23:11 GMT

You can get 250Mb free gallery space here http://fotopic.net/
It works well for me.

> Hi,
>
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> Dennis
> http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqdgolc1

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Alan Terry - 25 Nov 2003 23:27 GMT

>Hi,
>
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>the size will increase over the next few years as I see the UK and mainland
>Europe.

Why change host at all?

>Can anyone help in regards to reasonably cheap, but reliable web
>hosting for space between 60-100Mb? What prices will I be looking at for
>hosting, a broadband connection and a registered domain name?

For name and hosting, check:
clara.net
34sp.com

I would deal with the ISP / broadband separately.

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Alan ............

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Dennis G - 26 Nov 2003 00:25 GMT

> Why change host at all?

The host I have at the moment is with the Uni of Queensland (where I work)
and the site will be shut down once I finish work in March. I'll need a UK
based server as it'll be cheaper to yell at someone over the phone if there
is a problem than having to ring Australia all the time.

> For name and hosting, check:
> clara.net
> 34sp.com
>
> I would deal with the ISP / broadband separately.
> Alan ............

Thanks for the help. Though can you recommend any ISP/broadband services
that are worthwhile? The only broadband that I know of is BT or NTL.

Cheers
Dennis
http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqdgolc1

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Tom Cordiner - 26 Nov 2003 02:27 GMT

Hi Dennis,

> > For name and hosting, check:
> > clara.net
> > 34sp.com
> >
> > I would deal with the ISP / broadband separately.

I agree.

Try Positive Internet: http://www.positive-internet.com for a proper web
hosting company. 100% Linux, extremely technical and helpful, not cheap,
but, as they say, they're good. Very friendly guys.

Get your web hosting from a web hosting company who actually know about
servers and networks.

Get your broadband from a broadband supplier.

> Thanks for the help. Though can you recommend any ISP/broadband services
> that are worthwhile? The only broadband that I know of is BT or NTL.

Nildram are perfectly good: http://www.nildram.co.uk
Clara.net are fine, but freeuk are clara.net rebadged, and cheaper. It's the
same network, same support staff. http://www.freeuk.com

Have had both for ADSL at different addresses. Little to choose between
them. As for who to avoid...have heard bad things about plus.com's broadband
service.

People will always have favourites, of course. All those above have worked
well for me in the past.

HTH

Tom

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Tim Hobbs - 26 Nov 2003 07:38 GMT

Personal favourites would be Zen (www.zenadsl.com) for broadband (I
have 5 different connections to them and all work well) and
www.webshots.com for photo galleries.

Don't know about web space as I run my own servers.

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Tim Hobbs

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Jake - 26 Nov 2003 11:11 GMT

> Hi Dennis,
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> Get your web hosting from a web hosting company who actually know about
> servers and networks.

Hi,

Thanks for your recommendation Tom, just a quick note to say that we
do get most of our custom from word of mouth such as this and we do
try to provide the best web hosting possible. I note you say "not
cheap" and this is something we are addressing at the moment. We are
about to half the cost of our standard "Z" web hosting account from
January 1st 2004, but if anyone wants to say they've seen this posting
they can easily persuade us to give them this offer ahead of time.

Forgive me for that blatant advertising!

As for connectivity I'd say try Nildram, or see if you're lucky enough
to be in an exchange covered by Easynet's SDSL service.

Cheers,

Jake.

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Peter James - 26 Nov 2003 08:22 GMT

> Thanks for the help. Though can you recommend any ISP/broadband services
> that are worthwhile? The only broadband that I know of is BT or NTL.
>
> Cheers
> Dennis
> http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqdgolc1

Suggest you start here http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ for
reviews/ratings/comparison of all uk broadband ISPs

HTH

--

Peter

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Janie Thomson - 26 Nov 2003 10:12 GMT

> Hi,
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> hosting for space between 60-100Mb? What prices will I be looking at for
> hosting, a broadband connection and a registered domain name?

For hosting and domain name, you could do worse that http://www.cybes.net .
Broadband suppliers to look at would be http://www.freeuk.com (I'm in the
process of changing to them from BT, who I don't recommend - more expensive
and their customer care is appalling), and http://www.giomail.co.uk/. You
will get 50mb of free webspace (of that's of any interest to you) with
Freeuk for set-up fee ?57 plus ?22.99 per month, and they insist on a one
year contract which means you have to pay the contract out if you don't stay
the year. Gio have shorter contracts and charge set up plus ?19.95 per
month for a comparable speed connection (or ?16.95 per month for slower) but
you only get 10Mb of space with them (which won't matter if you intend to
purchase commercial space anyway).

HTH

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Janie
http://www.janie-thomson.co.uk

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Dennis G - 26 Nov 2003 21:39 GMT

Thanks for all the help with the web hosting broadband suggestions. I
probably should have said that it is likely that I'll be based in Leeds, so
I'm sure that there are a few options available there.

I now have some thinking to do.

Cheers
Dennis
http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqdgolc1

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howard - 30 Nov 2003 22:59 GMT

> Hi,
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> Dennis
> http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqdgolc1

It's not the size of web space that's important. Find out about
bandwidth limit and how much they charge if you exceed it.
(particulary with a photographic website)

If your site is mentioned in the media (Magazine, TV, radio) you
could get a lot of hits, that could cost you big money, or your
site being pulled, without notice !

www.freeuk.com is OK and free (of course) but they will shut your
site down if too many people look at it.

Netweaver have been good to me.. www.netweaver.co.uk

H.

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