UK based people Need your help
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I'm aware that this is not SEO related, but bare with me:
Launching a new business venture and need some advise. the site will be located in the UK (for legal reasons) and since I have no experience with UK webhosts. I kinda need your help on selecting a good webhost.
Money is not importants but what is:
- excellent up times
- unlimited bandwidth
So if you could share your experiences it would be much appreciated.
thx in advance
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If money is no object then Rackspace are your people.Not the cheapest, but there service is top notch and their Fanatical Support means that if you call you get through to a techie within 5 rings or something daft like that.
Been with them on a dedicated server for 8 years, never had any major issues.
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actually I don't mind shared hosting if they can surply the bandwith that I will potentially need. Am actually looking for something like a scaleable cloud solution would be awesome.
I'm not quite sure how much traffic the site will generate yet but potentially allot. Wich is why a scaleable solution would be perfect. But I can't have the site go offline because I have exceeded the monthly bandwidth.
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I don't think Rene is looking for shared hosting, his specified Bandwidth and uptime which indicates to me he is going to try and generate a lot of traffic to a the site so he needs the backup of bandwidth and uptime.
Basically he needs a dedicated server with burstable bandwidth with a hosting company that has 100% uptime.
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It's only a small personal website, but I've been with 34sp for over ten years. I've never known my site to be down and on the one occasion I had a problem I e-mailed them and they got back to me within the hour. On other occasions I've contacted them their customer service has been great too - and that to a site that only costs me £18 a year. I've had a couple of problems with some corporate websites hosted on Rackspace, but I haven't personally dealt with them so can't comment on their customer service.
P.S. I don't know how reliable this site is, but it reports uptime over the last 5-6 years:
http://www.webhostingstuff.com/uptime/34SPcom.html
http://www.webhostingstuff.com/uptime/Rackspace.html
P.P.S. If you do choose 34sp send me a PM as I might get a referral bonus!
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Well,
fasthosts is a no go for certain, down time every month and that's not even scheduled.
hostinguk is good, I have not seen any downtime for years, CP is on plesk and I know you dont care about it but the support is UK based and these guys actually know what there talking about, sound like x-developers running it.
Rackspace - very good, they guarantee 100% uptime but every now and then when they do server updates they go down but they schedule it for unsociable hours and a email goes out way before.
Personally if your looking for uptime id say rackspace.
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probably won't need support what really interests me is the uptimes and bandwidth
what are your experience there?
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Maybe you got lucky Steve, because I have also used UK2.net and the support is zero, I have called them multiple times with no answer.
Maybe im wrong but that's just what I have experienced.
Personally myself, I would say these are good:
hostinguk.net - the support here is good
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HI René
I use UK2.net exclusively.
They offer 100% uptime Gauranteed.
In the last 3 years I have experienced 1 outage lasting about 2 hours (about 18 months ago.)
I have a reseller account which allows me Unlimited everthing.
They offer a range of services for individual domains including unlimited.
Their customer service can be less than excellent but their trouble ticket response is very good.
Hope that helps.
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