Hi there,
Finding online praise for web hosts is far more difficult than finding
unhappy customers. It is quite possible for a good small service to
not have a mention online at all. Almost without exception, hosting
directories are biased towards affiliate partners.
I urge you to visit WebHostingTalk before signing up with any service.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com
Be wary of any services that offer "unlimited bandwidth", and read
their Terms of Service very carefully. Bandwidth and customer service
are a host's major expenses. Storage and "extras" cost them little.
Be wary of any service that sounds too good to be true.
My pick is UnitedHosting. It fits your criteria, they are upfront
about how much disk space and transfer you get, lots of favourable
opinions and their price is not unbelievable.
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UnitedHosting
http://unitedhosting.co.uk/resellers.php
10 GB Disk Space
100 GB Transfer
100 Domains (additional £4 per 25)
£50 per month
Your logo in control panel
WebHostingTalk - lots of favourable comments
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=1190699&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending
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FastHosts
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/indexa_reseller.html
???? Disk Space
Unlimited Transfer*
Unlimited Domains
£50 per month
Custom branding
#1 choice at Webspace Magazine
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/01_awards1.html
"The Internet hosting specialist has just secured 10th place in the
prestigious Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu European Technology Fast 500
awards - which identifies Europe's 500 fastest-growing companies."
7 Jan 2003
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/07_press10.html
Fasthosts.co.uk - have they improved?
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=138780&highlight=fasthosts
"The problem is that when they are good - they are very good, but when
they have problems they are rubbish!"
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off&th=e617c63f42e0d908&seekm=7q8O8.5924%24GP6.166254%40newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net&frame=off
WebHostingTalk - many discussions
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?s=ae3521809b053ef01e618591df8e5857&action=showresults&searchid=1190673&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending
*High bandwidth usage: Fasthosts offers an unlimited use policy by
maintaining very large ratios of bandwidth per customer. In rare
cases, Fasthosts may find a customer to be using server resources to
such an extent that he or she may jeopardize server performance and
resources for other customers. In such instances, Fasthosts reserves
the right to impose the High Resource User Policy for the
consideration of all customers.
Comment: I get the impression that they used to have reliability
problems but have greatly improved in recent times. There is talk of
hidden fees and poor customer service. Their TOS is woefully small and
I find it hard to recommend a service that does not state specific
values for bandwidth and disk space.
TOS
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/Index_07_terms.html
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DonHost
http://www.donhost.co.uk/products/resellerunix.html
Unlimited Disk Space
20 GB Transfer
Unlimited Domains
£39.99 per month
Customized Control Panels
Plenty of negative comments
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=1190720&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending
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Aventure Hosting
http://www.aventurehosting.co.uk/resellers/
1 GB Diskspace
20 GB Transfer
Unlimited Domains
£11.52 per month
Customized Control Panels
Comment: Couldn't find enough comments about them to form an opinion,
but the price is suspiciously low.
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WebFusion
http://www.webfusion.co.uk/reseller-info.shtml
Unlimited Disk Space
10 GB Transfer
Unlimited Domains
£50 per month
Your logo in control panel
Having problems recently
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=1190765&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending
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Penguin
http://www.pingu.co.uk/services_resellers.htm
5 GB Diskspace
30 GB Transfer
Unlimited Domains
£349.99 per year
Customized Control Panels
Comment: Couldn't find enough comments about them to form an opinion
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Search strategy: webhostingtalk.com, google groups, google search
Keywords: site:.uk reseller "control panel" logo
Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga |
