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UK hosts at US prices. Do they exist?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by norfstar, Aug 24, 2005.

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    I've got a few UK-centric sites with .com domains which I'd like to see appear in the regional search results for the UK - therefore I'm going to need to find a British host for them.

    However, it seems that all the UK hosts I can find have much higher prices than their counterparts across the pond. I don't mind paying a little more - but the £2-3 per GB bandwidth that some charge seems way too much.

    Does anyone host their sites in Britain? If so, where and for how much? I'm looking for a host that can provide the following:

    Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
    ImageMagick.
    Multiple domains for no extra fees.

    Minimal disk space is needed, but these sites are relatively high traffic so bandwidth costs are an issue.
     
    norfstar, Aug 24, 2005 IP
  2. jewellery

    jewellery Guest

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    I've used these before and they've got great prices:
    http://www.sonnethosting.co.uk/hosting/plans.php
     
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    dct Finder of cool gadgets

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    just-4-teens Peon

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    i too have heard gd things about sonnet but have never used them
     
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    UK hosting for some reason has always costed more, I surgest what DCT said, ive seen some good reviews about them
     
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    I've used united hosting with great success in the past. They're a UK hosting provider but their servers are located at the EV1 facilities in Texas.
     
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    norfstar Peon

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    Thanks everyone for all your suggestions - I think I've narrowed it down to between two.

    Unfortunately United Hosting isn't an option - as the server needs to be physically located in the UK in order for Google et al to see it as a UK site.
     
    norfstar, Aug 25, 2005 IP
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    dct Finder of cool gadgets

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    That's the primary reason I went with cloock and not one of my existing providers.
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    I'm with Claranet. No ImageMagick though I believe. Moving to RackSpace next month. Now that;s a proper host!

    Have personal accounts with Flump and Webhosting UK. Second is Helm which I hate by now, Flump is OK.
     
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