michaelab
Fri 2nd Apr '04, 7:32am
I need a UK based hosting solution as 90% of the members of my board are UK based and say what you like about the price differentials between US and UK based hosting but the fact is that UK based hosts are generally much faster than US ones for UK based clients. It's a simple fact of geography and network distances.
I'm currently on shared hosting with 1&1 (.co.uk) and despite the fact that some people seem to hate them with a passion I have been very pleased with their service and have had no issues at all. My members consistenly report my board to be the fastest one they use and I've not had downtime or slowness that I've been aware of.
However, one thing that's only in the small print and which I've only just become aware of is that they have a 100Mb limit on MySQL database sizes in all their shared packages :( . My DB is currently at around 75Mb (of which 29Mb is searchindex :eek: so worst case I could disable search if things came to a head). I don't really want to get into archiving threads so quite soon I'm going to need a bigger DB. The only way I can do this with 1&1 is to move to a dedicated host (either managed or root access) which means a monthly cost increase from £8.99/month to £29/month for the same 10Gb bandwith - ouch!
Does anyone have recommendations of a UK based alternative hosting company? Someone that will let me have a MySQL DB significantly larger than 100Mb, preferably a shared package with SSH access. I regularly have 30+ simultaneous users (max was 79!) and so far my 1&1 package has been able to handle that without problems.
Also, what's involved in moving a vB forum (+ a few other HTML pages) to a new host with the same domain name? What kind of downtime can I expect?
Michael.
I'm currently on shared hosting with 1&1 (.co.uk) and despite the fact that some people seem to hate them with a passion I have been very pleased with their service and have had no issues at all. My members consistenly report my board to be the fastest one they use and I've not had downtime or slowness that I've been aware of.
However, one thing that's only in the small print and which I've only just become aware of is that they have a 100Mb limit on MySQL database sizes in all their shared packages :( . My DB is currently at around 75Mb (of which 29Mb is searchindex :eek: so worst case I could disable search if things came to a head). I don't really want to get into archiving threads so quite soon I'm going to need a bigger DB. The only way I can do this with 1&1 is to move to a dedicated host (either managed or root access) which means a monthly cost increase from £8.99/month to £29/month for the same 10Gb bandwith - ouch!
Does anyone have recommendations of a UK based alternative hosting company? Someone that will let me have a MySQL DB significantly larger than 100Mb, preferably a shared package with SSH access. I regularly have 30+ simultaneous users (max was 79!) and so far my 1&1 package has been able to handle that without problems.
Also, what's involved in moving a vB forum (+ a few other HTML pages) to a new host with the same domain name? What kind of downtime can I expect?
Michael.