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Ive just created my first website. Its currently being hosted on a friends server, but going forward he requires £18 a month to host it. Is this the going rate or should I look around for cheaper?
Looked at CloudSite (all in one sorta thing) but when I tried their trial it turned out it was too slow to have so many photographs on it.

If anyone wants to have a look its here www.LondonFineArtPhotography.co.uk any critique/advice/opinions are welcomed.
 
£18 a month or £18 a year?

If £18 a month then that is expensive, it works out at £216 a year

To give you a comparison I use the top package from my host and it only costs me £49 a year
 
My hosting for my business cost £65/month. It all depends on what you need in terms of processing. Power, memory and storage.

Cheap hosting is generally shared which means you will share CPU and memory with (often hundreds of) other website. This means that if you have another resource hog on your server, your website will be affected.

VDS and dedicated hosting will allocated resources to you and you alone.

The more visitors you get, the more processing power and memory you will require.

I would ask you friend exactly what you are getting for £18 a month and then decide if you need that right now.
 
Good answer from Elliott @ecoleman there

My reply was based on shared hosting, things can and do get more expensive depending on your needs

I have done a quick check and it would seem you are hosted by names.co.uk and the only package that I can see at £18 a month is a re-seller package, so essentially your are paying for your friends hosting package each month - unless of course you have full control over the re-seller account.

Did your friend give your details of your hosting package?

As Elliott said ask your friend exactly what it is you get for your £18 a month
 
£18 seems a lot for shared hosting! i pay 20 us dollars a month for linode vps (about £12) with 2gb ram and uk ssd datacentre (40gb space and 3,000gb monthly transfer)
 
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I pay £60 per year for my .me.uk domain registration and 1GB web space with ICUK.
 
Its £18 a month. Not too sure what it offers? He's helped me set up the website and hosted it for me. He said if I want to continue him hosting it then its going to be the £18 a month.

I don't really understand most of it but I wouldn't have thought I need anything special. If someone has a suggestion where i can look or what sort of package i would require. The site isn't going to change much from what it currently is but the amount of pictures will grow.

Im not sure if its names.co.uk? Could be. Thats where he suggested I get my domain name from, and suggested I give their CloudSite a go. So maybe he does have an account with them. its £15 +VAT he's asking, so about £18.
 
I would avoid mixing webhosting and domain hosting - if they are kept separate it can be easier jumping to a new webhost if you become unhappy with them.
Other things to check are if they still use old fashioned magnetic discs or more up to date ssd discs - it makes a big difference.
Some hosts throttle bandwidth - any half decent host should essily max out a 80mb/s adsl connection when downloading - my old host used to throttle and it would max out at about 40mb/s.
Some hosts are mean on transfer volume - 1000GB per month should not cost more than about £5 per month
Also look for hosts that offer choice of data centre location (eg us/uk/asia)
 
names.co.uk do a 'starter' package for £3.99 +Vat.
 
I'd say £18 a month for a single wordpress site hosting is pretty steep unless you're getting through a pretty large chunk of bandwidth...

bearing in mind TSO Hosts will do 10gb of storage and 150gb of bandwidth, and allow you 6 different sites for £4.99 a month...
 
I suggest looking into nearly free speech, they offer the most secure and no bulls* hosting out there, and have been the best price for me. I have about 20 sites with them. Because it is pay for what you use, they don't have spammers hosting their sites with them, which means there is an equal workload and your sites don't get bogged down.
 
Seems expensive for a static site (or basic dynamic site). In the past i've used godaddy and 1and1 both significantly cheaper for your needs as i see them. I can't see a reason from this site why you would consider anything other than shared hosting unless your expecting thousands of hits an hour.

These days you shouldn't have caps to bandwidth and no disrespect I suspect you won't get the volumes of traffic that would cause any ISPs to hit the panic button
 
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Godaddy is considered pretty horrible in the world of designers and developers, and they are misogynistic dbags. If you really want to have pay once and have 'unlimited' resources and get mediocre hosting, there are various places you can get it like hostgator, 1and1, arvixe. At the end of the day, you will end up paying just as much, or more than, nearlyfreespeech. Though admittedly, maybe it is not as beginner friendly as others.
 
of course it depends what your trying to host, some of the ISPs listed would be no use for those running .NET sites. But for the OP worth exploring
 
Thanks guys.

Id love to be getting 1000s of hits a day, but i doubt that will ever happen.
Not really sure what i need, the site layout will pretty much stay the same just with more and more photos added.
I'll have a look at some that were suggested. I've tried talking to the guy that currently does it, looks like its not a conversation he wants to have. Im sure he will when he wants me to start paying tho.
 
At least wordpress sites are pretty simple to switch between hosts. Just make sure you back up all the content AND the mysql database file. Some people have been known to only back up their content!
 
The one word of warning I'd issue with the super cheap options is that most will be on shared infrastructure and likely virtual hosts running within virtual hosts. Heck for a fiver per month you can have your own server.

However I tried that twice and found the shared ip addresses to blacklisted as many dubious activity sites also get hosted from such providers.

Whilst it is also not necessary to pay £18 for a simple site like the OP, I wouldn't go scrape the bottom either.
 
I see that 1&1 has a cheap web hosting promotion for £2.99/month for their basic plan, which I found here. You can keep your domain and do a transfer to a cheap web hosting provider like them. Unless you are planning a major exapnsion to your current site, it might not be worth it to pay loads just to get hosted at the beginning. You can always upgrade your plan as you expand.
 
due to the fact ive been off of work for a year ive had to resort back to my old faithful which is a free website. still kept my domain name of dslrcreations and finally got around to giving the site a complete new look and overhaul, though still have alot of images to re add but slowly getting there.
i used to pay for dedicated hosting but as i know nothing about html, and all the rest of it i just couldnt get a website built to any standard so rather than paying someone to build and upkeep it ventured into the realms of DIY though the easy to use system builders.
took me an age just to figure out how to get a redirect on the domain name and taken me a year to set up dedicated email address too!
 
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