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Squarespace is easy to get started with at £144 per year, includes your own custom domain that they host.
They always have sales/promo codes.

The company I work for uses 123 Reg for many of our projects if you're just looking for a reliable/cheap-ish domain host.
 
vtsy said:
Squarespace is easy to get started with at £144 per year, includes your own custom domain that they host.
They always have sales/promo codes.

The company I work for uses 123 Reg for many of our projects if you're just looking for a reliable/cheap-ish domain host.
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Thanks. £144 per year sounds lot. How much storage would you get for that?

I used to use 123 Reg but, when I had an issue, they didn't deal with it very well.
 
This might help.

Basically, there's no "storage limit" really, but your site is limited to up to 1000 pages max, and things start to throttle at 400 pages. When optimising a site, you want to make sure you have a "web ready" version of your images anyway as your visitors won't want to load a 20mb image. The gallery pages on squarespace top out at 250 images, but you can have different pages with a gallery each.

For truly large data storage needs (eg. if you really want your 6000 x 8000 px image on your website), you may want to start looking to cloud storage solutions and having your website point to the image offsite to alleviate the load.

But for the regular folks, squarespace seems pretty good. There's also GoDaddy (interestingly still in business) - but reviews are very mixed these days. Google domains have moved all domains to squarespace now so they've become a "one stop shop" for many small businesses.

I've also used Webflow, Wix and Wordpress for CMS and web hosting/building - with my domains hosted on 123 Reg. Wordpress is clunky but "reliable" - but your website will be quite basic. Wix is awful, but good for templates and basic websites. Webflow is a more technically intricate Squarespace - very powerful, but you need to know what you're doing.
 
vtsy said:
Squarespace is easy to get started with at £144 per year, includes your own custom domain that they host.
They always have sales/promo codes.

The company I work for uses 123 Reg for many of our projects if you're just looking for a reliable/cheap-ish domain host.
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£144/year for a domain?

That's what happens when you have to pay for all those sponsored youtube ads.

I use Hostinger for my domains and IONOS for hosting.
 
ecoleman said:
£144/year for a domain?
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Whoops - Domain depends on the site name. Eg. mine costs £16 a year only for the domain with squarespace. The £144 per year includes the web hosting/building.

I've heard good things about IONOS, just not had a chance to try them.
 
vtsy said:
This might help.

Basically, there's no "storage limit" really, but your site is limited to up to 1000 pages max, and things start to throttle at 400 pages. When optimising a site, you want to make sure you have a "web ready" version of your images anyway as your visitors won't want to load a 20mb image. The gallery pages on squarespace top out at 250 images, but you can have different pages with a gallery each.

For truly large data storage needs (eg. if you really want your 6000 x 8000 px image on your website), you may want to start looking to cloud storage solutions and having your website point to the image offsite to alleviate the load.

But for the regular folks, squarespace seems pretty good. There's also GoDaddy (interestingly still in business) - but reviews are very mixed these days. Google domains have moved all domains to squarespace now so they've become a "one stop shop" for many small businesses.

I've also used Webflow, Wix and Wordpress for CMS and web hosting/building - with my domains hosted on 123 Reg. Wordpress is clunky but "reliable" - but your website will be quite basic. Wix is awful, but good for templates and basic websites. Webflow is a more technically intricate Squarespace - very powerful, but you need to know what you're doing.
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It's not for a photography site so I was hoping for a cheap, low storage solution. I'm only looking at a fe pages
vtsy said:
Whoops - Domain depends on the site name. Eg. mine costs £16 a year only for the domain with squarespace. The £144 per year includes the web hosting/building.

I've heard good things about IONOS, just not had a chance to try them.
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I had a look at Ionos. They're very cheap for the first year
 
TP is hosted on Ionos these days and we don't have any complaints - that covers domain, hosting, SSL, etc. I don't want to share details, but it's fairly priced.
I'm just about to launch a ham radio website hosting an ASP.net app, also on Ionos with Domain, Hosting, SSL, antivirus all provided by Ionos, but with SendGrid on the side for email handling. The main domain costs £8/year I think, the full package of hosting is hosting about £11/month.

Corrected - I just added up the various charges - it's about £25/month, for the base level of hosting.

However none of the above seem very relevant for a photography portfolio / ecommerce site. Zenfolio does that quite happily for me for a modest annual charge.
 
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Best place for domains is cloudflare. Both price and options hands down

I use krystal for hosting and seems to be working without anything disastrous at the moment, but that's not a guarantee that this statement will remain valid indefinitely and moving can be a right PITA.
 
Also take a look at "Unlimited web hosting”, I’ve used them for several websites and, found them to be very helpful if/when problems arise.
Very reasonably priced and, excellent uptime.
 
I’m using Squarespace for domains and website hosting for my two websites, Skye At Night and Lens57.

I find them very good and have recommended them to others who have also had good experiences. Support is decent, and if you want to sell stuff then their Commerce plan has some excellent features like shopping cart, product, international pricing and postage calculations, and integration with Royal Mail for printing postage labels and tracking fulfilment.

Yes they are pushed to death by photographers on Youtube, but it is genuinely easy to set up, use and maintain. Much easier than Wordpress that I used to use.
 
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Marc said:
It's not for a photography site so I was hoping for a cheap, low storage solution. I'm only looking at a fe pages

I had a look at Ionos. They're very cheap for the first year
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Incase you still did not find the perfect cobination, If its a small site and you wish to keep the hosting cost low with some good service try webhostuk.co.uk pretty good with 24x7 customer support and affordable costing.
 
I used 34SP.com for several years for domain and hosting (Wordpress). Always found them helpful.
 
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