Web Site Hosting

Recommendations

A selection of web site hosting companies.

HostRocket.Com

HostRocket.Com gives you 200MB of web space, 10GB data transfer, PHP4 for the most up to date ecommerce enabling support, mySQL for your database, SSI for secure online transactions, CGI for interactive forms and dynamic web pages, FTP for easy transfer of files to and from your webspace, TELNET for direct access to the server command line, FP2000 support for compatibility with Microsoft Front Page, Subdomains for multiple site URL's.

All this for $9.95/Month with No Contracts! 30 Day Money Back Guarentee and Instant Account Activation.

HostRocket.Com

Easily.co.uk

This web site is hosted in the UK on an Easily web server. I chose Easily because I was impressed with how much they offered for such a low cost. They have a unique pay as you go pricing structure so you only pay for what you really need and don't end up subsidising larger business sites.



The entry level is domain name hosting which includes web forwarding and multiple email forwarding. This is great for hiding that long url that came with your free web space.

Example pricing:

Product	Price	Notes
.co.uk domain name	£9.99	For 2 years
.com domain name	£35	For 2 years
Basic website	£9.99	Per year
Virtual Hosting	£35	Per year

These figures are only for guidance, please check the Easily website for the latest deals.

I chose the virtual hosting since it offered 100megs of space with Perl, PHP, cgi-bin, sendmail, SQL database and FTP. Plus it was easy to transfer my urgentclick.com domain name to the web hosting package.

Easily.co.uk