Where do I host my new website?

[TelephoneTree]

It needs to be bomb proof as it's my shopfront. Is Go Daddy any good?
Also - do I have to be hosting it before I can set up my email etc...

[WestmorlandSausage]

go daddy is absolutely fine

[TelephoneTree]

apparently they have dodgy ethics ?? and prone to problems. Are they all much of a muchness?

What about nativespace? Do you know about them? The person doing my website said to steer clear of Go Daddy but I just have no idea about all this.

[wyrdyBird]

These guys are very good
//www.vidahost.com

Probably best to have your domain and hosting ready, before you set up email. But your website doesn't have to be ready.

[wyrdyBird]

Don't go to godaddy

...one of the less upsetting links.

[TelephoneTree]

Thank you both.
wyrdyBird - I was told that cloud hosting wasn't the way forward but I can't remember why. Do you think it's a problem?

[MissBattleaxe]

I'm with Bluehost. Seven months in no problems at all.

[TelephoneTree]

Just looked up Bluehost - I'm in the UK and I think I need somewhere in the UK incase of problems?

[wyrdyBird]

The vidahost cloud package is, by all accounts, very user friendly and easy to use. And quite cheap! :)

If you prefer to stick to standard, shared cPanel hosting, they still offer it here
www.vidahost.com/cpanel-hosting

[wyrdyBird]

Hm, repeating myself slightly there ... distracted by the football. ;)

[MissBattleaxe]

Telephone, I'm UK based and Bluehost are really speedy and operate 24/7. They even rang me from San Francisco the other day to see if I was happy so far. I was!

[GeekyElspeth]

If your site is UK based you should really have UK based hosting. Search engines take server location into account when ranking websites.

I'm a freelance web designer and host all my clients sites with tsohosts. Most of my Web design friends do. Great prices and the best technical service I've ever had

[wyrdyBird]

I have heard good things about tsohost too.

They have joined forces with vida, to become the Paragon internet group, so a good strong team building up there.

Elspeth makes a good point about server location. If your target audience is in the UK, you would be better off with UK based servers, for search engine ranking and site loading speed.

[TelephoneTree]

Thank you so much - I'll look them up. Sounds good!!!

[TelephoneTree]

Is it normal to have to pay £30pm for email??

[GeekyElspeth]

If you're talking about tsohosts dedicated email servers they're more for sending mass emails (to thousands of people) general email boxes are included with all the hosting packages including the £15 lite one.

How big is your website?

[TelephoneTree]

Ah I see, ok that will suit me I think. Thank you!