Hosting

[loki]

Im currently using Innohosting for my VPS. Although it looks very American, they have servers in BlueSQ. After using A2B2 and VT6 for my VPS, all I can say is that these are a million times better. Uptime is around the 99.9% mark, service and support is friendly, prompt(even at 10.00 on a Sunday night) and reliable.

Also use Hostgator in America for shared webhosting. Same as above

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Lozza

Free domain name means free registration of a domain, or if you transfer your domain to them you will get a years (i think) renewal free.

Ok cool

10 email accounts means addresses so 10 x whatever@yourdomain.com

Whoa, that's a problem - I need far more "whatevers" than 10. Although I only actually need a few mailboxes, I use shedloads of different addresses on each domain. My current provider allows me an unlimited number of these, surprised that isn't the case here.

[Mark]

'Unlimited' anything in hosting is a fallacy. Try it - you'll soon find out.

My suggestion stands - rather than spending forever bouncing posts off 3rd parties and getting information that probably is accurate but may not be, go to the source. If you have specific requirements - e.g. 10 email accounts, 100 forwarders, list them and ask for a quote.

PS - you almost certainly want lots of email forwarders, not accounts. Email accounts = inboxes.

PPS - I'm not saying I don't want to help you either - I just think there's a quicker answer that will get you what you want. Vidahost at least will do custom packages to fit your specific requirements. Others may or may not do this.

[Haly]

I'd go with what Mark's saying too, be much quicker and you're bound to get what you want in terms of a custom package then

[semi-pro waster]

Vidahost are who I use and I haven't noticed any downtime apart from the scheduled although my use is purely for online storage and email. Queries have been responded to very quickly by Dominic (I don't think he's taken over 15 minutes for any yet) and seems a thoroughly pleasant chap - must remember to email him later though as I'm having issues with Outlook Express picking up my mailbox, probably something I've fouled up rather than Vidahost though.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Mark

PS - you almost certainly want lots of email forwarders, not accounts. Email accounts = inboxes.

That was was I originally thought. Only need a few actual accounts/mailboxes, just need as many forwarding rules as I like as some of those mailboxes need 20-30 different addresses, all at the same domain of course.

PPS - I'm not saying I don't want to help you either - I just think there's a quicker answer that will get you what you want. Vidahost at least will do custom packages to fit your specific requirements. Others may or may not do this.

Fair point, I'll drop them a line.

[Toby]

OK well I went with Vidahost in the end and managed to get one of my domains transferred over to them without any problems.

Now I'm looking at moving another domain over but am having some trouble wrapping my head around things.

Support are telling me to use the Addon Domains option in the cPanel which seems to configure the other domain as a kind of "child" of the "main" domain. Is this the only way of configuring multiple domains!?

I have three domains I wish to host which are all totally separate and have no relation to each other at all. Do I have no choice other than to configure two of them as "sub-domains" of the other and what are the implications of this versus the completely discrete hosting afforded by my current provider?

[divine]

Originally Posted by semi-pro waster

Vidahost are who I use and I haven't noticed any downtime apart from the scheduled although my use is purely for online storage and email. Queries have been responded to very quickly by Dominic (I don't think he's taken over 15 minutes for any yet) and seems a thoroughly pleasant chap - must remember to email him later though as I'm having issues with Outlook Express picking up my mailbox, probably something I've fouled up rather than Vidahost though.

Support is brilliant and in the past have even helped me install/setup stuff on my hosting such as shoutcast when I was getting confused and couldn't do it. At about 2am.

edt - you want the 'parked domain' option in cPanel

[Joe 90]

Streamline.net do my web hosting.

love em.

last time i had a problem their CEO contacted me to ensure things were okay and take any comments I had on potential improvements \o/

[Mark]

Originally Posted by divine

edt - you want the 'parked domain' option in cPanel

Not for independant domains. That's if you want to link two domains together.

Addon domains is indeed the answer for a standard account. If the domains really must be seperate then you'll need more than one hosting account to do that (I'm sure they'd do you a deal).