OT: Your thoughts appreciated on...

[d-type]

[ukvac] OT: Your thoughts appreciated on...

Hello All,

I have a large handful of domain names registered with Easyspace for
myself and a few
other small businesses that I deal with.

Mostly I use these for simple email and website forwarding to other
accounts.

The Easyspace control panel has become more and more complex and
difficult to use over
time and there is no phone number on the site for support.

Does anyone here have any experiences positive or negative about this
sort of service
with other providers, as I'm thinking about moving the whole lot?

I have had a look around but there's so many that Google finds that I
don't know where
to start!

The main reason I've been with Easyspace so far is that they were
cheap and simple, but
now I'm not so sure.

Please be objective! Most people tend to say "Oh yes, my ISP is by
far the best, waffle
waffle, waffle" and have no experience of other services. Whilst this
is useful, please
consider the bad bits of your service as these are the ones I'm
trying to avoid!!

Your thoughts are appreciated.
Tkx,
D-Type.

 

[LukeWells]

Re: [ukvac] OT: Your thoughts appreciated on...

I use myself as a host.

I have been very happy with the service I have provided myself. I didn't
even charge myself extra when I needed more diskspace, which was really nice
of me.

I can provide actual physical hosting at a decent rate, I even accept arcade
parts as payment. However I dont have a domain name registration control
panel, so you'd have to get that somewhere else.

Luke

 

[John Bennett]

Re: [ukvac] OT: Your thoughts appreciated on...

I use www.1and1.co.uk

Domain registration is fast and first class.

I find them cheap and easy to use and it's easy to add extra options to your
package as you see fit.

The control panels used to be a bit hard to follow, but a few months ago
they revamped everything and now it's easy.

Web forwarding, email redirect anything you want to do.

I used to use plus.net but we had a falling out over my usage when I was on
their 'unmetered' dail-up and I found their domain packages a bit pricey.
They may be more competitive now, however?

Just my 2p worth.

Regards,

Paul



DATA Imported from archives: originally posted by Paul Holdsworth (newsgroups@buyhard2.2mydns.com)

 

[guddler]

Re: [ukvac] OT: Your thoughts appreciated on...

I was using easyspace for a while but i didn't like the way that a lot of
their free things crept in to start being chargeable. Like their unlimited
email service suddenly had a 2mb storage limit unless you paid extra per
year and shit like that.

So then i moved guddler.co.uk to a mates hosting package which was
ultraspeed. For him mind it was also ultra expensive. He was having over a
million hits a month on www.thesims.co.uk at one point and was paying
HUNDREDS per month for it (i think one bill was over £900 for a month!!!).
That wasn't so much a problem but with that amount of traffic the server
kept going down and as it was essentially our box we were renting off of
them mail and everything was on the same box so every time thesims went down
so did my mail.

In the end i lost it with the situation and had a look about.

I plumped for Streamline.net after looking at a few. For £99 per year i get
to host up to 10 domains. If you are transferring existing domains it's
free, new domains obviously cost for the registration, but for 2 years on a
UK domain it's £8.50 so not over the top.

Choice of Linux or Windows servers, mysql is free, unlimited space and
unlimited bandwidth (yep, i queried this and apparently it's true, their
largest uses over 4GB per day and that's still free). There is a space limit
on email now (wasn't disclosed when i started with them!) of 500 messages or
20mb. This can be upgraded though for ££ i guess.

Okay, there's a downside to everything!

Cheapness comes at a cost and that cost is customer service. They advertise
24/7 technical support. Unfortunately their idea of 24/7 is an email address
that is responded to inside office hours. Hmmm...

And it doesn't look like i'm ever likely to get a sniff of a phone number
out of them which just plain sucks.

As for reliability. I'd say average. Yes, the sites do go down occasionally,
but to be fair i think they would with ANY host unless you plug your own
server in to the net. Normally they're back up and running fairly quickly
although when i first started it seemed to be a case of when someone got
into the office the next day which was obviously terrible...

So, they were very ropey to start with, if not appauling but things have now
settled down to very good and obviously extremely good value for money, we
will see how it continues. I've just ordered another domain on my account
for bazfish so i'll see how that one goes.

Thinking about it, i'll also forward this to their customer service email
address and see what their comments are on my little "review"!

JM£2W,
Martin.