Ian Griffiths

I'm looking to move corsasport.co.uk to a more reliable web host. The site does 10gb pm and growing and needs cgi, php and ssi. Any recommendations? TIA.

DazV

Nildram are cool - but you pay for the performance.

Lee

You'll have mail

ChrisB

I was going to recommend Lee but then realised we offer hosting at work. Doh!

Ian, I'll drop you a mail from work tomorrow.

Chris.

Blow Dog

Nildram

The best out there from what I have tried, they are reliable, VERY fast but it is a little expensive.

My site is hosted with them.

Cem

Ian Griffiths

Thank you all for the input, particularly Lee who took the time to cover some of my options. I've actually now bought some new hosting, a rush decision based on having a site currently closed. Anyway, I've been able to see what I can do with the site as and when it becomes more able to pay for its own hosting. Cheers.

Lee

Nildram pah - we are quicker

DazV

cheers Lee - I never knew that site existed -really informative!

One of my customers has an account with Fasthosts.co.uk - I'd be interested to know how they comare but they're not listed!

-DV

DazV

Lee, cheers for the info - ignore the email I just sent you chasing a reply.

Was looking at UkFast.Net which seems reasonable for £19.95.

As for UBB - I own a copy but I also need to run ASP on the same site so NT Server seems best. Haven't had any problems with it so far. Can you tell me otherwise ?

As for SQLServer - point taken - it IS bloody expensive but cheaper than Oracle! Looks like I'll have to check out MySQL.

Where does Cold Fusion fit in price-wise to the above and does it require a special server ?

-DV

Lee

The reason I suggest UNIX is purely because its a perl based app and so runs best on unix. There are issues with busy sites on NT, Scoobynet is an example, however I guess you have to weigh up the downtime against the uptime so again, using scoobynet as an example UBB on NT is ok. Just don't do searches

Me personally I am going away from UBB - I don't like the look/feel of ver 6.0 and its based from a flatfile concept. vbulletin.com is similar but db driven. fusetalk needs coldfusion and is priced nicely hence it suits me perfectly.

Coldfusion requires ..er..coldfusion on the server. All our win2k servers run it - we will be one of the first companies in the UK to provide hosting for Coldfusion 5.0 when its released in June. To write coldfusion you need windows notepad , or a package that understands it like macromedia dreamweaver ultradev.

Coldfusion is tasty indeed.

DazV

Been to SIWD site - downloading the 'Mascon' and 'DB Tools' now. Gonna have a blast on MySQL tonight when I get a little time.

As for your hosting packages - they look really good. I'll email SIWD with a couple of questions.

-DV

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Lee

Hiya Daz

laughable I added farcehosts to the list a while back. Average throughput about 150k/sec. It was a lot higher outside 9-5 so i presumed their office staff surfed a lot on the same leased line. 155Mb/sec - do me a favour, more like a 2Mb line.

My company is SIWD Performance Webhosting

ChrisB

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It's also wallet bustingly expensive if you buy kosher per CPU licenses!

Chris.

DazV

Lee, so which company do you work for? I'll check your prices out.

We're looking for NT hosting with:

-Full access to cgi-bin (to run UBB)
-ASP
-ODBC connection to Access database
-ditto for SQL Server

-DV

RichB

If you want your own dedicated server whether it be a Cobalt raq, NT box or even Apple Mac then you may like have a look at

Lee

Rich - I see you use PSINet - where are the servers and what sort of line ?

what does £1250 a year get you. seems pretty good.

ChrisB

PSINet might not be a good choice for long term stability!

RichB

Now I think I know why you mentioned PSINet We are 'currently' using PSINet...

We have a 34mb line in Bournemouth, there are no others that big around here and I doubt not many outside London.
We are cheap because we are not in London.

I will send you some literature. Contact me offline if you like... (I'm not in sales and am not fully upto speed though )

£1250 gets YOUR server in our rack *
20gb xfer p/m (Equivalent to 64k line)
burstable to 2mb
24x7 monitoring with email/SMS notification
secure remote reboot
daily backup
Sonic wall DMZ firewall
2 IP addresses for option SSL services
APC battery backup

*(assuming its a 1 or 2u server, additional cost if you want to put a monster relic of a server in there.)

You can also lease or buy servers from us.

Rich.

Lee

Funny, had this same chat with Chris over email.

I can get a server in telehouse with 20Gb (burstable to 100Mb/sec) for £60 a month. Mad eh.

tis funny - you say you are cheap cos you are not in london - others would say its expensive to host outside of london cos its pricey to "drag bandwidth to the sticks" (a quote from someone in the know )

However what you guys can do is the service side - 24x7 access, daily tape switches etc etc. I just build em so they don't fail :-)

Still get loads of people comparing UK prices to US though - madness. I can get a Gig for about 70c in the US !!