Hello all, I've been with 1&1 for a few years now and have had a fairly decent experience with them. I host about a dozen websites but use a relatively small amount of space. However, I need a few different features now and was wondering if the lovely people here can help. Here are the features I want:

- Cheap (esp. to transfer from 1&1), easy to understand domain hosting that I can use up to 20 or more domains on
- cPanel with Fantastico OR some other way to get Joomla, Wordpress, osCommerce
- About 4Gb space max I think, probably use much less, but a reasonable amount of traffic because the sites I am developing will have videos, powerpoints, etc and I want to stand a chance of having plenty of bandwidth left over for using it as a file dump for my recording studio too!!
- Never used technical support but if it's better than 1&1's I might
- UK-based data centre for Google.co.uk ranking and speed
- Access for 'customers' to Joomla/Wordpress etc control panels
- Lots of FTP accounts so 'customers' can upload to their own web space

Hope that makes sense, I'm not really looking for reseller hosting because to get it from a decent host will probably be too expensive.

Am totally baffled by concerns over transferring domains, email addresses etc and am after a host I can be with for a while as long as their price is right.

I've been paying about £9 a month with 1&1, am happy to up that a bit for access to all these PHP-based applications and some usable tech support.

Many thanks for your help!

Nik

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