Hosting required

DS2495 · 12th August 2008

I run an existing site which is around two years old. I am on my second web host and I'm at the point I'd like to burn their building down! It's fair to say that I am less than satisfied.

Some details and requirements.
Server: Shared or dedicated - I'm open to suggestions. I want to manage nothing except the website itself though.
Size: Around 3GB and growing. RAID 1 would be of interest.
Transfer: Around 35GB a month and growing.
OS: Windows - site is written in ASP and running from a MS SQL database (so SQL database space is required).
Forum: There is also a phpBB forum attached using a MySQL database (PHP support and MySQL database required).
Email: Exchange email hosting required (currently only three mailboxes). Webmail required too.
Backup: (Daily?) backups required.

After the support disasters I've encountered I am keen to work with a company that does what they say, as opposed to one which just tells people what they think will make a sale. So, I'm looking for 24/7 support with a decent level of SLA (it doesn't have to be five nines, but it needs to be honest!).

It's a major pain in the a*se to move everything and I don't want to get a few months down the road and be in the same situation. I want a solution that I can rely on, but I don't want to pay Rackspace prices!

Thanks in advance.

Dhosting · 12th August 2008

We could do this on our shared platform depending on what you want starting from £59.99 per year Web Hosting - UK Hosting Services - Dhosting all the way up to £25 p/m for business class hosting.

If you want a managed box we can do something from £199 per month with the MSSQL DB stored on our systems.

Intel Xeon Dual Core 2.33Ghz, 1333FSB, 4Mb Cache
2Gb DDR2 ECC Memory
250Gb SATA Hard Drive
1,000Gb Bandwidth per Month
Windows 2003 Standard
99.95% Uptime SLA
External Monitoring 1min Intervals HTTP, Ping etc
24x7 Phone Support
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We can't do the exchange hosting though we can provide SmarterMail which works exceptionally well!

JamieBeeston · 12th August 2008

Hi,

With Register1 you can have a QuadCore 2.5Ghz Xeon, 1GB Ram, 250GB HDD and 2TB of Monthly Data Transfer on an uncapped 100mbit port for as little as £49 per month.

Just check out Register1.net Dedicated Servers for more details.

othellotech · 13th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by DS2495

Server: Shared or dedicated - I'm open to suggestions. I want to manage nothing except the website itself though

Then shared is definately what you want.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DS2495

Email: Exchange email hosting required (currently only three mailboxes).

What features of *exchange* are you using ?

DS2495 · 13th August 2008

Chris - Your packages don't seem to go above 4GB of storage which isn't enough unfortunately.

Jamie - Could you detail the database options (1 x MySQL and 1 x MS SQL) and email details please? I must say that it does concern me when I can't see a phone number on a website. Could you provide more information on support please?

Rob - Sorry, it probably doesn't require an Exchange server but I want to be able to connect using Outlook as the email client. I should have made that clearer.

Any more out there?

Dhosting · 13th August 2008

We can do as much disk space as you want just give me a figure and you will receive a price.

We always say if you don't see what you want ask

othellotech · 13th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by DS2495

Size: Around 3GB and growing. RAID 1 would be of interest.
Transfer: Around 35GB a month and growing.
OS: Windows - site is written in ASP and running from a MS SQL database (so SQL database space is required).
Forum: There is also a phpBB forum attached using a MySQL database (PHP support and MySQL database required).
Email: *ability to collect by outlook*

The DC-Hosting Dual OS Reseller Plans would be very suitable, giving you the best of both worlds - Linux for the php/mysql forum and Windows for the asp/mssql - we are rebuilding the plans to have more diskspace, so from £50/month you'd have 4Gb ...

PM/Email me with any questions

JamieBeeston · 13th August 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by DS2495

Jamie - Could you detail the database options (1 x MySQL and 1 x MS SQL) and email details please? I must say that it does concern me when I can't see a phone number on a website. Could you provide more information on support please?

Hi,

As it would be a Dedicated Server, you'd be free to install any software / databases you required, as such there would be no limits on Databases, Database Sizes or exchange requirements.

We could even Have MySQL and MSSQL 2005 Express preinstalled for you.

Register1 offers 24/7 support via our Ticketing System, if you refresh on our homepage you'll see hundreds of reviews, the vast majority of which specifically mention how quick and helpful our support is.

We do offer a 24/7 telephone support service on Register1s Managed Services Parent company Serverstream, however the prices do reflect this and I fear would fall outside of your budgetary constraints.

Rest assured the ticketing system is extremely useful.

*BionicInternet* · 13th August 2008

Bionic Hosting can offer the following:

* 10GB UK Web Space
* 150GB Bandwidth
* PHP 5
* Unlimited MYSQL Databases
* Unlimited Email Accounts
* £5 Monthly Cost
* £60.00 Annual Cost

With regards to exchange, why not use IMAP? Works just aswell. Included in all of our hosting packages.

Web hosting Specialists providing website Hosting, Hosting Support, Dedicated Server, VPS & Reseller Hosting - Bionic-Hosting

blacknight · 16th August 2008

Blacknight (Irish Host) can offer you:

Unlimited E-Mail addresses + antispam/antivirus (you have complete control over these settings)

10GB diskspace
100Gb monthly transfer
30 websites
MySQL 4+ 5,
MS SQL,
Postgres
Php 4 and 5
Asp.net 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5 support (windows only)
Choice of Linux or Windows

Our delivery platform is based on Parallels POA and PBA data centre automation suites backed by half a million euro worth of Dell and EMC kit.

Our network consists primarily of 12 Juniper routers split between 2 Data Centres in Dublin with resilient 2.5Gbit/s CWDM wave lengths. We've approx 4Gbit/s of transit and 2 Gbit/s of private peering.

We obviously offer a 30 day money back guarantee.

The price? 4.95 / month or 49.95 / year EURO, approx 3.9 GBP in todays exchange rate.

We also have our Medius and Maximus packages that have 20GB of disk, 200GB of bandwidth, 30GB of disk and 300GB of bandwidth for 8.95 euro and 14.95 euro resptively.

adamsmith · 16th August 2008

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