ipower as host?

vesco · 11th October 2007

I live in N.Ireland and currently have my site hosted by a British company but i am thinking of transferring to ipower.com in America. Are there any drawbacks to moving a site to an american company? thanks

JamesSykes · 11th October 2007

Depending on the provider the connectivity may or may not be very good. In which case you need to decided if that's acceptable for your visitors. Generally it is advised that you host in the same country as your target market.

Another thing to take into account are search engine listing. If you have spent alot of time/money on building on that it might negatively impact your listings to be hosted in another country.

nitrohosting · 11th October 2007

First question - what are your reasons for transferring?

BurtyB · 11th October 2007

Drawback of moving to "any" American provider is you might lose your "UK" status in search engines.

iPower don't have a good history from a security point of view as i remember and took months to clean up after being hacked.

ChrisB.

vesco · 11th October 2007

thanks for replys

Why would my search listings be effected by moving to another country?

I want to move because a designer set up the host nearly a year ago and i'm being charged £120/yr for i think 250mb storage, which i think is expensive. I now have complete control over my domain (after alot of hassle!) and now i want control over which host i use. Also ipower says it gives 300gb storage and 3000gb bandwidth for $6/month.

Any UK hosts you would recommend? thanks

BurtyB · 11th October 2007

It depends if people click the "pages from the UK" bit in Google (and other search engines too I guess), then being hosted in the UK will make a difference and if you stick a post in the request section I'm sure you will get some competitive prices for UK hosting.

ChrisB.

JamieBeeston · 11th October 2007

You could always just go for a cheaper UK host whom, whilst not providing unsustainable telephone number levels of disk space, will still be able to provide you with far far more than you'll ever need.

Jon-NC · 11th October 2007

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Originally Posted by JamieBeeston

You could always just go for a cheaper UK host whom, whilst not providing unsustainable telephone number levels of disk space, will still be able to provide you with far far more than you'll ever need.

Quality over quantity would sum that up.

nitrohosting · 11th October 2007

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Also ipower says it gives 300gb storage and 3000gb bandwidth

Vesco, if you worked in the industry and knew how much things cost, you'd know that was suicidal pricing without a *huge* level of overselling.

First tip is not to go with the providers offering the most for least, but those who offer what you require at a sustainable price.

Row · 12th October 2007

Hi Vesco,
You should post a request here:
http://www.webhostchat.co.uk/forums/...isplay.php?f=9
(Use this forum to make requests for hosting services or related services and products)
I'm sure you will get some competitive quotes

vesco · 12th October 2007

thanks for all the info dont think i'll go for that American host after all, cheers