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rebecaelliot · 5th March 2008

hey guys
i was just wandering what you guys would consider a value for money average web package what you expected from a host theese days

let me know as all infomation will be a big help

Bekz X

Jon-NC · 5th March 2008

Depends on what you require.

Be a bit more specific and we'll give you a rough idea.

othellotech · 5th March 2008

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Originally Posted by rebecaelliot

would consider a value for money average web package what you expected from a host theese days

one that comes with the features you require at a price you're prepared to pay based on the quality of that particular service

£10/month for an ecommerce site, turning over a £1,000,000/pa is *NOT* value-for-money when the oversold server dies underthe strain of all the "unllimited diskspace" accounts and is off for 8 hours while the child running the "host" is in school.

£1000/month for a fully redundant, multi-server, multi-datacentre, loadbalanced, fully virtualised, 100% uptime service is similarly not value-for-money to host BOTH pictures of your cat

Ask yourself questions like "how much will I lose if my site goes down and the host is uncontactable by phone 24/7/365 by english-speaking trained staff" - its from answers like that you get value rather than simply thinking £2/month is good-value £200/month is not

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Cyberprog · 6th March 2008

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Originally Posted by [inx]Olly

Rob do you feel like a stuck record?

Careful, he'll start telling you how much better vinyl sounds to newfangled cassette tapes...

rebecaelliot · 6th March 2008

Thanks "othellotech" i get your point.

rebecaelliot · 6th March 2008

Im not quite sure how to explain what i mean in more detail what would you consider a average personal package "basic package" as many people call them; like size transfer that kind of thing.

othellotech · 6th March 2008

Experience shows that across the range of "personal" sites, space usage varies from 5Mb to 2Gb with it "averaging" at 23Mb and very few sites use > 1Gb of transfer.

That space is *excluding* email storage, as thats more difficult to calculate averages for, some people are "tidy" and collect by pop3 and take advantage of the spam filtering, so although they get a lo of mail, there's never much on the servers. Others keep everything going to 1812 no matter how trivial and leave it all on the server or use IMAP

rebecaelliot · 6th March 2008

thanks you just saved me 30 min on google lol

rebecaelliot · 6th March 2008

How many people are running a shared hosting company as their only source of income "come on dont be shy"

TDMWeb · 6th March 2008

Some very woolly and disconnected questions there, rebecaelliot... If you're a bit more upfront on what topic/s you are researching and who exactly you are researching them for you might get some more response

[inx]Olly · 6th March 2008

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