[BNM] Hosting

[Chris Billett]

I use a host called United Hosting (www.unitedhosting.co.uk) who are
absolutely amazing, in my opinion. They have full details of their
capabilities on their site, but I've seen them bend over backwards to
accomadate people in the past, so you might be in luck even if they don't
support them in basic packages.

It's worth noting that whenever I've had a support request with them
(including on Saturday, when I uploaded a binary .htaccess file like a
dipshit and screwed my hosting completely!) they have got back to me
litereally in a matter of minutes, and solved my issues immediately. Even
when they're my own fault.

Glowing enough review? Haha.

> Good afternoon,
>
> We are looking for a good UK based hosting company. I have a few client
> projects that need hosting, but I'm also looking to host one of my own
> sites: www.fanchants.com ­ it plays recorded audio files of footy chants,
> is
> fairly popular (currently 2,000 visits, 17 pv¹s per visit /day and rising)
> and consequently fairly heavy in bandwidth usage, as each chant is
> previewed/ played ­ we have over 1,500 chants listed. We¹re just about to
> launch the version 2 of the site so keen to make the switch for launch.
>
> The following is what we need:
>
> A UK IP address ­ for Fanchants isn't currently classed as a UK site by
> Google, as it doesn¹t have either a .co.uk domain nor UK based IP address.
> FastCGI
> Python 2.4+
> Mysql 5+
> Automated backup?
>
>
> For the client sites it would be ideal to have a dedicated server in the
> long run.
>
> For Fanchants though a cheap virtualserver might do the trick.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as it¹s a right buggers
> muddle
> trying to find anything decent through Google.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
>
> Business Without Borders
> Suite 2, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ
> +44 (0)7843 696813
> www.withoutborders.biz
>
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