Re: FN-FORUM Really cheap hosting

date posted 6th January 2002 18:32

Chris
As I mentioned I was going off my clients experience
of Portlands service which was very good and friendly apparently.
From your account it seems, as is usually the case, you get
what you pay for. It's early days with my clients hosting on
Portland. I hope things don't take a turn for the worse as you
suggest. As for domain name registration how can they believe
they will get away with charging £36. I never looked beyond the
frontpage of the site myself. just passed on a recommendation
from this forum. Oh well at least now I can prepare myself
for a phonecall :-)

> I also had loads of problems getting a domain transferred,

I had a similar problem a couple of years ago with another
hosting company. I simply stopped calling them and went
straight to Nominet who had my domain name moved within
a few days. I even got a courtesy call when everything was
fixed. Very helpful.

Darren

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Green" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Really cheap hosting


> Hi,
>
> Jumping/ranting in!
>
>
> I would only recommend portland for testing purposes only, heir free
hosting
> is down a good percentage of the time, and both me and a freind have had
> very bad experiences with them.
>
> Their support to say the least is less than professional!
>
> Recently a freind went over his free bandwidth at 1pm on the 31st of
> November, rather than just pulling his site for the rest of the day, they
> demanded something like £15 for an extra 1Gb of bandwidth. and as his did
> not pay, they closed down the site witout warning!
>
> I also had loads of problems getting a domain transferred, and have never
> had a single response from their tech support other than containing
insults.
>
> Also don't even consider their domain name registration, at I think £36
for
> a .co.uk its a complete rip off!
>
>
> That said, Its a great service for testing or learning PHP/MySQL! But not
> for anything that needs to be indexed by search engines or is wanted long
> term!
>
> My personal favourite at the moment is oneandone.co.uk, its cheap ~£11 a
> month for 300Mb and 10Gb with no ads! Plus you can host 'unlimited'
domains
> on one package and over the last 6 months its had very little downtime at
> all! When needed the email support is grand, and quick, but the telephone
is
> one of the premium rate numbers which ain't so hot!
>
> If you don't mind ads, it does one for 99p a month or £1.49 without, but
not
> sure if you can FTP to it or have to use their builder!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 3:02 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Really cheap hosting
>
>
> > no idea regarding Yahoo but you could try -
> >
> > www.portland.co.uk
> >
> > it was mentioned on the forum recently and seems
> > v. good offering totally free hosting without
> > banners/popups. May a s well host everything there
> > at that price. :-)
> >
> > I passed the link to a client and he was very pleased
> > with the service.
> >
> > hth
> >
> > Darren
> >