Re: FN-FORUM: hosting for the UK?

date posted 22nd January 2008 09:43

So who is the best person to tell me how the email and hosting are
setup? I am dealing with a company that has lost all their login
details, etc... and knows their providers but not sure who deals with
what...

Claire.

David Nye wrote:
> In my experience, buying domain registration and hosting from the
> same supplier usually results in problems when changing hosting
> arrangements later. You may also be relying on the hosting company to
> renew the domain on time. I use 123reg for domains and OpenHosting for
> hosting; happy with both, but I have not compared service levels with
> others recently. Perhaps more importantly, I discovered the hard way
> that it is definitely not a good idea to use the free mail forwarding
> service of the domain registrar... Their servers are frequently
> black-listed resulting in the loss of some mail, so my advice is to
> always take the option to use your hosting supplier's name servers.
>