Hosting - recommendations everyone

[The Fat Boy]

Can you recommend a good hosting company?

[affboy]

Hi there, im using Heart Internet, great technical support and their reseller account is a bargain. Their servers are Apache running PHP on. take a look! www.heartinternet.com

Affboy

[scifind]

1and1 are good - I have had no problems with them. BUT other members of this forum have so you may wish to hand around for another reply,

[daveh]

Where is your target audience located, this will determine where your hosts servers should be? There are quite a few UK hosts who only have US based servers which is no good if you require a fast website response for UK visitors.

[hrbs]

have you thought about a vps?
I host many sites and a few reseller accounts on a vps from a2b2.com
(256Mb 30GB Disk 300GB Transfer with cpanel/WHM approx £24 + VAT p/m[semi-managed]) ~will upgrade to dedicated later this year.

Regards

Keith

[Shine]

I've used 1&1 for my UK sites for a while (servers are actually based in Germany though). No major issues, particularly when you take the price into consideration

In the US I use Bluehost who have been great, top notch technical support at all hours.

[The Fat Boy]

Guys - thanks for the responses. I have one site that needs UK based machines and I've used netpivotal and active23 in the past but I can't really give them much of a recommendation.
Shine - thanks for the info about Bluehost - we have a US site about to go live.

[shyguy0507]

You could also try amenworld.com, they have absolutley fantastic support

[hrbs]

for US servers I use rochenhost.com (premium reseller). My server is at the Planet in Dallas. Uptime here http://uptime.alertra.com/uptime.php...893&id1=639651

No complaints - been excellent (2 years)

Keith

[The Fat Boy]

thanks again

[valD]

I've used 34sp.com for a couple of years, with no problems at all. My experience of their technical support has always been positive - every email to them has had a courteous, helpful reply from a human within 24 hours, including over a bank holiday weekend.
Their servers are in Manchester, so suitable for UK-oriented sites.

[The Fat Boy]

valD - thanks