[sclug] ADSL and Web Hosting

[Simon Champion]

Hia,

Just to add a point here -- I notice the previous reply was recommending Plus 
net....  and if you were just asking about ASDL, I would be quite happy to go 
along with that; I have friends who use Plus net ASDL, and I've heard no 
complaints.

But you were asking about hosting as well, and I can tell you from first hand 
experience that Plus Net's hosting arrangements for anything more than 
straightforward HTML pages are diabolical.

I'm currently writing a php/mysql-based website for a friend of mine who uses 
Plus, and it's been a nightmare to get set up. You don't even get PHP support 
on Plus's basic home package, and when you do pay the extra and get it turned 
it on, their highly unusual configuration still makes things very difficult.

So my overall recommendation if you're after a company that provides ASDL and 
hosting would be to look somewhere else. There's plenty of companies that do 
provide fast ASDL who'll give you a much better hosting service than Plus.


Hope that helps.  (probably not, eh? ;-) )

All the best,


   SimonC.

(ps - I should point out here that I work for a company that does provide both 
ASDL and hosting, but generally to businesses rather than home users. In the 
interest of impartiality, I won't promote them here)


On Monday 20 March 2006 18:27, Scott Rixon wrote:
> That was the kind of answer I was looking for. It did have the 'one man
> band' feel to it.
>
> Time to do some digging on some nice ADSL deals.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
>
> David Herring wrote:
> > UKFSN are really a one man band, run by Jason Cliffard. There are fine,
>
> and cheap, but you won't get the support and 'extras' that a main
> supplier of adsl will offer (well maintained spam filters, etc). I would
> say ok to host a web server with (I do) but would not recommend getting
> adsl from them.
>
> > Plus net works fine for me for ADSL at home.
> >
> > rgds dave
> >
> > Scott Rixon wrote: