[SWLUG] Any Good Linux Hosting Services in South Wales?

[Paul Jefferies]

As noone appears to be biting you can have my tuppence worth ...

I've used a couple of webhosting providers in the UK (studentwebhosting and 
hostingunlimited). From my research most seem to offer pretty much the same, 
for about £40 you can get a PHP / MySQL account with ftp and cpanel (an open 
source admin system, like webmin(?)) access. Most of these allow a phpBB (or 
similar) system to be installed at the click of an icon (hostingunlimited, 
in common with several others use fantastico to make this easy).

FWIW you can usually get all this + several email accounts + ftp access ... 
for about £40-50 p.a. This seems to make V21 a bit over priced, no?

Shell accounts are another matter. Why do you need one? If you think you 
need it for standard web serving you don't. Most companies only sell SSH 
with their colocation / dedicated server packages - presumably to prevent 
abuse from hackers destroying their web servers!? Colocation/dedicated 
appears to start at about £40-50 per month!!