[Wylug-discuss] DNS Hosting Provider recommendations

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:39 +0100, Neil Pilgrim wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> [...]
> > I would go with the cheapest local web hosting provider I know
> > (web-mania - £20 per year for 500MB space, 6GB transfer, MySQL, perl,
> > PHP, ssh access - see http://www.web-mania.com/ ), but their DNS
> > services are rather ropey.
> 
> This seems like a rather good deal, but maybe I'm just used to less 
> value for money services - has anyone personal experience of their 
> services? Does 'ropey' DNS imply a negative review?

web-mania are York based (but host in RedBus - London, Docklands).
The web service has been pretty good other than the 2 power outages
RedBus have had this year (if you can find the information on those you
will find a relatively amusing description of how redundancy and
additional provisioning is just not up to competing with high level
idiocy).

The web services do what they claim.  Speed might not be the fastest
around but its pretty good.

The DNS comment was really very much in relation to my DNS requirements
- you can do DNS manipulations related to pointing names to bits of
webspace, but you cannot set arbitrary A records, or modify MX etc.

	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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