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personaly i would stay with the web site provider, at £48 per year its not that bad, a bit of advertising for the whole nation to see
Free is bad and will in the end cause you problems, oh wait it already is.
Good hosting...is a wonderful thing and once you get used to it you will not begrudge paying for it. Seek experienced companies with tech support that you can get hold of. Avoid any companies that do not offer telephone support.
The trouble with free hosting is the lack of support, if your not atleast FTP savvy to upload your website then you will struggle
As Phil said £4 a month with support is pretty cheap, if the providers were previously reliable why change
Also if you got your domain name through another provider this should really be moved as well, as you and/or the new host will need access to its settings to change the DNS server address to the new provider or your site and email will not work. If you bought it yourself through GoDaddy for example you can do it yourself
HTH
have found Hostpapa's £106 for three year deal pretty good. Support is quite quick and helpful.
Agree with some of the comments - "Free" is not always good - a lot of online services have done this - get you hooked on a few services and then roll in the charges, knowing that apathy and lack of tech knowledge traps a lot of clients.
However, £4p/mon is cheap to host a business website if you are happy with the service.
Sorry, meant to add: We use FASTHOSTS and have done for years.
We are happy with it, good support, online status system of all services, easy control panel access etc etc:
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/web-hosting/
I'm sure it is one of many such suppliers that LJN members use.....
Sarah, I'm with the microsoft too. Always knew it was going to start charging. At £4 per month I have no intentions of changing to another host.Hhave they offered you a 6 month free trial
This happened to me, and I was so annoyed with microsoft for doing it. I have left them and will not use them again.
I have set up a new hosting account with a small UK firm called Posilan, and the guy Steve has been very good with his tech support. Cost is £20-ish for the year. I would recommend them. He has helped with the online chat help function as well as remote control of the pc to get some of the setting up done for me at no extra cost.
I refuse to stay with Microsoft as I think they have a cheek to kick my website off their hosting service and tell me I have to set it up again on a new service. This is inconvenient and rude.
I am in the process of organising to get my site built back up. May try and get more familiar with wordpress.
Sarah,
Strongly recommend these guys based near you, in Worthing..
http://www.liquidsix.com/default.asp
Used them for years, first class support.
Starts at just £9.95 +vat pa, which includes stats and ftp uploading pages yourself, and you can upgrade as and when you need more bandwidth.
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