Hi,

 

I have been asked by someone to host their website as they are currently unhappy with their current provider. They go through someone else from what I can gather and would not want to sort it out themselves. Once I get up and running with my web designing I was unsure what I should do with regards to web hosting. Is the normal protocol to advise people on where they can get a hosting package from and do the signing up for them but leave the rest up to them after that? or do you pay a subscription to a hosting company and then charge a monthly subscription to your own customers?

 

I had been looking online for a good hosting package and http://www.justhost.com/ came up as the best from http://www.thetop10bestwebhosting.com/uk/

 

Have you guys come across this company, have any thoughts about them or my dilemma?

 

Many thanks

Just remember that those top10 hosting sites tend to be affiliates of the hosts they're recommending. Surprise surprise... it usually turns out that the hosts listed in the top spots pay more for each referred customer than the lower down hosts. So be careful when it comes to using those sites for research - you'll want to do your own google searches on any hosting company you're looking at considering and try to get a views from as wide a range of sources as possible.

Bethlou, Have you ever come accross an unlimited harddrive?

Bethlou, Have you ever come accross an unlimited harddrive?

 

I guess not.

Hiya BethLou

 

Was looking at this the other day, when a customer of ours jumped ship from them to us, and see that there actually "Just Develop", who are a UK company, who do development, and have just started hosting..

 

But, from looking at their website, they really are blatently overselling, and dont provide anything other than 2 identical shared hosting at 2 different prices, leaving you with nowhere to go should your website really start to consume "unlimited resources".

 

The fact that they dont provide anything above shared hosting really leaves things VERY limited, as you would seemingly have to go elsewhere if your website out-growns shared hosting, which is easy to do with a few adverts in the right places.

 

Isnt it also REALLY fishy that they already have "awards for best host 2009" on their website, yet were only 10 days in?

 

Sorry, but I'd totally go with what DarrenL said too, in that all of these "top 10" websites sell their top 10 list positions to the highest bidders.

 

We were also offered a spot on the top 10 list at webhostingstuff.com for "the right price" and ever since that day, we no longer even ask our customers for reviews/feedback @ webhostinstuff. Its just not right at all, yet they dont see the obvious deceptions they are creating by allowing people to buy their way to the top instead of actually earning it.

 

Check out the actual reviews for companies on a lot of these top 10 lists and you would be amazed..

 

Dont let the hugeee numbers and promise's of all things unlimited draw you in as their will always be much small print to ensure you dont get what you pay for.

 

With regards to "normal protocol", this can really boil down to how you want to play it.

 

Some prefer to stick to being the professional designer and therefore recommending a good company that their clients should host with and doing like you said, signup for them, or go through the signup process with them, that way the hosting company can support your client directly, and you too when needed, and some prefer t charge the client for hosting directly and sort it all out for them.

 

The only downside to the latter, is that your client will come to you for absolutely everything, so you will end up supporting them directly yourself, which can get fairly tiresome if you have many customers, and they start calling you at all hours, plus of course you will then need a way to bill them regularly, and if you put too much profit on top, you then become very expensive, for not much profit.

 

But thats just a "quick rough guide" sort of..

I use Hostmonster and I am very satisfied with the service that they provide. I also hear that Hostgator is very good.

 

Good luck

 

Jute

Bethlou, Have you ever come accross an unlimited harddrive?

 

 

Doesn't it also depend upon a hosts setup.

 

For example, they could have lot's of Hard Drives all connecting to each other/ perhaps a grid network that can host unlimited files because it's shared across multiple Hard drives?

 

Also you will find that hosts have policies against the use of all that Disk Space. e.g. A file sharing website could end up being fraudulent, or a video hosting site could have copyrighted material, I think hosting companies are clever with their terms.

 

Plus you wouldn't really want to have a large video or file server site within a shared hosting environment because the performance would be sooo slow. You would need a dedicated server...but they certainly wouldn't come with unlimited disk space, perhaps bandwidth, but I found that once you reach a certain peek or traffic they simply slow your connection right down, which is how they get around the "Unlimited" aspect.