SteveB_NI Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 I've been asked to produce a website for a local school, which unfortunately does not have facilities for web hosting at present. Can anyone cast their eye over this idea please before I commit the school to buying it (I have not purchased hosting for many years and would hate to choose the wrong one and waste their already limited budget). Hosting: http://www.dream-hosting.co.uk/gold.php Gold Hosting Plan – Dream Hosting - £19.99 / yr 1. 1GB disk space 2. 25GB Bandwidth / Month 3. 7 MySQL databases (PHPMyAdmin) 4. Add on domain name allowance 5. Unlimited email account (@yourdomain.co.uk) 6. Web based website control panel 7. Unlimited sub domains 8. PHP & Perl support Domain name: £7.49 (2 Yr Min) (.co.uk address) or (.com) The website is going to be coded initially in static HTML with CSS styling, although it will progress to a full Content management system designed via PHP and MySQL in a short time. I'm concerned about the 25GB bandwidth / month - maybe doubling that to 50GB / month would be better (hosting package costs £39.99/yr). Thanks for any help, Steven
plexer Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 What about bluehost.com? We use web-mania.com for our school site. Ben
SteveB_NI Posted November 28, 2007 Author Posted November 28, 2007 Sorry forgot to mention, it is intended the school website will be used primarily for the school newsletter, and gallery photographs of events - this could mean quite a few visits at particular times of the year. Looking into web-mania now - do you not find the 12GB / month somewhat restrictive?
plexer Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 In the last 31 days on the school website which is based on the edugeek joomla template we have transferred the following: 673mb 99455 files 18589 pages 2211 unique hits. Ben
contink Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 Having hosted a very photo intensive site in the past you're probably going to be fine with your original spec but you'll want to take a few precautionary measures as you design/impliment the site. 1. Make sure any photos are resized (preferably automatically) to a max dimension of 800 pixels in any direction and JPG or PNG compressed. 2. Screen any uploads, especially DOC's for massive images that haven't been resized externally (10mb newsletters have been a common issue at one school I work for). 3. Where possible try to use CSS rather than images and keep the code lean.. Beyond that, you should be fine..
greenfieldsupport Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 Do schools not host their own websites these days?? whats stopping you hosting it yourself?
SteveB_NI Posted November 28, 2007 Author Posted November 28, 2007 I work for a different school - it's a partnership scheme with a local primary school. They don't have access to web hosting like we do at the Secondary level. I'd rather they hosted it themselves - it's easier in the long term if circumstances change.
dan400007 Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 I maybe (well probably am) wrong but I thought the all RBC were went to provide web hosting facilities to and domain name to their schools.
Pumaedition Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 streamline.net are quite good as well I have found
plexer Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 There have been various discussions in the past on school web hosting including one that I started. We signed up for streamline and then cancelled it due to their inflexibility. Ben
greenfieldsupport Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 SteveB, be nice and host it for them, firstly A. it will cost them less and B. you would have more control. I think heart internet do domain names for ~ £2 now ?? Just give them some old 133mhz pc in the corner with Debian on, and forward their domain name to it
greenfieldsupport Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 although £19.99 a year, damn thats a good deal on hosting! you sure thats not a month seems as it includes mysql and such??
Guest Guest Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 There have been various discussions in the past on school web hosting including one that I started. We signed up for streamline and then cancelled it due to their inflexibility. Ben Why were they inflexible? Im asking as i was considering Streamline
localzuk Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 They don't allow you to change DNS records. Also, they are very inflexible if your site uses anything like mysql and they determine you as 'over using it' whereby the just cancel your account without any warning...
contink Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 Without wanting to teach grandma how to suck eggs I started out with hosting about 8 years ago and saw the likes of MCHost, and fasthosts when they were a bunch of rip off merchants... The industry may have matured a little but frankly the old saying holds true Pay peanuts, get monkeys Hosting inhouse is time intensive, requires a lot of time learning the ropes and if/when it all goes horribly wrong and some 7337 h4x07 tag shows up instead of your website you'll look a right chump. Find somewhere that supports the site, doesn't charge the earth but obviously has a good rep'. It beggars belief when everyone starts yelling "Aw, do it in-house, you'll be fine" when the truth is that a web-server admin role takes a lot of time to learn. £20 compared to hundreds of hours on google, etc.. when you could be resolving other problems and creating more stress for yourself just seems a little disingenious. And let's not go down the issues of security when you open your network! When it comes to hosting too... you gotta do the math. If a hosting firm is going to charge you £20 for a site for a year, they have to be bringing in at least 100 sites a month or more just to pay the bills so you have to wonder who provides the tech support and how quickly. Add to that, who are your server buddies likely to be if it's cheap as chips? Sorry, something of a rant this is turning into but seriously it costs money or time, and often your sanity... *sigh*... ok, time to get me coat..
Antp Posted November 10, 2008 Posted November 10, 2008 Hey, theres a guy on the forum called craig and hes offering £15 off all hosting packages for the equivalent package you should get the resseler package. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/web-development/25903-10-off-website-hosting.html
Netman Posted November 10, 2008 Posted November 10, 2008 We also ditched Streamline due to inflexibility and other issues. We now use CS New Media - Windows web hosting linux web hostng uk asp.net 3.5 SQL Server 2005 AJAX Helm reseller hosting plesk reseller - absolutely the best hosting service I've used and Carl's customer support is second to none.
chrbb Posted November 10, 2008 Posted November 10, 2008 I use supanames - for 3 different websites - for the past 4 years:) Budget hosting package includes co.uk name not let me down (yet - touches wood)
Messa Posted November 10, 2008 Posted November 10, 2008 I do hosting myself, as antp said.. i must say though im pelased that CS New media are 'bigged up' glad to see someone like myself trying to offer affordable hosting with great support. Too many hosting companies (especially the bigger ones) screwing people over..
Antp Posted November 10, 2008 Posted November 10, 2008 [quote=Messa;250609 Too many hosting companies (especially the bigger ones) screwing people over.. i agree Especially UK2.net DONT USE THEM AND
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