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[Zoom7000]

I've recently taken up a bit of simple web development by developing a website for my local mosque (Quwwat-ul-Islam). It's currently being hosted with a previous developer on hostgator.

 

I've had a lot of requests from other local mosques and businesses to develop their websites for them and I'd also like to get a website done for myself and also for further testing with WordPress. For the mosques and businesses, I would definitely need unlimited bandwidth and web space as they will have very high traffic and bandwidth demands.

 

Can someone please recommend the cheapest options possible (Funding is especially low in the charities and mosques) with good UK based support. Ideally support out of hours or 24/7 with free or local numbers (not 0845 or 0870 etc) will be very helpful as most of the work will be done outside of normal business hours (Usually at very unsociable hours!)

[GTX]

If you dont mind using a linux.

 

Get a low end VPS. It wont take much to run a few WP websites.

 

Eg: OVH

[mats]

Look into Wordpress multisite too - much easier to manage (& update) than lots of individual sites.

[Arreks]

I use 000webhost for that kinda thing (that's a referral link, you don't have to use it! just search 000webhost in Google), it's free if you don't want huge space/ads and is generally always online (like seriously, even my virtual private servers have worse uptime).

 

Wordpress installation is easy too, installing MySQL is very much a one click process and adding/managing the database is easy too. Then you just drag and drop the wordpress files into your public_html and run the install script!

 

In terms of domain, you can choose to be given a free subdomain or link your own.

[plexer]

Can someone please recommend the cheapest options possible (Funding is especially low in the charities and mosques) with good UK based support. Ideally support out of hours or 24/7 with free or local numbers (not 0845 or 0870 etc) will be very helpful as most of the work will be done outside of normal business hours (Usually at very unsociable hours!)

 

Not wanting much from the support then with those demands? If you're not paying much if anything for it then I can't see you will also get 24/7 support and free phone numbers they've got to make some money somewhere.

 

Ben

[rich_tech]

I would recommend hostpresto as I have been with them 4 years now, decent company in dealings I have had with them

[speckytecky]

Personally I've been totally happy with the service offered by a fellow Edugeek member who runs:

 

East Sussex Web | Web Design in East Sussex

 

Faultless service and superb value.

[007maths]

Vidahost.co.uk offer free hosting for charities. I helped with a website for a church and Vidahost were extremely helpful.