online shop

[smitch6]

www.christianhosting.org.uk

but as always i'll have a deal with ppl

[smitch6]

i always thought it was on my signature lol maybe not :~


but it is now

[JSR]

www.christianhosting.org.uk

but as always i'll have a deal with ppl

I hope you'll get plenty of new customers. It's always better when you know the person in charge. A few years back, I offered hosting packages as well but I eventually settled down to just doing it for friends, family, and friends of family.

[smitch6]

thanks JSR

[GoldRapt]

www.christianhosting.org.uk

but as always i'll have a deal with ppl

No Disrespect intended, but Pauks host seems to charge for a year whilst yours is by the month. Im with Heart, who should I choose if I move to you or paul please?

[smitch6]

i charge yearly and you get a discount also

pls check the prices

silver for instance is £3.99 pcm or £40 PA which equals to a good saving

[smitch6]

ooooo i apologise it doesn't actually say yearly prices on there oops
i'll get them added asap

my apologies i thought the yearly prices were on there???

yearly prices are on the front page now
they were on the comparison page already, but i thought i had them on the front page oops

thanks for pointing it out to me

[JSR]

No Disrespect intended, but Pauks host seems to charge for a year whilst yours is by the month. Im with Heart, who should I choose if I move to you or paul please?

Hmm, asking a hosting supplier which is the best to use might not get you a reply that's entirely impartial..! :biggrin:

One thing to bear in mind when looking for hosting is that you get what you pay for. Many hosting companies cram far too many websites onto each server. They do this by "overselling". They promise you many GBs of space, loads of databases, huge great wodges of bandwidth, fully in the knowledge that you'll never use that much. And, if you do use what you think you've paid for, there'll be something in their T&C's about "fair usage" so they can kick you off if you use it. Having so many websites on a single server is never a good idea for the end-user, it's only good for the seller.

There will be some legitimate sellers that won't do that, of course, but finding the good suppliers from the bad ones might be a tricky task.

I would recommend:

1. Keep copies of all your files and data in case you need to move elsewhere,
2. Never pay a full year in advance until you've tried the supplier out, otherwise you're out of pocket if you have to move elsewhere. If you run into trouble, they're more likely to sort out a problem quickly if you control the purse strings - you could stop paying them next month. If you've paid 12 months in advance, they've no incentive to sort out a problem because they already have your money.
3. Never buy/register your domain name with the company that supplies your hosting, otherwise they could make it difficult when you want to move elsewhere. If your domain name is registered through someone else, it's a simple matter to point it to a different hosting company when you want to move. But, if the hosting company registered your domain name for you, they're not going to be quick if you want to move to someone else because they'll stop getting your money when that happens.
4. Never use proprietary software/apps that is only available from that hosting supplier, otherwise it'll be more difficult to move elsewhere.

In short, don't tie yourself in with a single hosting supplier. If there's trouble, you need to be able to move swiftly and quickly to ensure that your website experiences the least possible downtime.

Also, if you plan to run software such as OpenCart, make sure you check the specifications and find out what the hosting company's upgrade policy is. There's no point installing software that needs PHP 5.3.x if the hosting company is still running PHP 5.2.x. Likewise, if it's your responsibility to keep the software updated and you fall behind, consider that a server upgrade to PHP 6.x could kill your website. The same applies to versions of MySQL, Apache, and anything else the software requires. You need to be aware of server updates/upgrades.

If the hosting company is not keen to discuss such things with you, look elsewhere.

That'd be my advice, anyway.

[smitch6]

brill points there JSR as always

i am very lucky with my host in the fact that they have alocated me a whole server and as i'm still a small company and don't want to get into the league of the big boys, mine will never get overloaded
it is super fast which is even more handier hehe
always handy to be-friend the owner of a company and deal directly with them as you can get a lot more

if a host doesn't provide certain software or support then yes start looking for a new host
i had a dedicated a while ago that wouldn't allow multiple connections from the same IP
as my wife and i use mobile wifi to connect we both have the same IP so my server was blocking the 2nd user

i wasn't impressed and gave them every opportunity to resolve the issue as i'd been with them for a while and slowly got a bigger server over time
they couldn't get it sorted and kept telling me it was a problem my end but it only happened when i got this paticular server.

once i changed hosts and got a new server hey presto all was ok again, very strange as it baffled everyone but they weren't willing to help so lost a good customer as it was a dedicated server so worth a lot of money each month.

i need my own server rather than shared as my chat room won't work on a shared server
and it's only because of that that i decided to start web hosting as i had loads of space spare and knew i wasn't going to use it

[JSR]

i need my own server rather than shared as my chat room won't work on a shared server

Having my own VPS proved very useful today.

I discovered an issue in which OpenCart conflicts with certain server rules that protect your data from what's known as "cross site scripting". The problem was caused by something very minor that certainly isn't a cause for security concern, but it was being picked up by the server and, as a result, my customers couldn't view my OpenCart website.

The problem isn't well documented on the OpenCart forum, which is probably to be expected as it's free. It isn't specific to OpenCart either, because other software could fall foul of the same issue (software such as Drupal), but it clearly wasn't an issue with my previous ZenCart.

Once I'd narrowed down what was causing the problem - by getting my Facebook circle and Paul-the-DSF-superman to try viewing my OpenCart - I was able to check out my server logs and then adjust which rule was causing the issue. At this point, I could tweak the rule and fix the issue. You learn something new every day...

Yes it's been a bit of a stressful time, but if I didn't have access to the server's back-end, I would be fully reliant on the host to help resolve the issue. And that could have meant that it would have taken days to fix rather than an hour.