Best UK-based web hosting site

[terriwrist]

I've been with Zen Internet for a few years for a basic wordpress website and have not had any issue with them and they had decent support.

[woohoo]

Azure, It's what us cool kids use.

[LondonManc]

Azure, It's what us cool kids use.

On that basis, aws it is.

[TestMangler]

Jings, It's a bloody Wordpress site. I'll stick it on my dedicated box for you for £25 with a fully auto-updating WP install and CPanel access to your webspace. Unless you're planning to turn yourself into the next Facebook, you need nothing more.

[ladymuck]

Jings, It's a bloody Wordpress site. I'll stick it on my dedicated box for you for £25 with a fully auto-updating WP install and CPanel access to your webspace. Unless you're planning to turn yourself into the next Facebook, you need nothing more.

My brother's band have wordpress on some guy's box for £25 a year. The performance is tulipe because it's not the only wordpress instance he's running and he refuses to let them have FTP access to enable decent updates and management. Not saying you'll behave the same way but there can be issues with initially kind offers of hosting.

[TestMangler]

My brother's band have wordpress on some guy's box for £25 a year. The performance is tulipe because it's not the only wordpress instance he's running and he refuses to let them have FTP access to enable decent updates and management. Not saying you'll behave the same way but there can be issues with initially kind offers of hosting.

Thanks for your input. Difference is, as stated in my post, he would have access and the performance isn't tulip because I don't stick all and sundry on it. But come on, it's a wordpress site. Would need to be on some right tulipty box with right tulipty pipes to be poor with the kind of traffic it'll get.

[Spoiler]

I run ~6 websites, mainly WP but also 1 Joomla and a static. When I started out getting into creating sites, I used to love doing it all myself, and the AWS thing would have been perfect.

But ... I then started getting paranoid about WP security so loaded on a bunch of security plugins. And then paid for a backup service.

In the end I was spending too much time messing around, so just migrated them all to Siteground. Binned off the extra security plugins. They take care of all backups. If something goes wrong, they are pretty good at sorting it out - even if it's not directly related to their hosting. All is good !

Have used Vidahost also in the past, but prefer SG now.