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[cykophysh39]

I have been looking into this company, www.fasthosts.co.uk as hosting providers as they seem pretty cheap, and offer the reseller package, and was wondering does anyone here use them?
if so what are your opinions?

[dang65]

I've got an ASP.NET hosting package with them and it seems fine so far, though I haven't exactly put much stress on it or anything - it's just for self-education and trying things out. I've just got the Access database option too, which is fine for my purposes. The initial set up was very quick and easy I must say.

Will now await flood of horror stories from other punters.

[jimjamuk]

i used to use them for a while - used the shared server setup. Then one day all our websites were shut down - all i got out of them was that we had breached the T's & C's - couldn't tell me what we had done though - feck3rs!



now using webfusion quite happily



jimjamuk

[scotspine]

they're awful!

[Burdock]

I found it frustrating how your domains had to be managed through their sister company UKReg...meant often having to deal with two web sites and control panels. Also I had several web accounts with them that could not be managed through the same control panel...very frustrating.
plus their tech support was nothing special. overall, wouldn't recommend.

[chicane]

My overriding memory of the Fasthosts reseller package is the silly hidden charges they started putting everywhere when they realised that they couldn't make much money on a £50/month unlimited domains ASP/PHP package on its own.

[chubba]

Not touched reseller but as a dedicated server host they really sucked ass.

[JaredM]

For dedicated servers take a look at UK2, their price has always been great and recently they've overhauled their support so its much much better now.

For shared hosting there are literally hundreds of good providers out there, be sensible in what you're after and you'll be fine. (i.e. avoid 'unlimited bandwidth' offers).

[woo]

isn't it still amazing, they all charge you more a month for hosting extra hard disk space than you can actually buy it for.

E.g add extra 100gb adds £50 a month. You can buy 500gb for that.

[chicane]

isn't it still amazing, they all charge you more a month for hosting extra hard disk space than you can actually buy it for.

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