MikeCapon
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 09:13 AM |
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Web hosting
Hi,
I am at the point where I need to get a website on line for a project I am working on. A couple of questions arise:
Which hosting service provides good value? Price, reliability and accessible help? I have been looking at Orchard Hosting but are there any other
competitive solutions you would recommend?
How do I know what level of traffic to anticipate? Seems to be a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" to me but the entry level
packages at most places seem to start at 20 Gb per month. I can't really get my head around what that means in terms of volume or hits??
The site will probably finish up around the 2-3 Mb mark so I have no problem with server space. I am creating the site myself so I don't need
any creation tools.
Any advice please for a computer numpt?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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designer
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 09:20 AM |
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I use orchard hosting with no problems, and they have been very helpful what I had any problems..
Also, I use WYSIWYG to make the site as it's cheap and so easy to use.
Regarding usage, just 'suck it and see' and adjust as you go along.
PS. I'm a numpty too!!
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 09:25 AM |
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Thanks Derek,
What sort of level of traffic do you see for your site?
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tegwin
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 09:26 AM |
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I use Vidahost... started off as a "private" website and now have a re-seller account to manage all the websites I have.
They are really good, always respond to service requests... not have much problem with them atall...
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designer
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 09:37 AM |
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What sort of level of traffic do I see?
No idea!! I am a complete computer numpty, and most of this 'computer speak' is gobbledegook to me.
But all the figures are in a Control Panel you get, but if it's working I see no need to worry about what traffic I have.
But, when I did have too much traffic, and nobody could get onto the site, I contacted orchard and they increased 'something' for me FOC,
so I can have no complains with them.
I remember the word 'bandwidth' being mentioned a couple of times!!!!
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MikeFellows
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 09:39 AM |
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you wont do 20GB of bandwidth in a month unless you have something very popular or very cheap or both.
you estimate the site to be 2-3MB, this seem awefully low so I would say lets pretend 50MB
1024 (MB in a GB) * 20 (GB of bandwidth) = 20,480MB of data transfer
if everyone of your visitors looks at everything you can have 409.6 (20,480/50) visitors per month
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designer
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 09:44 AM |
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I will try to find out how big my site is as a comparison.
Might take me 2-3 days!!!!!!
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 09:46 AM |
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Ah Mike, Thanks for that.
Very reassuring and I can follow it. You can't possibly work in IT. You are too easy to understand
In any case if my site does get huge amounts of traffic and I have to upgrade to a dearer package I'll be happy.
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 10:08 AM |
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Am I allowed to hi-jack my own thread
Here goes anyway....
I want to put my site up under one .co.uk domain name but I would like to register the same under .com and a couple of other similar names under .com
and .co.uk
I want these other domain names to send people (for now) to the same site. How can I do that and will it just cost me the domain name registrations or
am I going to have to pay hosting for each domain name?
Sorry about the incredibly stupid sounding questions. I sometimes even struggle to work the remote control on the TV
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stevegough
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 10:18 AM |
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You have U2U, Mike.
Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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designer
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 10:22 AM |
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Why not just use .eu?
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MikeFellows
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 10:56 AM |
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use domain forwarding
register your main domain mydomain.com (can be anything .co.uk or .eu etc..)
then point your other domains to that
to get a better presence on the web use framed forwarding and you can use different meta tags and descriptions for each domain.
why not use .eu, because people prefer sellers in their own country, it doesnt matter that you might have mydomain.co.uk and mydomain.de i would take
both before using .eu
Mike
edit to add that domain forwarding is free, so you only need 1 lot of hosting. make sure you add all the domains to google analytics though, so you
can see where you customers are landing.
[Edited on 2/3/11 by MikeFellows]
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 11:46 AM |
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Mike thank you again. Noted and will follow your advice.
Derek, as Mike says customers expect to see a .co.uk if they are a UK customer. I'd just be interested in .co.uk and .com for now but would be
looking for .fr, .be etc as time goes on. Clearly too expensive to do right now but providing my domain name is unusual enough should be possible.
Also, owning the .com version of a domain name should tend to dissuade anyone from using it as .anywhere else.... I hope.
Cheers,
Mike
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designer
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 12:04 PM |
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If you want all the European dot whatever's buy them now and just keep them.
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 2/3/11 at 01:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by designer
If you want all the European dot whatever's buy them now and just keep them.
I would do but I've spent all my money on car books I bought off some bloke in the Vendee
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