UK hosting

The hosting in UK is required if you are doing your business within the Great Britain. The main reason is the fast connection and adequate local technical support. Such hosting companies as phplab.co.uk or 123-reg.co.uk offer loc cost hosting plans with the starting prices as low as 2£ with free setup and domain transfer.

Before you start choosing the hosting, please note some important things of the affordable web hosting:

Web hosting features offered

PHP and ASP Scripts:
Even if you do not with to run the scripts and use active sites, the suppor of PHP, ASP and frontPage is recommended because the guestbooks, chats and forums require PHP or ASP support.

Control Panel:
Control Panel is an interface where you can access your website on the server, allowing you to set-up and subsequently update and customize your site. Web site owners use the control panel to manage their database, web hosting options, FTP and email accounts.

Free disk space:
Usually it is enough to have 50 MB of the free disk space. The site with tons of the images and graphics require large disk volumes.

Hosting bandwidth:
Many hosting services in UK provide the free traffic. For the small and medium sites it is not required to pay attention to the hosting bandwith. 3-5 Gb per month is quite enough.

Customer service and support

24x7 toll-free phone support is stronly recommended if you choose a new hosting for your new site. Another main thing is the knowledge base and FAQ where you can find the answers to the common questions manually and do not wait the replies from the staff.

Hosting uptime

The hosting can be free or cost a penny, but it is absolutely useless if their servers are down every other day. You should choose the hosting compny with the servers uptime at least 99.9% (a few minutes a month downtime, it is acceptable).

As for speed, web server set up and local area networks play a part in determining the speed of a website, the main concern of how fast your site is depends very much on the types of network connections. You need choose the hosting at OC-3 connection (155 MBit/s) or better.

See also other hosting types:

Free web site hosting
Shared low cost web site hosting
Local hosting (UK, USA, Germany, etc)
Dedicated web site hosting

UK Domain registration