Where to get e-mail...

[Scuby]

Originally Posted by Bantam

I have the basic business package £8.99 a month, and it's great. It does have mySQL and so-on, you get loads for your money and you can easily segment different websites on your webspace. Works great!

I looked at that one, but it seems a bit of a shame to pay an extra £50/year for a mySQL database. I might end up doing that though, not quite sure yet. I've just signed up for a 1&1 email account thingy (~£10 for the year) so I can have a look and see what 1&1 are like before committing to anything more. E-mail really is something I need sorting out soon, the web hosting would be nice, but not essential, and can wait. I've only got 2 weeks to sort the e-mail out since it expires while i'm away on holiday :O(

David

[Mick F]

I use www.icdsoft.com & find them pretty good. PHP, mySQL, unlimited POP3. All for something like $50 per year.

[Pen Simon]

Originally Posted by Bantam

(We host our own web servers in house now on a clustered set of servers because we were getting issues with the hosting provided by MCI (yes, MCI!!) where servers would fail and because we were only paying £500 a year we had no SLA and the customers who were more important on the higher support rate got priority. Our website went down for 3 days because of this - lost revenue was huge.)

Interesting - I assume you now also have a backbone connection to the internet then for your own web servers otherwise with any decent level of traffic, your websites would be very slow to load?

[Scuby]

Right well I appear to be up and running fully now. Took a while for the DNS to go through (as you'd expect), but seems to be happy now. I went with the 1&1 e-mail only service (about 69p/month or something silly like that), seems fine.

I'm still going to look out for some webspace, but leave it til later in the year - i'm already involved in 3 or 4 different websites at the minute, and if i get my own webspace i'd only get distrated doing one for me too! That ICDsoft one looks good though, might look into them later when i'm ready to sort the webspace out.

Cheers everyone.

David

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by Pen Simon

Interesting - I assume you now also have a backbone connection to the internet then for your own web servers otherwise with any decent level of traffic, your websites would be very slow to load?

Yup. We host in a Co-Lo (Point of Presence) so we've 100Mb connection to the internet. It's also multi-homed with 4 Internet connections all coming in at 100Mb so if one carrier goes down it drops onto the second choice and so-on for 4 choices.

Cost? Not much. I think we pay £20k a year for the rack space and the 100Mb Multihomed connection.