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This web hosting review was started by Fequois on 2010-03-15 12:22:57:

Good afternoon, and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. Also, apologies for my first post being a request. I just found this forum through Google and, quite frankly, you seem to be much more informative than Google will ever be in this case.

Anyway…

Basically, I’m looking for a web host to host my small company web site on. I also want to host two separate blogs on it, as well as a forum.

Thing is, from my experience during the years with hosting, there’s always one problem or another. I really want good performance, since I (naturally) dislike slow load times. I tried MediaTemple late last year, and discovered since they are based in the US, the performance is really crippled. I’m in London, UK, so I suppose it’d be safer to go for a west Europe based host.

And I would like to avoid cPanel. If you can give me a good reason why to use it, feel free. But from my experience, cPanel limits control and is just generally slow.

Last thing I’d appreciate would be if all domains hosted on the account had their own home directories, so to speak. In my experience, cPanel hosts just put all domains under a common ‘public_html’ directory. I want separate ‘public_html’ directories for all domains.

Storage space isn’t very important, as long as it’s a couple of gigabytes ore more. Bandwidth… really no idea. Obviously not anything oversold, though.

Budget would be around £/€10, preferably less. Can go a little bit higher in case of something exceptional (especially if it has re-selling capabilities, I could go higher).

I’ve been looking at something called HostQuay, but I’ve never heard of them before. I’ve also used Loopia in the past, but as they charge for additional (more than 1) SQL databases I can’t deal with it any more at this moment.

I’m sorry for the long post, and I thank you very much in advance. Any aid or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Fequois

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