Web hosting suggestions?

I used Penguin in Cardiff to host my domains and website for some time and had no problems at all. Customer service and advice was good.

I use Mythic Beasts:

Krystal are good.

Been with them about 20 years, absolutely no problems, they are always very helpful.

Theo

Why not rent a virtual private server and build your own? I pay around £72 a year with gigatux.

Or you can have a simple web server for a couple of folding ones a month.

I recently switched to them on advice from here and they seem a lot better than what I had before. Meanwhile my wife continues to get Waitrose emails from JohnLewisBroadband which supposedly terminated all its services at the end of June. Except now they say it'll be 7th August.

The irritating thing is she has to continue to pick up mails from there, rather than just stopping doing so, because as long as the server apparently stays up, anyone who's forgotten that she told them to send her mails to different address, won't be getting a bounce.

Anyway +1 to MB.

I switched the few domains I manage to them when TSOHost became expensive and have also been very pleased. But I switched them at the same time to email hosting only so can only vouch for good uptime, good comms and good prices. May be not so good if you want 24/7 instant access online support.

Can't she have them automatically forwarded to her new address?

Incidentally, my choir website is hosted by NetNerd, which has always been ok.

Mythic-Beasts' support is pretty good in my experience. I've not tried asking questions in the small hours but have always had satisfactorily quick answers at other times.

Hostinger has been good too.

TsoHost now only have 9-5 weekdays support!

I've been very happy with

This blog post explains why: no support staff.

OOI, is the changeover quick/easy? I have a couple of domains that I manage for others and they won't be too happy with a prolonged downtime . . .

Mythic Beasts looks a fair bit cheaper than my current provider, Heart. No complaints at all, but I woudn't mind saving some money, and trying out Wordpress.

It was seamless for me following their recommended method

I moved one of my domains from Heart to Mythic beasts as Heart had a spat with Yahoo and all my emails to Yahoo addresses were returned as spam.

Heart said there was nothing they could do about it.

Follow the 'how to move a domain and hosting' in the Mythic Beasts support files and it should be possible to move almost transparently.

Te changeover should be seamless. In technical terms you build the new web servers and test them using different domain address - so if your old servers are on

when it works, you change its internal name to

Over a periodi of less than a week all users will pickup the new IP address and you can decomission the old server

Wordpress is a well known attack surface. I'd build your own server if you have the ability - all these 'hosted' servers are a bit s**te, really. Because the methods of logging into them are well known and subject to exploits.

They lied of course. I recently had the same. I changed my DNS records to say 'yes, this IP address is authorised to send email on behalf of these domains'

Whoever you were using as your DNS provider for your mail domain should already have done that or notified you how to do it.

And seriously consider installing the free Wordfence security plugin

Supposedly they are now insisting on a paid licence, according to the reviews?

Theo