looks good (assuming unlimited bandwidth means unlimited transfers per
month - presumably so, though for how long, I wonder) ... the 0.5GB
storage seems a bit tight - they also offer 1GB /unlimited / one
domain at £32pa, 2GB / unlimited / two domains at £48pa, and 3.5GB /
unlimited / five domains at £89pa - hmm, difficult to judge !

The Apple offer of 20GB / 200GB at £59pa looks pretty good & foolproof
- but the domain(s) having to come from somewhere else is not so good
!

Chris



On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Eric MEARS<Eric.Mears@...> wrote:
>
>
> I can recommend Compila's 'bargain plan'. For £19 +vat per year you'd get
> 500MB of storage, a free UK domain (only one – but I’m not convinced that
> having the similar ones with different suffixes is any real advantage),
> unlimited email accounts & unmetered bandwidth. It also offers a couple of
> mySQL databases, password-protected folders & PHP support.
>
> http://compila.com/pages/hosting/overview.html?a_aid=9c409c2e
> <http://compila.com/pages/hosting/overview.html?a_aid=9c409c2e&a_bid=7bbee0b
> 6> &a_bid=7bbee0b6
>
>
> I use one of them for a school website I run
> (http://www.khormaksarschool.org.uk <http://www.khormaksarschool.org.uk/> )
> having been recommended to them by a chap who uses them for a website for
> another school I attended (http://www.old-lewesians.org.uk
> <http://www.old-lewesians.org.uk/> ).
>
>
> The 500MB of storage offered by the bargain site seems more than adequate
> for any normal ‘starter’ website but if you really wanted more, Compila
> would do you a 3.5GB package (with a few more ‘extras’) for £89 +vat per
> year. If you’re wanting to store a lot of photographs (a very ‘greedy’ use)
> then keeping them in something like Flickr is much more economical than
> buying extra webspace.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Eric Mears
> CHESTERFIELD
> Derbyshire
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chris_j_hunter
> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 1:33 PM
> Looking at costs, much depends on how many domain names are required ... for
> 20GB storage & 200GB transfers per month, 1&1 would charge £300 per annum,
> with first three months free, and Apple would charge £59 per annum, £89 for
> a falily pack, with first sixty days free ... both include web-page software
> & e-mail facilities ... 1&1 throw-in ten domains, Apple none(*) ... ... for
> £60 per annum, 1&1 offer 1.5GB storage & 20GB transfers with one domain-name
> ... and for £108 annum, 1&1 offer 4GB storage & 40GB transfers with three
> domain names ...
>
> (*) 123reg would charge somewhere between £6 & £62 per two-years per domain,
> depending on ending (two-dozen to choose-from), or just £1 for one with .eu
> ending ...
>
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