Tuesday 22 December 2009

Live client - hosting package #2

The next host I've looked up is OVH.co.uk. This information comes courtesy of .Net magazine which gives a phone number to purchase the packages.



On their '60gp' plan, my client would get a package that serves her needs adequately:

Price: £0.90 per month, working out to be £10.80 a year. For the domain: footworksbysue.com it is listed available at £4.99, likewise for the .co.uk. Total incurred price would be around £20 a year then.

Storage: The online server will hold 600MB (which is actually appropriate as she will not be hosting video or music etc) and can serve 20GB of traffic each month. Even with the PDF downloads, it will never come close to reaching the maximum limit.

Email: 5 accounts available. This again would prove enough for my client, who would at a push utilise two.

Elsewhere in the package, a database facility is provided - this will be a necessity in light of wanting to install Wordpress, requiring one database.

Support comes in the form of email and phone, along with a web control panel. Although not always necessary, this would come in as a handy safeguard should a FTP or WYSIWYG program be available.

Importantly however, OVH.co.uk fail to provide a service level agreement. Bearing in mind the type of site my client will be offering, this isn't too major a problem, yet it would be reassuring to know how well this host has performed in the past with their online and offline status.

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