Live client - hosting package #3

The last of the hosting packages I think suitable for my client comes from Catalyst2.

Advantages:

Price - again, with my client's company being a start up and with a limited customer-base, it would be appreciated if the cost for the hosting could be kept down. The small package on offer from Catalyst2 comes in at £12 a year. Very competitive.

For this, you get 250MB of storage space, and again, as the site will be largely HTML and with only a few images, it would be unlikely to exceed this amount.

There is database support, phone support and a popular, but useful web tool - online chat support.

Downsides:

Again this host fails to provide a service level agreement, declaring how much you can expect the service to be online. But for £12 you can't expect everything.

You would have to purchase a separate domain at an extra cost, but as previously acknowledged, these are quite cheap at around £5 or £6 for two years.

In terms of traffic, there is always the worry that the site could become oversubscribed, shutting down activity for the rest of that month. The Catalyst2 package provides 2GB of traffic, which is a feasible amount for a site of this sort. The PDFs would likely pull the most on the server, but as these in themselves will be optimised and condensed it should prove adequate.

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Overall, Catalyst2 proves itself as another viable solution for Footworks by Sue. I will tender the 3 hosting packages I have blogged, to the client at our first meeting. The choice will then be taken and the online service purchased.

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