Chris
Living out in the sticks has it's drawbacks... the only broadband I can have, goes through BT lines. Currently I am on Freekserve/Wankadoo but
looking to change very soon, due to the recent very poor service from Wankadoo.
Does anyone have experiences (specifically webhosting) of good; or bad; Internet Server Providers - through BT lines please.
Let's out the bad providers - and praise the good!
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Originally posted by Hellfire
Living out in the sticks has it's drawbacks... the only broadband I can have, goes through BT lines. Currently I am on Freekserve/Wankadoo but looking to change very soon, due to the recent very poor service from Wankadoo.
Does anyone have experiences (specifically webhosting) of good; or bad; Internet Server Providers - through BT lines please.
Let's out the bad providers - and praise the good!
I'm with Pipex.
www.pipex.co.uk
They've been around for years and are very reliable. (I'm also in the sticks)
A 512Mb connnection is only £23.44 a month. This includes 50Mb of webspace.
Cheers.
I've been with BT for 2 years at my shop, and though I hate BT and the installation was a nightmare, since then it has been 100% reliable and
fast.
Just signed up with Tiscali at my new home as it's only £24.99 for a 1/2 meg line, I'll let you know how it goes!
second for pipex
fantastic service profesional and cheap
Freedom2surf 512 service but they do run higher bandwidth services through BT lines. http://www.freedom2surf.net/
I haven't had any problems with them and the only drawback is their helpline(local rate) is only open in office hours. I pay £22.99 a month but
they do a couple of cheaper cutdown packages.
Third for Pipex. Been with them for over two years, and never had any trouble. Also quite cheap with free connection.
Cheers,
Steve
Hellfire - what was wrong with the hosting I set up for you??
Chris
ChrisW - as my hard drive went to the large hard drive graveyard in the sky. I emailed you some time ago (September) last year IIRC asking you about
the settings. As they were on our old ID MKGoldrush, I think things got a little confused and in the end I didn't want to cause you any trouble.
Whilst I had just set up a new ISDN line with Freeserve I thought I'd use that instead. To be honest I'd rather host online with LB (no
ads!!) but IIRC the maximum space allocated is 2MB. We're currently upto 9MB and there is probably another 1Mb to go before it's
complete.
Also, at the time the ftp setup and info. part of this website was not operational, so I could not find out any information for myself.
I'd love to host all the website on LB - would I be allowed 10MB or possibly slightly more? 
You can have whatever space you want, within reason! Email me and we'll sort it out.
Chris
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Originally posted by thebutler
Third for Pipex. Been with them for over two years, and never had any trouble. Also quite cheap with free connection.
Cheers,
Steve
fifth for pipex
excellent, been with them for 8-9 years from dial-up to broadband, no probs.
recommend them to customers and no-ones been in and thumped me .... yet
I'll stand up and add support for pipex as well.
The alternative I would give would be nildram
BTOpenworld is now BT Yahoo --- really bad news the service is gradually becoming an AOL look a like very naff and increasingly non standard
internet and very big brother.
BT also do a cut price basic service which dosen't even give you a mail box.
BT news and more importantly mail servers continue to be unreliable and over stretched.
The problem with going to a non BT ISP is that if anything does go wrong with the ADSL side it can take along time to convince your ISP that they
need to get a BT engineer to look at the problem because your ISP will have to pay BT if no BT fault is found.
Having said that I have been very very impressed with ZEN internet on some of my clients networks --- you can get up to 8 fixed IP addresses at no
extra charge
Tiscalli also has a following.
[Edited on 5/5/04 by britishtrident]