By baronmunchowsen on

Which is the best UK hosting company to host a Drupal website with. The hosting companies web servers must be UK based. At present I am having a little bit of a nightmare with a UK host (should I name them??? Okay - http://www.hostway.co.uk). I also have sites hosted in the US with Dreamhost - I am looking for a UK equivalent as these guys are awesome!

Many thanks for your input

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halfer’s picture

halfer commented

I am pleased with www.mythic-beasts.com as a number of the staff that work there are, I believe, active in the open source community, and they are extremely knowledgable. We have a mid-level shell account with them, but they do VDS and dedicated Macs as well. And no, I am not related to their business in any way ;-)

Admittedly we have had some issues with one of their servers recently, but they have tackled the issue competently and spent a lot of time explaining to me personally what was going on. During a major traffic spike on my Drupal site, they even configured FastCGI for me, and added a static front page via mod_rewrite to handle the load, without extra charge or hesitation. I regard their service as excellent.

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niklp commented

I went as far as getting one site set up with these guys, and you're right, they're good. I had some troubles getting things to work off the bat though, but they came back and helped out eventually with some server upgrades! (mysql)

I didn't go with them in the end as it was going to be too much of a task to get everything shipped across at the time, but I may reconsider if I have any more issues with speed on my current hosting.

sam_uk’s picture

sam_uk commented

If you are looking for a UK based Drupal web host try the following url:

Drupal Hosting

niklp’s picture

niklp commented

I'm in the same situation as munch, and I desperately need a reliable host for several Drupal sites (hopefully with multisite configuration) like, NOW!

I would be interested to see a proper list of UK "Drupal-approved" hosting companies.

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WebKing commented

Hey,
Just found someone asking about www.eukhost.com for Drupal hosting in another thread. You may want to visit this site and find out the hosting features and prices from their plans. It seems to be a reliable hosting company.
All the best!

With Regards,
Sam

halfer’s picture

halfer commented

Personally I'd steer clear of these template-based just-add-water hosting companies. They may be brilliant, but on the other hand they haven't taken care not to look like amateurs (no offence to them intended).

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scedwar commented

I'd ok this comment. We migrated from Bluehost (good, but never really snappy) to http://www.webhosting.uk.com/ and had nothing but problems. They always blamed our site/scripts/resource usage when in fact the whole server was overloaded to the point where we'd be offline for at least half an hour a day! On a VPS! We had a direct stats comparison with bluehost and knew what our site could and couldn't do. With lower traffic (and no email to handle) the VPS still struggled.

24x7 support is no use if they never actually solve the problem!

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kieranmjones commented

Hey,

I host with these guys http://www.xion-internet.co.uk and they seem to be pretty good, reliable and fast. UK based too which is a plus.

Their packages are pretty good value, I have the cheapest one which only costs me £2 per month (although you pay per year) and I get 400mb diskspace and 15GB bandwidth, no sub-domains mind... if you need those I think it's an extra £1 a month and you get 5 subdomains as well as double diskspace so 800mb and 25gb bandwidth. I mean they do some real huge packages too but maybe a bit much for a Drupal install.

I've only just started using Drupal and am still only playing with it (I use Wordpress currently) but haven't noticed any slowness at all, seems to load instantly.

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layershift commented

I invite you to take a look at layershift. We operate our own UK and US based hosting servers and already have many satisfied Drupal users.

Our UK based hosting plans start from £2.95/month - http://uk.layershift.com/shared-hosting.php

We offer full 24x7 support and have been around since 2001. We have recently rebranded, but you will find positive reviews of our company (including in these forums) if you search for Transnexis.

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Damien Ransome
Layershift :: UK & USA-based Managed Dedicated, DDS, VPS, Reseller & Shared Hosting
Experienced SWsoft Platinum Partners (Plesk since 2001, Virtuozzo since 2004)

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spellinn commented

We offer can offer Drupal hosting in the UK on our own dedicated servers. See more details on our hosting plans

Cheers,

Neil
www.purleyhosting.com
Est. 1995
Tel. 0870 765 0870

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andrewl-1 commented

These guys were recommended to me by someone in the UK user group.

I don't have a live Drupal site there yet but have been very pleased with the customer support.

Fire in a few pre-sales questions and see how quickly and accurately they answer - that's always a good test.

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niklp commented

I would say, if no-one can prove that drupal runs well on the servers, someone has to take a baptism of fire on that.

I've tried a few places with various results. It depends on contention issues etc, and considerations for database hungriness etc.

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ukdg_phil commented

Hi,

I would highly recommend www.clook.co.uk for UK web hosting (they also offer US based hosting, although I've never used it myself).

They are not the cheapest around, but I've learnt from past experience that you really do get what you pay for with hosting. I've been using them for over 2 years now, firstly on a reseller plan, & more recently moved over to a VPS.

All I have to say is these guys are amazing! (No I do not work for them or have any affiliation with them, or earn anything from recommending them). Their main good points, apart from excellent up time, is the customer service, which is 2nd to none! They usually respond within minutes, at any time of the day, as they have staff in US as well as their core staff in the UK.

We have over 10 drupal based sites running on our current VPS, all run relatively fast (any slow performers are due to non-optimised coding, which we monitor & tweak as we go, not the server).

If you have any questsions about them let me know, or just pop by their forums www.clook.info/forum/ & ask about.

Regards,
Phil

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martin@drupal.org.uk commented

Used clook for years

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dizara commented

Hi,

I am quite new in Drupal so excuse my possibly obvious question.

What I could not work out is why people look for UK based hosting company as opposed to US ones when hosting Drupal websites.

Does it have to do with some legal matters, esp. if a commercial website is hosted? Or it is just a personal preference?

Many thanks

Alex

HotDrupal.com’s picture

HotDrupal.com commented

Because their customer base is in the UK and they don't want all their traffic passing through transoceanic and/or sat links.

Steve

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www.eukhost.com commented

I do think it is more a matter of personal preference rather than any legal issues. Clients generally prefer hosting location depending on their client base. If majority of your client base is from UK, hosting your website(s) on UK based servers is usually recommended.

VPS Hosting

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jonbey commented

Some people also believe that it is better SEO to have your site hosted in the target country. Open to debate, but many believe this to be the case.

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It's an interesting one. In theory you will reduce any network latency issues by being locally hosted. But being UK based myself, the price of US hosting is very attractive, and probably a third of my traffic is from the US anyway...

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allanp5 commented

Hosting on a UK server for a UK business also offers three definite advantages. Firstly we are charged in sterling so there are no currency fluctuations, secondly there aren't issues around personal information being held outside of Europe and so not covered by data protection laws and thirdly you stand a better chance of helpdesks being staffed when you need access to them.

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tmbejoy commented

hi baronmunchowsen

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