[thelist] Hosting recommendations UK (Emergency)

[Administrative HQ]

If you haven't decided yet, take a look a Tokios.com.
Their service is excellent...usually in minutes. I
don't think they're located in the UK, if that's
crucial.

Good luck.
--- Norman Beresford <n.beresford at anansi.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Chris
> 
> There's a thread on the UK based Freelancers list
> regarding 1&1 at the
> moment.  A few people are reporting issues with
> their windows hosting.
> 
> "I've had a lot of those problems with 1+1 MS
> hosting, the redirection
> not working was the most annoying. Personally I
> wouldn't use them
> because the support is so slow and unreliable"
> 
> 
> "I have recently (3-4 weeks) signed up for a 1+1 ASP
> package and have had
> the
> following problems...
> 
> 1) Initially, I could not log into the Admin script
> to change file
> permissions. (Eventually sorted after support call
> which they denied
> everything)
> 
> 2) Yesterday, the only domain on the package (at the
> moment) which was
> pointed to a subdirectory on the webspace ended up
> pointing itself back to
> the root of the webspace (which contained nothing).
> The config panel showed
> the correct redirection, but changing it had no
> effect. I sent a support
> request to them which I have rceceived no reply as
> yet, but the problem has
> fixed itself.
> 
> 3) Now today, an access Db which had write
> priveleges has just decided to
> become read only. Unfortualy at the moment I can't
> access the admin script
> to fix this so don't know whether it's a quick fix
> or a more sever problem!"
> 
> We've got a dedicated box with Zenithtech
> (www.zenithtech.co.uk), and we
> used to use them for a shared server.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Norman
> 
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