Does anyone seem to know a reliable hosting service?  Sharen

I am very satisfied with the one that I use.
http://www.mis.net/

If you're in the UK, this lot are very good.

If you need one on shore in the US, I use GoDaddy and have for years.

Quote - If you're in the UK, this lot are very good.

I agree. I have been with them for some time now. They are very reliable and helpful and they are not that expensive compared to others in UK.

I'm currently with 1and1, they're ok but I couldn't really recommend them because the tech help is crap!

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Quote - I'm currently with 1and1, they're ok but I couldn't really recommend them because the tech help is crap!

Hmm. I never had problems with their tech help. I found the hosting company very reliable actually.  My site was never down and the few times I had to call for help, they were pretty good. Well, with the exception of helping me with the PayPal coding.  They didn't have a clue.

What I didn't like about them was their billing department.  Last year my PayPal account was hacked, so I went and deleted my banking and credit card information from the account.  Then I decided that since the account had been compromised I didn't want to chance using it again so I created another PayPal account. However, a few months earlier I had gotten rid of my credit cards so I didn't have a credit card to add to my PayPal account and therefore I couldn't set up a billing agreement to pay my web hosting via PayPal.

Their only billing options were:  online bank debit, which we don't have in Canada; PayPal which I couldn't use because I no longer had a credit card; Credit Card which I didn't have; and bank wire transfer which has a fee of $30.00.

I wanted to send a money order (free with my bank account) to 1and1's bank, 1and1 told me that wasn't acceptable and that it had to be bank wire transfer. I told them my situation and how they didn't have a payment option that fitted my situation, so they told me to find hosting elsewhere. I cancelled my account the next day.

6 months later I got a call from a collection department demanding that I pay 6 months service because apparently it was a 1 year hosting agreement. I  wrote them back telling them that I had no intention of paying because 1and1 were the ones who told me to go and find another hosting company because they didn't have a payment method that I could use. Never heard from them again.

I still don't have a credit card, but I have discovered Visa gift cards and they work just as well in PayPal so that the funds are withdrawn from my bank account instantly.

I will use 1and1 again in the future if I ever decide to set up another web site though.  They're very cheap and you get a whole lot of bang for your buck when it comes to band width and web space.
 

Acadia, maybe the tech help in Canada are better than the tech help for the UK, they are very unhelpful here, taking literally weeks to answer a query and then the answer's usually obscure and irrelevant to the question anyway!
I've more than omce sorted it out myself with trial and error before getting anything back from them.

 We have had lypha.com for several years now and they are very reliable and with increadible service. Low prices and almost no limits on bandwidth (we have 30Gb/month). Big disc space too. Support answers within the hour and usually quicker.

has anyone heard of webhostingpad.com, I am in contact with them now, but wondered if anyone else has heard of them and their background....need to do more research.  Thanks for the up to date info.  Sharen

I have used 1and1 for years without problems.  I used several others prior to 1and1 and would never want to go back.  I have never had to use tech assistance - their tools for self service are excellent.  I manage multiple domains and mailboxes from the admin panel.  It's fairly intuitive.  In my experience their pricing is very competitive (if not the cheapest available).

Klebnor

Go read the host reviews at www.webhostingtalk.com/

I got my host from looking and reading there.

Take a look at  www.cirtex.com.  I really like them.

Great thank you.  Sharen

Just remember that cheapest isn't always best. And your requirements come into play (e.g. are you planning on hosting a store etc - for which you'll need a dedicated I.P. and SSL). I'm a web developer and have used a spectrum of web hosts over the years. I'm particularly partial to Sphere Web Hosting, which is on clustered servers (so is Netfirms), meaning spikes are absorbed over multiple systems, and the service is incredibly good.

I've also had good service from Dathorn.

I will definately look into both of those, thank you.  Sharen