Website Hosting and Domain Name

**DejaVu** · 9th July 2010

Today I have been offered a great deal I cannot refuse and have to start work on this immediately to get some sort of income (or hope of!)

Being 'out-of-work', I need you guys advice on getting a website up and running ASAP.
I know there is a lot of work involved, but I am prepared to do it all for what I can make.

I will be selling products like Light switches in gold/silver etc along with loads of other electrical equipment.

Domain names at 1&1 work out for a .co.uk at �2.99 a year. I can swallow that!

Web host is the next thing. It will be a Prestashop, completely run through PHP and MySQL. I can set it up, no problem as it's simple. I've looked around for about an hour and have found that http://www.000webhost.com/ give a plan for free that seems great for what I want. Are they any good? Free sounds to good to be true.

The reason I'm going for this is I know a few Sparkies (family members) who own their own firms and will come to me to buy these products using the deal I have been offered! The site will have all the products on it and I will also be using eBay.

I wanna try at first to get this up and working with the smallest outlay and if it picks up, expand to a better host.

Any recommendations?

**DejaVu** · 9th July 2010

Any suggestions peeps?

**goonster** · 11th July 2010

I would not touch free hosting with a barge pole,it really isn't worth the head ache that it is.
Free hosting usually results in lots of down time, slow connections, cpu caps and no customer support.

I run my own hosting business,(yes on real hired servers in data centers).
If you can work within the below parameters, then I can do you a full years hosting
for �10 as an introductory offer. Wont make me rich, wont make you poor.
And in a years time if your business has taken off, then you could pay the going rate.

Space: 120 Meg
Monthly Data Transfer: 2,000 MB
Email Accounts: 10
Subdomains: 05
MySQL Databases: 2

Also included are:
- CPanel
- 24/7 FTP Access
- Email Forwarding / Auto-Responders
- Redundant Email Cluster
- Web Statistics
- File Manager
- PHP 4.3.x
- PHP MyAadmin
- CGI-BIN
- PERL 5.6
- CRON
- 99.9% Uptime Pledge

PS, no website technical support is offered,
thats the job of you the web-master.

**Cooleo** · 11th July 2010

I use 000webhost and prestashop and had have no problems yet, great host, great piece of software

**DejaVu** · 11th July 2010

Great offer goonster, but not sure I can manage to stay within those boundaries!

The only one worrying me is the 120Mb space. I'm going to using prestashop and I reckon it'll hog too much room - Approximately 800 products (jpg's are gonna need to be full size) to start off with, going towards 8,500 within a few months. Hence why 000webhost.com's 1.5Gb looked more attractive to get me started.

--EDIT--
Not trying to stare a gift horse down the nose or anything though! Thanks for the great offer!