I have a client who is currently hosted in USA with istores.com
He needs to move to a UK host so that he shows up in UK Google searches but he is a bit of a technophobe and wants to carry on using their on-line web builder thingy. He has no idea how to use dreamweaver or FrontPage.
Anybody know of a UK based company that we can move to?
James posted this at 18:07 — 18th December 2006.
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You need to find a UK host WITH UK located servers. Just a note for you that many UK providers do not have UK location servers. Also be expected to pay a little more for UK servers.
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James posted this at 08:52 — 19th December 2006.
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Just 1 note about 1 and 1 UK though, the servers are in Germany and not in the UK.
ohrana posted this at 08:56 — 19th December 2006.
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Are you sure in it? As for UK hosting you may look at xilo.net and unitedhosting.co.uk. I have heard they are good.
James posted this at 09:55 — 19th December 2006.
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Yes, 1and1 uses servers in Germany.
Freedom posted this at 10:21 — 21st December 2006.
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I thought that they are UK located company....
Hampstead posted this at 10:38 — 19th December 2006.
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I can find a UK host easy enough. It's the web builder I'm after.
Must be hosted on a UK IP block.
I think I'll have to show him how to use FP.
andy206uk posted this at 11:37 — 19th December 2006.
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Or you could build him a website with a CMS backend... Then he has full control of the content but can't screw up the design
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Hampstead posted this at 10:24 — 21st December 2006.
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No - If you host with 1and1 you will not be found for UK searches on Google unless you have a .uk TLD.
The company is based in the UK. The servers are in Germany.
Hampstead posted this at 10:26 — 21st December 2006.
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http://ip2country.esymbian.info/?host=www.1and1.co.uk&commit=Go
James posted this at 18:30 — 21st December 2006.
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Hampstead, you could try asking your client to register a .co.uk and parking his current domain on top.
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Hampstead posted this at 18:46 — 21st December 2006.
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I could, but that brings a different set of problems. The current host do not allow 301s or fully support .htaccess files so I wouldn't be able to set up a Google friendly way of redirecting and / or rewriting the URLs.
There would possibly be problems with the sandbox and ageing of the URL.