JeevesBond — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:36:32 +0000

Just thought I'd close this one off with an explanation...Bloomin' hosts forgot to update the DNS! At the sane time there was something wrong with the e-mail server so none of my e-mails asking: "What's going on," got through; when I managed to get hold of the guy on ICQ it took a whole 2 minutes to fix...Sigh.

Thanks for the help with this guys!

andy206uk — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:39:17 +0000

The hosting company I work for usually has hosting accounts up and running within 15 minutes of the order being processed. DNS propogation might take up to 48 hours but its rare. If you registered the domain at the same time as ordering the hosting, theres no way on earth it should be pointing at advertising while they set it up.

Changing DNS records should take 24-48 hours max. (the actual process takes less than a minute if done manually).

I have experience of Easily, i think they're a bit naff (they put adverts on paid for hosting accounts!), but I guess my opinions arent really fair since I work for a (close) competitor.

If this seems like a plug take it down, but my honest opinion is that the company I work for *is* one of the best (well... in the UK anyway).

We do a 100Mb hosting account with Perl, PHP, MySQL, Chillisoft ASP, Frontpage extensions, Shared SSL, Unlimited Email aliases / forwarding accounts, 10 POP3 Accounts, Server side virus & Spam protection, Webmail, Webalizer Stats and 2GB data transfer per month. The price is [reasonable].

I'm not going to put the web address here incase it seems like spam, but if you want the URL PM me.

JeevesBond — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:22:15 +0000

In that case Webmistress who would you use if you wanted 50-100 meg of space; support for PHP, MySQL etc?

Bearing in mind the space has been created and the domain has been registered...It's just changing the DNS to point at the correct place that seems to be a sticking point.

Also, does anyone here use easily.co.uk? If so any opinions?

Thanks in advance for any help!

The Webmistress — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:39:50 +0000

Normally 24 hours maybe 48 at the most.

Renegade — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:05:35 +0000

I have no idea, would probably say no more than a few days? :S