I am thinking of taking up a reseller account with them;

they offer 50 gb bandwidth and unlimited space. £35 / around $40

I know the owner uses theses forums but i wanted to know from users , what are they like would you reccomend them ?

Nobody can offer unlimited space. If you start using too much space, your host will kick you out.

If a host offers unlimited space (or bandwidth) they will be stoned to death in this forum.... i think that pretty much summarises it.

Hi, im not sure how old this post is but if you are talking about ukhost4u.com they are great, ive been using them for 6 months or so and never had any problems

hi mate
did u go with host4u? i like site and their prices,support isnt great though esp at weekends(non existent) :(
was very tempted t go with them but support is holding me back

fergal

Yeah i guess their support can be kind of slow at weekends but during the week its great and there is also very little downtime, as i said ive been using them for 6 months, they arent too strict on their rules either like some companies, obviously illegal material is not allowed but they dont kick you off for no reason like some companies

I personally have a big problem with UNLIMITED.

Also I have a solution when I found this: STAY AWAY !

Try to read the fine lines because usually something is wrong.

Anyway if their services are confirmed by the wht keep us informed.

Good luck ;)

isnt ukhost4u a donhost reseller? compare and there are very similar specs?i do like his plans and
he did email me today after some hours to answer some sales questions so he prob just has a limited service at weekends,seems good to deal with just like more posts about em

i think they use Rackshack dedicated servers

if the site is : ukhost4u.com

anyone know how much ukhosts4u charge if you go over 50gig b/w? have emailed them but no reply

Yeah they trace down to Texas here in the USA, so most likely RS. So they can't be offering unlimited anything.

We all know RS can't do unlimited space, bandwith is another thing though

UKHost4u started off as donhost resellers but had problems the same as many others so now they have their own servers from rackshack.
Im not sure how much they charge if u exceed bandwidth but i can find ou for you if u like

im with ukhosts4u there ok but their downtime is annoying pretty much a downtime over a saterday every month

Originally posted by Trevsweb
im with ukhosts4u there ok but their downtime is annoying pretty much a downtime over a saterday every month

Ive heard of them, I was once with them & I know a few people who are still with them and are regretting ever giving them a penny!

Just a few things I was told and remember...

Uptime is awful, they always seem to have problems, and never updated there customers with what was going on!

There were/are so many disputes on their forum about there unlimited packages, (which of course was not unlimited), people would pay for the hosting and then they would only be given a certain amount of disk space and bandwidth, and they would say they will give more when you ask for it....strange way of doing business...main point being its not unlimited and your not getting what you initially paid for!
They have now password protected their forum so, you cant see the many complaints made (I wonder why its password protected ;) )
They have changed there packages now, but the people who paid for unlimited still dont have unlimited.

Support was bad, I remember there number one excuse for not getting back to peoples support emails was, they never received the email (how original!).

im currently looking for a hosting company to host with and am glad I have come across this site, I would not recommend ukhost4u!

Good luck.

:cool:

Well, the only thing to say is, you get what you pay for. Theres no such thing as unlimited.

A server usually has around 40 GB space available for clients (80Gb Hard Drive), for that price, I doubt that you will get good uptime.

When it comes to time, Im not saying all hosts will do that, but some will cut you off as you use too much of their resources. I may be wrong about ukhost4u, however in general, thats what most hosts who offer unlimited tend to do.

Please dont take this personally, anyone, its just my two cents :)

Offtopic, but this thread is almost 2 years old. :/

Cool.

Ive also had experience with this company, and everything about them is bad, support, uptime etc... The staff are unhelpful and rude... I wouldn't recommend them.

Originally posted by HScene Mike
Offtopic, but this thread is almost 2 years old. :/

Was just thinking that ;)

I recently signed up to ukhost4u.com, feeling slightly nervous having read this forum. So far it's been fine.

I'm only on the basic hosting, not the reseller account, but so far I've not noticed the down time. I've not had any problems yet, but when I was in touch with their customer services sorting out the domain name transfer they responded to my tickets pretty quickly, usually a few hours.

I've looked over their customer support forum and there aren't too many gripes, there was a problem with SQL a few weeks ago that got fixed within half an hour, and that seems to be about all.

I'll try to post again in a few months with an update.

TT.

Hi Guy's this is cool forum.
I have been with hostingyard for somtime and thinking of purchasing a reseller package.
They offer 1,000 MB Harddrive and 50, 000 MB of Bandwidth less than $40.
Does anyone know any cheaper hosting company? or is hostingyard reseller package is bargain? ;)

Originally posted by HScene Mike
Offtopic, but this thread is almost 2 years old. :/

Originally posted by Paul-ukhost
Was just thinking that ;)

Does this matter?

At least it keeps it all together when you want info on a particular host, no?

I too came accross ukhost4u, and asked the MD to 'clarify' some of their claims.

After 2 weeks, and 2 e-mails, still waiting ... :rolleyes:

Originally posted by hostingvince
Does this matter?

At least it keeps it all together when you want info on a particular host, no?


Hi,

There is a handy search tool for that, it's best to start a new thread.

In my mind unlimited space will run out one day as theres no such thing as an unlimited hard drive

Originally posted by tom_o_t
I recently signed up to ukhost4u.com, feeling slightly nervous having read this forum. So far it's been fine.

I'm only on the basic hosting, not the reseller account, but so far I've not noticed the down time. I've not had any problems yet, but when I was in touch with their customer services sorting out the domain name transfer they responded to my tickets pretty quickly, usually a few hours.

I've looked over their customer support forum and there aren't too many gripes, there was a problem with SQL a few weeks ago that got fixed within half an hour, and that seems to be about all.

I'll try to post again in a few months with an update.

TT.

I think one of the major problems on the forum was this:
http://www.ukhost4u.com/online/members/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=248

Originally posted by uksam
I think one of the major problems on the forum was this:


Cannot access the content on this link. Can you provide a summary of it's content?

Thanks

The debate is about the amount of space you get, whether it's 500 or 1000 MB of space that you get, and whether this is misleading as it was advertised as unlimited.

There's a debate over whether using your website for a file transfer service is abusing ukhost's service.

The topic is ended by one of the administrators saying

"Can I just explain this in simple terms. We provider Unlimited Web Site storage. This for for HTML files / Images files and web based content like Java or Flash. This is not for you to upload your zip files or personal work. If you use the storage for this reason you will be limited to the max space and we reserve the right to remove these files at any time. There are many Online Storage companys on the net, and these companys have large slow storage to work with this time of requirment. We run SCSI Raid 5 15K RMP drives and as these drives are very expensive BUT very fast we can't allow large amounts of un-active storage! We pride our self's in a good service and customers like the customer above will only slow the performance for everyone else."

Just a word of warning if you are considering ukhost4u - I'd leave it for a few weeks because there uptime is terrible at the moment. They claim they are suffering from DOS attacks and are going to move to a new provider sometime soon.

Get in touch if you want more info.

Tom

yes i second that warning if you get on cpanel 1 then your gonna be in a downward sprial of downtime, the support staff are alrite but are hardly about when u need them, and frankly ive seen better uptime on outher servers

"Can I just explain this in simple terms. We provider Unlimited Web Site storage. This for for HTML files / Images files and web based content like Java or Flash. This is not for you to upload your zip files or personal work. If you use the storage for this reason you will be limited to the max space and we reserve the right to remove these files at any time.

So basically, you cant offer pdfs, docs, or zips on your webpage either considering it's not html/image/java/flash files. So 'I'm guessing the only site you can have with them is an extremely simple site. Who wants to go with this "host" again? :eek:

Once I payed for an account with ukhost4u I received no email and no site for 3 days, so I emailed them "why haven't u setup my account?" and they replied: "sorry, who are you?"

LOL i also find the server unreliable and always getting MySQL errors when I have not touched the databases!

oh yeh and I am also confused why a ying-yang (chinese symbol) is their logo of an english company :P

Originally posted by FiR3
oh yeh and I am also confused why a ying-yang (chinese symbol) is their logo of an english company :P

It's Taoist, and I doubt they even know what it means.

UKhost4u have moved to a new network and their uptime seems fine now, I've not noticed any downtime for the last week.

I wouldn't worry about not being able to host a few pdf's etc. if you need to. I think they just use that as a get-out clause if someone's using stupid amounts of bandwidth by hosting inappropriate content. I doubt they'd mind if you had a few pdf press releases or something.

Tom

ukhost4u


STAY AWAY....
They only reply to emails when :

You compliment them or don't have a technical problem

They cannot be contacted through help system if you lose your control panel

They never send out warnings of downtime or even apologise.

They didn't even know how to deal with a nominet claim against my domain name! They cocked it up!

Only got it sorted by luck.

Uptime is lousy...

STAY AWAY FROM ukhost4u

Cheap but not cheerful

I was looking for an inexpensive host for my website at outbidder.co.uk but since it is an auction website and I will have a large number of members, I will need to send out a newsletter occasionally. Also there will be bid/outbid/winning emails as you would expect.

Reading the small print it looks like they don't support any kind of bulk emailing, so I wonder what they would consider to be bulk:
"you will not send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise from our network"

The rest of the small print seems pretty standard although it's interesting they have the option to up the Service Level agreement at a price:
24 hours online £4.99
12 hours online £12.99
6 hours online £24.99
2 hours online £49.99

If they don't get your site back up within that time you get a refund so even paying the money is no guarantee. :bawling:

Would be interested to hear in anyone else's opinion of those clients who have been with ukhost4u recently or are with them at the moment.

I think they can't be beaten on value but if the support isn't there...

Also I see no guarantees of uptime percentages, whereas most other hosts do give you an indication. Does anyone who is currently with them have rough figures for the time the servers are normally down?

Originally posted by Guyonahi
I was looking for an inexpensive host for my website at outbidder.co.uk but since it is an auction website and I will have a large number of members, I will need to send out a newsletter occasionally. Also there will be bid/outbid/winning emails as you would expect.

Reading the small print it looks like they don't support any kind of bulk emailing, so I wonder what they would consider to be bulk:
"you will not send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise from our network"

The rest of the small print seems pretty standard although it's interesting they have the option to up the Service Level agreement at a price:
24 hours online £4.99
12 hours online £12.99
6 hours online £24.99
2 hours online £49.99

If they don't get your site back up within that time you get a refund so even paying the money is no guarantee. :bawling:

Would be interested to hear in anyone else's opinion of those clients who have been with ukhost4u recently or are with them at the moment.

I think they can't be beaten on value but if the support isn't there...

Also I see no guarantees of uptime percentages, whereas most other hosts do give you an indication. Does anyone who is currently with them have rough figures for the time the servers are normally down?


Well, what else do you need to know, put this thread and the following together (below) and you will get an idea of the (bad) service offered!

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=269649

:cartman:

Originally from the ukhost4u.com website
...are provided on our multi-million pound network within Red Bus Data Centre...

Does anyone have an IP of a ukhost4u customer server? There main website IP appears to point to a server at The Planet.

There nameservers for the sites they host are:
NS1.CPANEL-SERVER.COM 67.18.74.74
NS2.CPANEL-SERVER.COM 67.18.74.75

:roll2:

...which are also based at The Planet in the USA. I'm guessing ukhost4u no longer have their "multi-million pound network" in Redbus?

OK, so assuming I read all the recent bad posts and take it that ukhost4u are cheap for a very good reason(!) then can anyone recommend a UK web host that offers the following (for less than a Kings Ransom):

- CGI/Perl
- 500MB d/space
- 25GB b/width
- cPanel
- ImageMagick
- Server Side Includes

Think that's about it? :D

Originally posted by Guyonahi
... If they don't get your site back up within that time you get a refund so even paying the money is no guarantee...

Not so true, i did not opt to pay the additional money but a mate did and when they where recieving DoS attacks (which was genuine not just an excuse) they said that due to the down time being out of their control they wern't liable to repay the money.

basically, they have a legal loophole for everything in their very porffesional and well written Terms or Service

Having said that.

I am with ukhost4u

they are not a bad company

If you are nice, they are nice back.

As for support they now have the following

AIM: ukinternetoffice

MSN: sales@ukinternet.me.uk

IRC: 206397299

YAHOO: ukinternetoffice

i have only used the msn but the guy on there was increibly helpful to me on many an occasion and he is not my first point of call for support. he even sat and delted a load of large files for me cos i asked him and told him i didnt want to sit and spend hours doing it on the ftp.

The hosting is good, cheap, unreliable at times but be realistic, how many of you need your site up 24/6. we all know its annoying but if you absolutely need your site 24/7 then your probably a very large business who can afford a little more then £30 a year and will probably by their own dedicated server.

That is all.

"but be realistic, how many of you need your site up 24/6. we all know its annoying but if you absolutely need your site 24/7 then your probably a very large business who can afford a little more then £30 a year and will probably by their own dedicated server"

I have to disagree, I think it's about perception and the kind of site you have.

I am not a large business but I do want my site to look professional. If people try to visit my site and it is unavailable how many will come back? And when they do come back, if it is down again or still down, how many will return a third time?

Also with it being an auction site, it needs to be available when people come back to rebid or check their items/bids before the items close. Maybe if I was just a shop it wouldn't be such a problem.

Since my last post I have signed up with ukwsd.com and so far I'm quite impressed.