Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Web Hosting : UK webhosts

My experience is very limited with hosting. At the moment I'm using Total Choice who I am very happy with, but for seo purposes I'm looking for a UK webhost with servers based in the UK.
My requirements are basic:
Shared Hosting
Apache
Cpanel
MySQL
I have small site with a wordpress blog. I would prefer small reliable customer focused UK host.
Thanks

[net]

Moved > Web Hosting Forum .

[-Edward-]

What amount of space does your blog currently use ?

[TheHostHouse]

You could try looking at the offers section:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4 =)

[MikeDVB]

If your needs are very minimalistic as I am guessing they are (since you don't state any resource usage or any issues) you shouldn't have trouble finding a UK host. Please keep in mind that hosting in the UK is likely going to be more expensive than hosting in the United States.

[-Edward-]

If your needs are very minimalistic as I am guessing they are (since you don't state any resource usage or any issues) you shouldn't have trouble finding a UK host. Please keep in mind that hosting in the UK is likely going to be more expensive than hosting in the United States.
With the weak pound, that's not entirely true - The gap between a $ and £ is minimal these day's.

[MikeDVB]

With the weak pound, that's not entirely true - The gap between a $ and £ is minimal these day's.
I'm not talking about currency exchange but simply the fact that is generally more expensive to obtain a server in the UK than it is in the US which results in higher operating costs and higher base prices in most cases. I was speaking from the provider's side more than the customers side which has a trickle-down effect.
If I only pay $100/mo for a server and in the UK you pay $200/mo for the same server (not talking about currency exchange) then you're going to either have to charge your customers more or put more customers on the box to make a similar profit.
Now of course if the provider colocates in the UK as apposed to a provider leasing in the US then the UK hosting may be a little cheaper, I was just saying mostly not to be surprised if UK hosting is a bit more expensive.

[fishforcarp]

Some UK hosts worth looking at are:
EZPZHosting.co.uk (http://ezpzhosting.co.uk)
TSOHost.com (http://tsohost.com)
Clook.co.uk (http://clook.co.uk)
Unitedhosting.co.uk (http://unitedhosting.co.uk)
The first three listed use cpanel, Unitedhosting use Parallels Pro.

[DATARTIM]

UK / US pricing is comparable, there is no real price difference.
So as the OP states he would be better of getting Uk hosting.

[donbiz]

I heard rapidswitch was a pretty good UK web host.

[dolphinecho]

You could look at NetHosted (http://www.nethosted.co.uk/) they have UK shared servers.
I have a reseller on one server and a shared on another server with them

[eming]

try to ask on webhostchat.co.uk - thats wht for the Brits

D

My initial searches found that UK hosting was more expensive, however TSOHost.com had a lite package which is the cheapest I've seen....seem like nice folk also. Thanks for the recommendations.

[lady2009]

My initial searches found that UK hosting was more expensive, however TSOHost.com had a lite package which is the cheapest I've seen....seem like nice folk also. Thanks for the recommendations.
So you have made your choice? If not, then I would recommend you to take a look at webhost.uk.net (http://www.webhost.uk.net)
Their packages are quite cheap and offer hosting in datacenter located in London.
I will be signing up for their linux vps package in the coming week as the datacenter being in London would be helpful for my websites accessibility and SEO purpose.