Hosting: May 2007 Archives

Following on from a recent discussion on the Enterprise Ireland e-Business mailing list about hosting and domains I offered to draw up a comparison list. The list, which is available here, is of the top 10 or so companies as listed by WebHosting.info. The pricing listed is for the following items:

• IE domain registration
- there maybe a lower cost for a transfer, but this is ignored
• .com registration
• .co.uk registration
• .eu registration
• entry level hosting plan
- basically the cheapest on they offer

The list is split into those with servers in Ireland and those without. I may do another more detailed breakdown of these, but the work I did this weekend is just a starting point. EDIT: Actually including the link might help! EDIT 2: At Keith's suggestion the columns are now sortable and a bit of CSS magic makes this all the more obvious. Thanks to Keith for the code (and links)

From time to time I like to give away stuff. Some people probably think this is a little mental :) I don't really mind .... Anyhow .... Today's little offer.. To celebrate our introduction of a nice new web frontend to MS SQL 2005 (see here ) we're giving away a couple of ASP.net hosting plans with MS SQL 2005 support. First 3 people who contact me via email (michele@blacknight.ie NOT my personal address please) will get one of these: Asp.net Standard Hosting Plan I'll even throw in a free domain (com/net/org/info/biz/mobi/eu/at/co.uk) EDIT: All gone now. For those of you who missed the freebie use the coupon code "blog07" to get a 20% discount on the same hosting package. The coupon will be valid for the next 24 hours