Advantages: easy to use, very fast to set up Disadvantages: cant add metia tags to forwarded domains
...is the great thing about easily.co.uk they make life easier for the customer and always put the customer first. I also like the fact that you only enter your credit details when you need to pay for something and they don’t store them, this gives you peace of mind knowing no one can get at your details. I would rather have to enter my credit details every time than have them stored on a remote computer where I don’t know who has access to them. I ... ...it comes down to it easily.co.uk is the best I have seen yet and also the easiest to use.
Comments & suggestions welcome, thank you for reading for more information on easily.co.uk’s services goto http://easily.co.uk/index.php3?exe=pricesinfo&sb=n where there is a full price list and hosting comparison table.
~ Introduction ~ Yay I thought I had just bought a domain for my website a nice. co.uk for only £9.99 I handed my mum her visa card back and gave her the printed invoice which she then filed away. It had only taken 10 minutes and I had set up the domain name. It was that easy, or was it that easy? Well they do remind you on nearly every page that the domain name hasn’t been fully registered until you receive an email informing you of so. I got the first email telling me that the credit transaction had been completed and that I had just paid £9.99 for 2 years registration. Two minutes latter I received another email telling me that my domain name had been successfully registered. Now I was sure that it had worked, I now had my. co.uk domain name in MY name which I could use there forwarding service to forward it to my website hosted on btinternets free servers, all I needed now was to save up money to purchase there hosting. I sat back and relaxed, I had a strange feeling in my stomach but I ignored it, now all I had to do was to tell all my friends of my new domain name.
~~ Range of Services ~~ Easily host a range of high quality services, each can be paid for fully with no extra fees for a min of one year (except .oc.uk domain reg as you can only register that for 2 years) and there fees are shall we say VERY reasonable. They host the following services (of which I shall go into detail later) + Domain Registration + Email accounts + Dedicated server hosting + Web hosting
Score - [18/20]
~~ Pricing and costs ~~ Easily is a relatively cheap site, although you may be able to find cheaper services else where I would say stick with easily as you know with them you will get excellent quality. With professional web hosting including all the scripts (cgi, asp, etc) is £16.99 + vat per year! and I don’t know about you but that’s the best price I have seen ever. Although the £16.99 don’t include bandwidth and only comes with the space and extras. You pay for the bandwidth like you top up your mobile phone. You can buy bandwidth at £0.0025 per MB and you can buy bandwidth in 5,120 MB lots, 20,480 MB lots and 61,440 MB lots. So as you can see it’s cheap.
The only downside there may be is that I have seen .co.uk domain names for £7.99 else where but that’s only because the other website didn’t add vat to that so its still again £9.99 A full price list of what they sell is:
Virtual Server Hosting - £16.99 per year Easy me website hosting - £9.99 per year Email accounts - £8.50 per year Domain Names – starting from £9.99 And there are NO hidden fees
Score – [56/60]
~~ Ease of use ~~ Easily is very easy to use as I pointed out in my introduction it took me less that 30mins to set up my domain name. The graphic based nav system is easy to understand and simple to use. You sign up by entering all the details required and then you are free to shop for their services. While logged in you have full control over all your purchases, domain names hosting, etc. You can view and print your invoices and see system status. In fact you can do about anything linked with your account and purchases easily and quickly. That’s not to say that some of the sites set-up isn’t confusing as when I first looked at it I didn’t know what to do and had to click around for a while before realising what was going on but that because I didn’t read the instructions on the top of the account management page which tells you what icon to click to go where >_<
Score – [17/20]
~~ Extra Features ~~ Easily like most other of its competitors host a range of extra features, you can purchase a domain name with them and set it so it will forward to say http://www.somefreehostingservice.com/~your.website/ this is good as you can purchase the domain with them with out having to purchase hosting with them, plus the forwarding comes at no extra charge, and when your ready you can purchase hosting with them and link your domain to that hosting package via DNS free of charge. Also with each domain name you get 20 free forwarding email addresses like yourname@yourdomain.com which is good im using 5 of mine 3 for me and my friends who are helping make the website and 2 which I use on services im not sure of i.e. they ask for my email address and then Spam it 300 times a week.
Score – [47/50]
~~ Support ~~ I cant say much for the support as the website has been so easy to use that I haven’t yet had to contact them apart to congratulate them on making such a great service, and they replied to that email with in two days which is good. You can contact them via, email, phone & fax as well as postal mail.
Score – [10/10]
~~ Reliability ~~ Ah ha, now this is the biggy, if you want to have your website hosted you want it to be available 24/7 although this cant always be maintained i.e. fire in server room, server crashes, server stolen & other natural disasters i.e. hurricane, etc. Well don’t be worried as easily has all the things you need to maintain at least a 99.9% uptime. They have back up generators, fire safe housing and 24hour monitoring so you can be assured that if anything does go wrong then they will be able to sort it out quickly.
Score – [40/40]
~~ Security ~~ Yes they have this covered, with the sending of credit details are encrypted and never stored and the transaction is instant. Also with the website hosting you get a fire wall and high security centre so as to keep your data safe.
Score – [25/25]
~~ Website hosting ~~ Easily provide three levels of website hosting, the cheapest and in my opinion the worst one is the simple hosting plan you pay only £9.99 per year and get 120mb bandwidth per year and 5mb storage space and yes that’s it! No ftp no scripts, nout just the basics which are fine for beginners. Then they have the virtual server hosting which has the top up bandwidth scheme where you don’t get a set bandwidth per month you top up a stock pile of bandwidth which can be used as much or as little when ever you need it which is a great idea, it means you don’t have to pay for bandwidth your never going to use and you only have to top up when your running low! A very good idea ^_^ this hosting plan includes 100MB storage space with FTP, PHP 4, MySQL, FrontPage 2000 extensions, sun chill soft ASP, your own CGI bin, Mod Perl, graphical website stats, html, java, graphics, etc lets just say you get your moneys worth!! This is the hosting package im going for when I get the money together to buy it.
They do have dedicated servers but these are much like the virtual hosting but for businesses as they are like 20GB storage and well over the £300 per year line.
Score – [95/100]
~~ POP3 Email ~~ Personally I wouldn’t use this part of there service and would just stick to the free email forwarding which comes with the domain ^_~ but if you want to have your own 5MB POP3 account then for just £9.99 per year you can have one. They are pretty good and can be upgraded in size if needed.
Score – [32/40]
~~ Overall Score~~
Range of Services – 18/20 Pricing and costs – 56/60 Ease of use – 17/20 Extra Features – 47/50 Support – 10/10 Reliability – 40/40 Security – 25/25 Website hosting – 95/100 POP3 Email – 32/40
Total Score – 340/365
~~ Final Evaluation ~~ Over all easily is a very good service, when you look up close you can see that in fact there are no extra fees and all the prices are all inclusive which again is the great thing about easily.co.uk they make life easier for the customer and always put the customer first. I also like the fact that you only enter your credit details when you need to pay for something and they don’t store them, this gives you peace of mind knowing no one can get at your details. I would rather have to enter my credit details every time than have them stored on a remote computer where I don’t know who has access to them. I will recommend them to anyone looking for a cheap domain name or cheap virtual hosting, as when it comes down to it easily.co.uk is the best I have seen yet and also the easiest to use.
Comments & suggestions welcome, thank you for reading for more information on easily.co.uk’s services goto http://easily.co.uk/index.php3?exe=pricesinfo&sb=n where there is a full price list and hosting comparison table.
Advantages: Quick, cheap and very easily forwarding Disadvantages: Very infrequent downtimes
...domain away from easily. However, easily.co.uk will not charge you should you want to make the change. Easily.co.uk really does live up to the name. It allows you to easily pick up a domain name in just a few minutes. The site is quick, extremely easy to navigate and everything is laid out clearly. The price you see is the price you pay, unlike some registration companies, and while it’s no-frills, with forwarding you don’t need any frames. ... ...My experience with easily.co.uk was very pleasant indeed, I was very impressed and would certainly use it again. However, bear in mind it can take anything between 24 and 96 hours for your domain name to become working as it takes this time to transfer the necessary information across the Internet. The site was recently down for a weekend, and a quick email to customer support revealed they where carrying out server upgrades. They stated this shouldn't ...
hugon 02.05.2001
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Advantages: great pricing, efficiency great for the domain shopper Disadvantages: None.....
Easily.co.uk has to be one of the cheapest if not cheapest domain registering company. I haven't tried their web hosting yet, as you may know from reading my article about portland.co.uk, I am trying to get free web hosting. I very recently bought a domain from easliy.co.uk. I had been referred to the site by Ciao and I have to agree that it is a very economically friendly site.
Even after I found easily I hunted the Internet for hours, searching ... ...when I checked back at easily.co.uk I realized that I could get a domain for only 10 pounds and a bit for TWO YEARS! What a bargain I think I'm gonna buy some! So I bought a domain for 2 years.
I am very happy with my buy and to top it all off, easily.co.uk was VERY quick about sending me the confirmation information. I filled out the order form and at most FIVE minutes later I had already received a confirmation e-mail telling me about some details ...
ozcr 02.08.2001
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Advantages: Simple, quick and cheap Disadvantages: So many domain names to choose from!
I recently wanted to register a domain name for my fledgling 'Make Money' pages. I had trawled about tne 'net for ages looking for a reasonable deal. There are so many services out there its difficult to choose. Then I remembered a review I'd seen in a computer magazine. I opened up my browser and pointed it to www.easily.co.uk and there it was. A simple way to obtain my own domain name (www.u4cash.com) and even better, you get a free .co.uk with ... ...+ vat) for 2 years. You also get masked or unmasked re-directing and 20 e-mail re-directors in the price, brilliant. All you need to do is have your domain name ready, which you can check on the site, and your credit/debit card. They will accept postal orders too. A great and simple service which I will definitely use again. PS. Just in case you think I work for Easily, I don't :-) ...
Advantages: Affordable, fast registration of domain names Disadvantages: Cannot set-up Meta Tags (keywords, description etc.)
...number of domain names with Easily.co.uk They offer fast and easy domain registration, letting you pay isntantly online with your credit card, or offering you the option to print the page out and send it to them with a cheque/PO.
It was releaved when they added the 'URL Masking' feature earlier this year. Basically 'URL Masking' means that the .co.uk or .com address will alway remain in the title bar, and NOT the page it redirects to (Tripod etc..).
... ...that other doamin companies offer. Easily.co.uk do not let you enter Keywords or A descroption of your website, in what ias called the 'META Tags'. This can make submitting your .co.uk or .com address to search engines difficult.
All in all, I would recommend this service if you're after cheap (.co.uk £10, .co.uk £35) fast doamin names. And you don't mind submitting your site's actual web address (be it Tripod or whatever other depths you lower ...
jaffacakemonster 23.09.2000
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I recently transferred my website to an EasilyMe account with Easily. I was attracted to them by their £9.99 offers on domain names and hosting. There was a delay after I had bought my accounts due to some sort of problem with the servers, so Easily have given out extra hosting time for free to compensate. Since everything came on line I have monitored it through internetseer, and have not had any outages yet. Uploading is quite easy, and is all ... ...though. It is ideal for beginners. As long as their pices do not rise too much I will continue to use Easily for the forseeable future, and have already recommended them to friends. There are newsletters about their services by email, but not too many so you don't feel hassled by them. Also explanations of problems and changes are very clear. Their email responses to problems and enquiries are very efficient, and there is also a telephone helpline. ...
saffdarling 15.07.2001
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