web-mania.com

Advantages: Cheap, wide range of hosting options, PHP and MYSQL as standard
Disadvantages: Support, Security,

I have used webmania for about 3 years. Recently their support and service has been beyond shocking. At one point their servers were hacked/ had hardware crash and all the data was lost. No backup no apologies. I take it on the chin and assume the old proverb "you get what you pay for." OK so we get over that little glitch... well next I have a problem with hosting and domain. So i call tech support, which i believe is farmed out to India. He is ...
...domain in question. He comes up with many reasons for the problem... without even looking at the domain. Finally he takes a look at the website and we start getting somewhere. Move on a few weeks, i need to talk to support on a totally separate issue. I try emailing, nothing, try calling wait 45mins nothing. Try calling at different times of the day, no connection. Try online support, great get through, but i need to speak to telephone support. I'm ... Read review

Advantages: Redbus house, Uk location 1yr set price
Disadvantages: Not many choices, no cpanel

I have had my site hosted on their servers for about 2 1/2 years and i haven't had any down time or errors. I Use their own control panel wich hasn't got as many features as cpanel. They do allow telnet which many hosts don't allow. The only have 1 option which is set at 500mb space 6Gb data transfer so if you need more then this is not the host for you. That is the main reason i change host was that they didn't have any other plans to upgrade too. ...
...a good reliable data centre, They offer php and mysql but only 1 database and only 1 ftp account the rest like email and subdomains are unlimited. They use live person as their online support system and never had a problem with that you get a instant solution to most of your questions. This is a good affordable host for most personal sites anything bigger will need to look somewhere else for bigger storage and bandwidth ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, php, mysql supported, multiple domains, unlimited sub-domains
Disadvantages: unreliable, days of downtime, email server unreliable, 3 weeks of lost data

I have used web mania for around 2 or 3 years and have had upto 4 accounts with them. In the past 2 years I have experienced several instances of days of downtime, a completely unreliable web to email service and today I was absolutely gutted to find out that the website i had been developing for the last 2 weeks has been lost because of a disk error at web-mania. I have lost around 40 hours of work.. whats more I havent just lost the website but ...
...web-mania have restored me back to about a month ago. When i spoke to web mania they stated that they dont do tape backups. so when I get my website backup again I will promote web-mania's shocking reliability! If your thinking of web-mania look at ww.qiq.co.uk first (same price but much more reliable service) ... Read review