daymoon
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Registered: 1st Aug 08
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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I need to get myself a domain name for uni project.
After quick google there seems to be loads.
What I am after is something that will allow me to use MySQL so that I can have a database.
Must be as cheap as possible too.
suggestions?
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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check go daddy or 1and1
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Butler
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Registered: 2nd Jun 05
Location: London
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I find 1and1 cheap but justhost the most user-friendly
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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They are cheap but not necessarily reliable.
Dom uses a couple of hosts I think which he says are cheap and good - Vidahost or TSOhost something like that?
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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U2U Whittie
I use his server and its been fine.
Dont use 1and1. Wank is an understatement
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corsayoung
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Registered: 10th Feb 09
Location: Cheltenham
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why not try 000webhost.com completly free and can use your own domain name?
domain names can be purchahsed from loadsa places and very simple to use.
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
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Sticky in Geek Day, 10% off Vida.
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
They are cheap but not necessarily reliable.
Dom uses a couple of hosts I think which he says are cheap and good - Vidahost or TSOhost something like that?
Yup, Vida and TSO (might be worth hunting around as they usually have a 50% code around) are certainly one of the better hosts in the UK and support seems to be spot on (ie: usually i get an email reply within a few minutes, calls get answered straight away); Vooservers are another i use (cheap reseller accounts for live dev'ing), not too bad but nothing special either.
As for domains, 123-reg or namecheap for US TLDs.
And yeah i'd stay well away from 1&1, their support is like their control panels - piss poor. Can't comment about Go Daddy but i'm not sure US hosting is the way to go unless your users will be state side; cheap though like most US hosting.
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
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Thanks to Dom's recommendations in the past I have a couple of sites on TSO hosting packages now - best I've used in a long time! 
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