This post was going to be a review of a web host that I have used for a long time for both my Affiliate sites and other sites for clients; however I have recently become very dissatisfied by the level of service provided by Fasthosts.
I currently have an issue with one of my clients sites that is clearly an issue to do with something they have changed on their servers meaning that all the scripts are very slow and time not before they are completed. Emails to technical support have gone un-answered and following a very stiff letter and telephone conversation they blamed the problem on one of the scripts in the site. I know this not to be the case as 1. the site has been running fine, unchanged for 12 months, 2. the local copy of the site i have on my servers works fine without a problem.
This is very frustrating, but as I say, thankfully this is not the normal situation. If I had posted this a week ago it would have been a glowing report and I would have recommended my readers to use Fasthost, however I am now not so sure. Perhaps this is a one-off problem, something specific to this site and the way it works, but it does not help ones relationship with your client when you are helpless to get their site back online and support from your web host seems to be patchy.
The Fasthost package
Fasthosts do offer a very wide range of web hosting, dedicated servers, shared hosting and domain name registration services at a great price, with great performance and thankfully as discussed above problems are rare and thankfully a majority of the time these are short lived and soon get sorted by their ‘Xtreme support team’.
For the affiliate, Fasthosts can provide you with a flexible choice of options to suit your need. I use many of the Fasthosts services throughout my businesses, although I am now moving towards dedicated servers, I started out and still use Fasthosts reseller programme that offered me the opportunity to customise hosting packages to the needs to the current project.
As discussed above I still use Fasthosts for may of my projects and will be doing so for the foreseeable future.
Services Offered by Fasthosts
Domain Name Registration – From £2.95 per year
Email Hosting – Including Microsoft Exchange Mail Boxes
Web Hosting Packages – ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Python, Perl
Dedicated Servers – Linux and Windows – From £49 per month
MySQL and MSSQL Database Hosting
SSL
Reseller packages with the ability to host unlimited Domains
SiteBuilder Software
Traffic Driver Software
MatrixStats
Windows Media Streaming Servers
and more
Click here to visit Fasthosts Website to see if they suit your affiliate projects needs.
