UK2

By Mike Williams

Some hosts make it easy to find the product you need, but UK2’s site isn’t quite as well organised. There are highlighted plans, menus, tables, a product finder and more, but we found it hard to locate in-depth information and compare multiple products side-by-side.

Prices are higher than the big US hosts, too. The baseline Essential Hosting plan – £1 ($1.25) a month excluding VAT initially, £6 ($7.50) on renewal – looks promising at first, with a free domain name, unlimited bandwidth, web space and email addresses, and support for 10 websites. It’s good to see the excellent Softaculous one-click App installer, too. But the account is seriously hobbled with a one database maximum, even if there’s no size limit.

The Business plan – £4.50 ($5.60) per month initially, £9 ($11.20) on renewal – extends the package with unlimited websites, FTP accounts and even databases (an unusual plus; 1&1 caps even its Pro account to 1,000 databases). You also get SSH access, a dedicated IP and a free SSL certificate.

Business Cloud – £8 ($10) per month on the special intro deal, £16 ($20) afterwards – essentially gets you improved performance on faster servers with fewer users. A service SLA credits …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac