Whilst this blog isn’t really about hosting, hosting is something all website owners need to consider.

This website is currently hosted with 1&1 and to date, I have been very happy with the service I have received. Above all, it works out very cost effective for someone with my needs where I host many domains with small websites receiving minimal traffic. There is not additional cost for hosting 1 website or 100 websites (apart from the domain name itself.)

After reading some terrible reports on 1&1’s customer service department, I have started to look around. One of the companies I have considered is United Hosting. They are a UK company, hosting in UK data centers with some good write-ups around the web, some of which are re-published on the United website.

There are many factors to consider when choosing a hosting company and uptime is only one of them, however I thought I would publish these stats I have found using a free trial of the Pingdom server monitoring service, monitoring servers found on United Hosting’s status page :

I was quite happy to move my business to United Hosting, however that amount of downtime is unacceptable to me. The search continues….

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