I'm looking at setting up a fairly simple website in the near future and wanted any recommendations for a hosting company. The key thing is going to be good support / customer service and reasonable cost.

I'm not after anything fancy, probably just shared hosting with php and mysql.

I'm looking at setting up a fairly simple website in the near future and wanted any recommendations for a hosting company. The key thing is going to be good support / customer service and reasonable cost.

I'm not after anything fancy, probably just shared hosting with php and mysql.

I use pac web hosting (small, uk based provider, never let me down yet and always helped me out within under an hour.)

http://www.pacwebhosting.com/pacweb/aff.php?aff=038 <-- with my affiliate link (so I'll get some cash off you, if you sign up, does not change anything for you.)

http://www.pacwebhosting.com/ <-- normal link

Other ones to check out:

http://www.eleven2.com/

http://www.asmallorange.com/

http://www.lcn.com/

Stay away from:

1&1 hosting.

I use QIQ for my parents website, been pretty happy with them, def worth a look... only £19.99 a year too (for the premium package)

http://www.qiq.co.uk/qiq3uk.php

Could also be worth looking at a linode (they have a datacentre in London now), they are $19.99 per month, but you can do alot more with it. You will need some *nix experience though...

http://www.linode.com/

You get free web space with your service provider. Enough to host a simple web site.

For very cheap, but decent shared php + mysql hosting, with decent .htaccess, you can't beat 34sp.com imo.

Sitehq.co.uk get my vote.

http://www.one.com/en/

Used them since 2004. Never let me down.

http://ariotek.co.uk/ Couple of very good friends of mine own this company, mention me to get laughed at when asking for discount

Thanks for all of those, that will give me something to go at.