The first of such recommendations – all based on direct experience – not just bigging up my buddies!

Many years ago I moved all clients’ website hosting to United Hosting – no mean feat, even then when I had just a few dozen clients, but one that I am glad was made.

Pricing is comparable to any of the bigger names – from £5/month – but the customer service and the support is leagues ahead of others that I’ve dealt with (and often have to – some clients like to stay with their own hosting, which is fair enough but I too often then need to adjust my expectations downwards for any support we may need!).

An issue recently arose for one clients’ hosting – we needed to find out what version of MySQL they included, for WordPress purposes – it took several days to get an answer, and sadly it was not an encouraging one – this large hosting company was running a very much older version than is required to host a WordPress website – so we moved across to United Hosting.  Not only is their hosting server technology clearly available on their website, but if you couldn’t find that, you can ask them and get an answer within minutes, if not immediately.

Another good reason to be with United Hosting is that they have the necessary versions of MySQL as standard – it astonishes me that larger hosting services have outdated versions which mean that the latest WordPress cannot be so easily hosted with them – that’s a big fail in my opinion, and raises concerns about other areas which may be lacking.

Anyway – I am glad that I took the time to move every domain (about 50 at the time) across all those years ago – and in my experience, United Hosting cannot be bettered – one area in which I am very content with my provider.  Right now I host over 100 websites with them and know that they can cope as that doubles over the next year – not only cope but support me as well as I could possible want.  You really cannot beat that…

I could, of course, set myself up as a host provider myself, and while gladly take care of and manage the hosting for clients, others are better off going direct – I cannot offer 24/7 support, but they can and do – brilliantly.

So the well deserved first recommendation is for United Hosting

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