Web hosting

[AndyHoward]

Hey Everybody,

Are there any good Web Hosting companies out there. i currently use streamline.net but are there any better or cheaper alternatives.

From Andy

[daveismyname]

I use 2 both are really good,

Bluehost & Host Upon

[zarnage]

http://www.ochostreview.co.uk/

i use tsohost, i went by that link above

[daveismyname]

never heard of tsohost cheap pages but there's a lot of limits a lot of hosts offer a lot more for a decent prise, most of the time unlimited in terms of domains/hosting space ect

[zarnage]

i think is comes down to personal preference, i had a few, and i cant fault tsohost. yet

[AndyHoward]

Thanks for both of your suggestion I will take a look at both . When you set up a website for someone do you charge them a monthly fee to cover your costs of hosting or put it into the cost at the start. Also is there a way you work out how much to charge someone for a site, like per page or something.

[daveismyname]

you either charge them a hosting fee or add it to the cost of the project, generally speaking hosting is a separate charge.

When charging for a project you can either do it based on an hourly rate or a fixed fee.
If you do the fixed fee then work out how many hours you think it would take you then divide that by your hourly rate then times that by the hours to give you the fixed fee.

[AndyHoward]

Thanks alot, how much is the average rate per hour then or does that depend on how good you are. Don't want to over charge or sell myself short either lol

[daveismyname]

that's a tricky one it really depends on the level of your work and what your comfortable charging I'd say no less then £12 an hour

here's a few articles you may find helpful

http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/topic ... -designer/
http://blog.nerdburn.com/entries/tips-f ... ourly-rate
http://joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk/bl ... you-charge