The 25% of discount codes are likely factored into their costs, so if you pay for hosting without a discount code, essentially you're paying more than you should (or more than they expect you to). Noticed how Oak Furniture Land have sales all through the year? Those products are supposed to be sold at the 'reduced' price,That's the thing, I have no idea whether I am paying over the odds or not, and although they seem to get a bit more expensive every year, I always found them reasonable, especially when they are forever e-mailing me with discount codes of 25%+ off. I am looking to upgrade to a WP hosting with them, which if I remember correctly will cost me £200 for 2 years (before applying any discount codes) that will be less than £8.30 p/m once I get a percentage off.
Is that good, bad, reasonable? Overpriced?
Should work now.PS. It says page not found but I am not happy about the elephant!
I am looking to upgrade to a WP hosting with them, which if I remember correctly will cost me £200 for 2 years....
....Is that good, bad, reasonable? Overpriced?
The 25% of discount codes are likely factored into their costs, so if you pay for hosting without a discount code, essentially you're paying more than you should (or more than they expect you to). Noticed how Oak Furniture Land have sales all through the year? Those products are supposed to be sold at the 'reduced' price,
You can definitely get better value hosting if you shop around but often it's from 'uglier' hosting companies. GoDaddy and the such like rely on marketing and selling and well designed sites, and you can argue they target customers who don't really know what they need. I looked at some of their WP hosting features. There "Developer" package limits you to 5 sites (not many for a developer really), and the 800,000 monthly visitors equates to 16,000 visits per site, less than their basic package. You also get a free SSL certificate, which will cost you ~£50 per year to renew. Mine cost me £25, and you can only use that SSL certification on one domain.
Site 5 have a good deal with their HostPro package, that equates to about £7.50 a month, with a lot of features GoDaddy charge more for (SHH access for example). Scroll down and have a look at all the features. Shop around and compare what each host gives you for the same price.
To put it into perspective, I have 2 hosting packages with 2 different companies.
• The first (as I've probably mentioned further up the post) is a cloud reseller package with Vidahost. It costs me £299 a year. It's unlimited storage, unlimited sites, unlimited mailbox sizes.. etc...
• The second is a dedicated server with a company called DataCentre Plus, in Manchester. It costs me £900 a year! It has an Intel Dual Core @ 2.9GHz, 4GB RAM, + 500GB HDD and Windows server 2012 with MsQSL. (the only reason I bought it was to host 10 websites built in .asp).