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There seem to be a fair few computer geeks out there, so I'm thinking that someone might have a bit of insight.

I'm looking to set up a website and I'm wondering does anyone have any recommendations about who is good value?

Probably won't be much more than raw html, maybe a bit of PHP if I'm feeling saucy. And the traffic won't be massive.

And who is good value for .ie domain names?

Just as a matter of interest who hosts the ICB site? Or is that a trade secret?

I've toyed with the idea of this in the past and always seem to come back to Hosting365.com.

"Poc":2o2210l7 wrote: a bit of PHP if I'm feeling saucy[/quote:2o2210l7]
Mmmm...
[img:2o2210l7]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc236/thebeernut/php.jpg[/img:2o2210l7]

I haven't looked at the ie domains in ages, as until recently you had to be a business to qualify for one.

I generally register domains via <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="www.GoDaddy.com">www.GoDaddy.com, as they're pretty good value for .com, .net and .org type domains.

ICB is hosted by a friend of mine who resells shared hosting, Interlogic[/url:22w75gec].

I've usually found Irish hosting to be very over priced, at least back when I was registering my own personal domain and looking for hosting. At that time I went for a UK company to be at least in the same time zone, but if I was doing it now I'd probably look to the US as there's some very cheap hosting to be had. And with this exchange rate, paying for a year in advnce would be very good value.

Having said that, Hosting365, or Register365[/url:22w75gec] (that's what I got redirected to) is looking pretty good value compared to a even three years ago. You have to go for the Unix hosting it seems to get PHP. This site runs on PHP but is on a Windows platform (I was originally going to go ASP.Net with some personal projects, but the hosting ended up getting used for ICB <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->) Anyway, I digress, and I need sleep...

In a previous life I used to find the services of hosting365 quite good if not the absolute cheapest. They were also good if you wanted to go the ecommerce route providing joined up services for oscommerce and Irish based payment services ssl etc.

[i:30n1y49s]suffers cold shivers up the back at the thought of all that IT work[/i:30n1y49s]

Heh. In a previous life, I ran Hosting365's shared hosting. Shudder.

Decent guys though, though you pay for it being Irish.

John