UK Shells

EcoSpliff · Post by **EcoSpliff** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 10:18 am

I wonder if anybody knows of any good shell providers in the UK? I'm fed up of mine - the servers keep dying, and they have failed to fix my FTP (meaning the only way I know of to upload from my hard-drive, is to first upload to my websites FTP, then download it from there using the Unix FTP on my account).

Thanks for any suggestions

z_one · Post by **z_one** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 11:30 am

Just curious, what's your provider's name ?
So I don't sign up with them by mistake

z_one

EcoSpliff · Post by **EcoSpliff** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 2:01 pm

Complete Hosting: http://www.complete-hosting.com I have another much cheaper one, much more reliable, and fast, very little strain on the servers, often showing load as "0.0 0.0 0.0"

Thats, http://www.netplayuk.com (I think)

romprod · Post by **romprod** » Sat Feb 23, 2002 10:03 am

Check http://www.uksolutions.co.uk/ukshells/ I've an account on there and they seem alot more stable than others i've used.

bob · Post by **bob** » Tue Mar 19, 2002 7:03 pm

Well I have an account with http://www.complete-hosting.com and I find their service very stable. Also level of support they provide is one of the best ive ever had, thats why i stick with them because various other shell accounts I have had, takes ages to reply to any support questions you ask

RadicaL · Post by **RadicaL** » Sun Mar 24, 2002 5:26 am

Do you guys think is there any shell provider that supports emech bots ?
and also need good shell provider name for my eggdrops...

Thanks...
Unet
|RadicaL|

BogeyBum · Post by **BogeyBum** » Sun May 05, 2002 8:19 am

I used complete hosting and my eggdrop was down alot, so i cancelled.
now for the same price i use iwsds.net for around the same price and get 3 eggdrops per account.
so far i have not had any downtime

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ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon May 13, 2002 1:48 pm

UKshells are a good company.

Untill 2 weeks ago, a bot called splitatom, was sitting in 38th place in the uptime charts (13th out of the eggdrops).

This bot was mine, and had been hosted on UKshells.

With air conditioned rackmounts, 24/7 in house support, you can't go wrong.

Shell accounts are not there main goal any more, but they still support the service 100%

And if you wonder why I lost my place in the uptime charts. There site in london had a power out. They do have backup generators, that kick in beforwe the UPS units die. Yet deisel does not last forever, and you cant fill a deisel tank while it's running like a petrol tank.

I do have a second account with them too. 6 months ago, they had problems with this server, where the machine was dieing once a week. This lasted for 2 1/2 months, until they where able to fully diagnose the fault.

Out of 20, they would get a 19. The other 1 went missing when I lost my place in the uptime charts

Bever · Post by **Bever** » Tue May 14, 2002 5:17 am

But they are not really cheap...

Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Tue May 14, 2002 7:39 am

thats subjective

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Tue May 14, 2002 9:06 am

On 2002-05-14 03:17, Bever wrote:
But they are not really cheap...

You get what you pay for.

And that is Quality service.

You get more than with most other providers.

Unlimted e-mail addresses (anything@username.ukshells.co.uk) and username@ukshells.co.uk
50MB disk space (this is quite a lot)
VHost'd webspace (www.username.ukshells.co.uk)
Gurenteed 24/7 support.

The staff are frieldly and the service is second to non.

Subscribe to them for 1 year, and a cheaper provider of your choice, that you feel would provide the same sort of service.

After you have done this, I can gurentee you will say that the price is justified.

Also note, they are a 100% in house hosted provider, located in the UK. I am am wondering if you know the costs involved in quality links into the UK backbone. Besides this, only a handfull of sites can actualy be provided.

In the US, it is possible to take a backbone link, into you house, with minimal setup costs.

In the UK, this would involve planning permission, and a fee per 100 meters of cable it take from the exchange (And we are talking about data exchange, to a telephone exchange).

This is true for fiber, and dedicated single use ISDN (above 2 channels).

For a 1MB feed to my house, 2 years ago, it would have cost £7000 setup. and then £1500 a month fee. This was 2 years ago,a nd the prices have gone down, but the prices are still out of reach for many startup companies.

I also ask, if any1 from the top 50 users, in the uptime charts, can state what type of provider they are using. Not what provider, just what type (own system, commercial shell, dedicated system, work box), and the price. Then we will have a better idea, as to where stability lies. In the price, or in the service provided.