Does that sound too good to be true?

The site is called “Getting British Business Online” and is run by a collaboration between Enterprise UK, Google, BT and e-skills UK, with the support of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

So it’s like the British Government giving away free websites to local businesses, but paid for by BT and Google. All you need is an address in the UK and a mobile phone and they register a .co.uk domain name for you and hook it up with Google sites. Then it’s yours for free for two years to promote your business, and after that you can renew the domain through BT or possibly transfer it out. In fact it looks as if you can transfer out after only 60 days if you don’t want BT to administer the domain, but you don’t have to redirect it to free Google Sites, you can redirect it to the web hosting of your choice by dialling a freephone number listed at the terms and conditions.

Getting British Business Online

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I’ve had various recommendations over the months and compiled most of them onto a wiki page: Web Hosting but it’s hard to do any kind of comparison so I usually have several in a state of trial at any one time. Moving stuff over from one web host to another is not exactly trivial so it’s a bit like the home utilities companies, you get stuck with a service you know isn’t necessarily the best value – inertia I think they call it. Then there’s the whole question of whether ti use UK web hosting at all or take advantage of some very cheap US hosting deals. Overselling is another thorny topic.

Maybe someone out there knows better, what’s the best web hosting you’ve used so far?

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