Uk hosting is that were you get UK base data center .and there are many hosting site which provide UK hosting you will get search on Google

UK based companies? Or do you mean a company that offers hosting off UK servers?

There are many webhosting providers you will find in uk if you search in google. Go through reviews about their customer service before choosing one of them.

Is it network and hardware uptime you are looking for or reliability of support and whole solution?

I think it totally depends on your requirements by the way check this website out 34sp.com

You should always try to host your website as close to your target audience. There are two main reasons for this -firstly it allegedly helps with search engine optimisation but more importantly it will help with the load time of your website.

If you are a US company trying to sell to the UK market, a server in the US will have approximately 100ms overhead on ping times here in he UK and vice versa.

UK hosting was historically more expensive than our US counterparts mainly due to bandwidth costs, but not so these days. I would say that UK pricing was just as competitive.

Like anywhere, customer service can vary dramatically from company to company so try contacting them first with a couple of technical questions to see how quickly they respond to you.

Steve

There are many reliable UK hosting companies which are worth to be tried.

Do not compromise what had been planned about for the web site just to meet the level of what can just be offered with the cheap web hosting package. Try to search for other cheap web hosting packages that offer the applications needed for the web site.

As stated by many others in the thread, you can find a number of hosts offering reliable hosting services in the UK. You may measure reliability of a particular host in different ways such as :

• Round The Clock Support
• Mediums to communicate with the Technical Support
• Datacenter that houses the servers
• Server Hardware
• Internet Backbones
• ETA and SLA etc.

Inorder to stay clear from any confusions, it is important to be aware of your requirements and then seek a host who is able to best suffice it.

I haven't bought the hosting in UK, but I've heard that VAT and Peter are very nice.

Just curious - what's nice about VAT and Peter?

I was wondering the same

pricing in the UK has nothing to do with the cost on bandwidth prices or VAT.

why it is much more expensive that USA is all down to the cost of untilities to datacenters.

Electricity and Water are almost double what these cost in the USA

The best place to search for affordable web site hosting plans is the internet itself. Thousands of it will appear when search upon at online search engines.

The 2 primary cost differences _traditionally_ between UK hosting and US hosting were
* datacentre costs are 4-6 times that of the US due to the available amount of space
* traditionally UK companies provides a higher level of service, lower level of overselling (partly because it was viewed as unacceptable to oversell - now it's just illegal)

Pricing now on _comparable_ services is about the same on a $=£ ratio, it's just more difficult to pick the bedroom-isp-one-man-bands from the real providers now.