UH Hosting www.uh-hosting.co.uk Review

Good Points
Cheap hosting, but this has been a painful way to learn that you get what you pay for.

Bad Points
Frequent downtime.
Slow response to tickets.
Recurrent problems with no long term fix.
Incapable of setting up a new account without being chased.

General Comments
They were recommended to me two years ago by another webmaster; someone who is usually spot on with their judgement. On this occasion, they got it badly wrong.



The experience of hosting with UH has been nothing short of a fiasco. It kicked off with problems setting up my account. Five days and three e-mails were required to get this done.



Everything went OK for a couple of months, then there were big problems in September/October 2005. Sites were offline for around 10 days, there was no contact from technical support, but finally the problem was fixed, and fingers crossed, I decided to give it one last try.



Since then, there has been at least one problem per month, all of which have resulted in profitable sites being offline for an unacceptable length of time. Most of the problems were due to basic errors in server configuration. For UH Hosting read amateur hour.



I've moved all my sites from UH Hosting to reliable hosting companies, where you pay a little more but get a lot extra in terms of reliability and support. If you are considering using UH Hosting to host your site, you need your bumps felt; and after they've been felt, go elsewhere.