I’ve finally got round to setting up the web hosting site for FreshWebz.

Although I offered cheap web hosting through the main web design site, Heart allows you to offer web hosting services through their online payments system, Hostpay.

However, every other time I’ve looked at setting it up, it just seemed to be too complicated, or not working properly…………this time though, I decided I HAD to get it working & spent the last 2 days pulling it apart & putting the pieces back together.

Suddenly, it all seemed to click into place (as these things often do) and my web hosting site is finally working!!

I’m offering basic web hosting from £1.49 per month, although the two main packages (Starter & SOHO) cost £2.49 & £4.49 per month respectively. However, I think these prices are still damn good value.

The reason I was so keen to get it up & running was so that I could offer web hosting without having to be as hands on. The Hostpay system allows people to register domain names & set up their hosting without any intervention from me, just like one of the mainstream companies & offering all the same extras & features that Heart Internet offer themselves.

Hopefully the low costs will attract plenty of customers!

I blogged previously about the nightmare that happened when I tried to switch my hosting from 1and1 to Heart and that I switched it back because of the additional cost of hosting more than one domain with Heart.

The nightmare has continued however, as the transfers I asked to be cancelled have not been & now I have my domains registered in 2 different places & can’t get them back yet because of the 60 day rule re registrar changes – AAAAAAGH!

On top of this, despite increasing my package to the Business PRo account, I’ve just received the following e-mail from the abuse department:

Recently we have noticed that your web site(s) is consuming a disproportionate amount of server resources (including memory and/or CPU time). Because of this, we have had to move your account off of the shared hosting server to an auxiliary server. We now request that you consider purchasing a Managed or other Dedicated Server in order to continue hosting with 1&1 Internet.

The decision to move your account was made by the system administrators in order to improve the quality of service for the rest of our clients on the shared server from which you were previously hosted. The resources consumed by your account threatened the ability of that server to capably operate as as a shared host, so it was required that your account be moved in order to mitigate server load. Though we could move your site back to the original shared hosting server, it is not recommended. Your account activity has demonstrated that your site deserves its own server to better suit its performance needs.

Please visit 1and1.com to review the server products we offer. You will have one (1) month to make a decision and migrate your account over to a
1&1 server or another host provider. You can choose to return your account back to the shared server, provided that you take steps to reduce the load generated by your websites. If the account has to be moved off the shared server system again you will only have the option of purchasing a dedicated server account to continue hosting with 1&1 Internet.

I have no idea what is causing this demand on resources & have asked them to give me more information than this! With managed servers costing a minimum of £70 a month, it looks like I have no choice but to either shut down whatever service is eating up these resources, or once again, move everything over to Heart & sign up to the Reseller plan.

I’m sick and tired of all this messing about & it’s just one problem after another…..I’m seriously considering giving this up & going to college to study a diploma in animal care!!!!

UPDATE

It appears the problem is with www.ukshoppingspree.com – something about the shop window client is causing the drain on processor time, which has been mentioned already on the shop window forum. Hopefully there will be a fix forthcoming from Affiliate Window!