They do suggest you donate some money to the charity they're collecting for, which is worth it for this deal, although it's not compulsory.
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haleluohao
9 Jun 164#1
actually the web hosting is not worth it. Openshift is free and better.
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MoshaDevastator
13 Jun 16#28
I moved my hosting to them last week, pretty good so far. But time will tell!
Gavin01
11 Jun 16#26
i have no experiance in web design but need to help some one who doesnt even have a clue about the internet get a website!!! for there business.....any ideas?
spruceyb to Gavin01
12 Jun 16#27
Wixster recommended https://www.tsohost.com/web-hosting and they look pretty good for £15 a year, they have "1 click apps", so you install a Content Management System, something like Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. They are pretty easy to setup.
a5h73y
10 Jun 16#25
If you didn't know already, they don't accept PayPal, just answering questions for the curious.
Athia
10 Jun 16#16
Lost a LOT of trust in LCN after I got thousands of returned spam/phishing emails because someone was sending spam emails with me listed as a sender. It was an email address I had ONLY used with LCN, so they must have sold it to a spammer.
hass123 to Athia
10 Jun 16#24
Anyone know how to stop this? I'm having similar problems on Hotmail, I used an email address with O2 and paid off the contract and finished it, I assume O2 sold off my email details and now even though I report them as phishing I still get loads of sh*t spam
I don't know, while bandwidth might not be metered, you only have 512MB RAM per Gear and the CPU must be limited too (as there are 4 types of gear size).
I guess it depends on the video and how many people watch.
I'm no expert in things like that though.
nero212
10 Jun 16#18
Anyone here know much about SEO? Done a fare bit of research and spent hours trying to improve things, but still really struggling to rank well on google! Any help or advice is very much appreciated :smiley:
MoshaDevastator to nero212
10 Jun 161#21
SEO expert reporting in, drop me a DM.
LCN was incredibly slow when hosting my Wordpress site, despite my speed optimisation efforts. Just a warning if you're trying to rank for any half-competitive search terms.
androoski
10 Jun 16#20
OK, thanks, I do prefer to use the simple stuff and avoid adding cruft like ruby.
What do people use the rhc stuff for that I might miss if I kick it into touch?
haleluohao
10 Jun 16#19
More importantly, as a cloud service, you can scale your application later much easier and you get more controls.
haleluohao
10 Jun 16#17
Actually is quiet easy, the tutorial is a bit outdated.
Basically you create an app(website), add all the components you need.
Use Putty to generate public-private key pair. copy paste the public key to the app dashboard(settings).
Now you can use Winscp to get into the file system(like ftp,but it is sftp) by using the private key. You will find the connection string from app dashboard.
youcantbeserious
10 Jun 16#15
Any use for streaming the odd video since the bandwidth is unlimited
chrisnoon74
10 Jun 16#14
Lcn support is good but that makes up for the poor self service portal. For example you can only update one NS every 30 minute.
mikerr
10 Jun 16#13
£1 for a year, then jumps to £60
pete_l
10 Jun 16#12
Just be aware that having a 1p debit to your credit card is one sign that someone has scammed your card and is testing to see if it still works. My bank froze my card because of a small transaction like this, which their anti-fraud system detected. I had to phone them, go through a validation & approval process before I could use it again.
wixster
10 Jun 162#11
I'm a professional web/designer by trade, they ran this same deal last year.
It's worth it for maybe hosting a small site or if you've got an extra side project idea. But I wouldn't recommend it for anything major, it's a little slow and no real cPanel access, plus then after the year you will either have to pay the full amount for the next year or have the headache of migrating to a slightly better hosting platform.
I'd recommend TSOHost personally, there's 10% discount codes on Hotukdeals too.
mikes123
10 Jun 16#10
I have been with LCN for years, I can't comment on this deal but LCN are very good. You can always get through to a human in the UK.
haleluohao
9 Jun 164#1
actually the web hosting is not worth it. Openshift is free and better.
moneysavingkitten to haleluohao
9 Jun 16#3
Thanks for that, will give it a look.
siliconbits to haleluohao
10 Jun 16#7
Can't see anything about storage or bandwidth offered. Unless I am looking at the wrong site (that's the RedHat one right?)
androoski to haleluohao
10 Jun 16#9
Well indeed, I can only thank you. I've been looking for hosting that does Mongo and NodeJS and I can get a dev environment for free using docker containers on openshift. Amazing what you find using HUKD !!
Oh, and this deal: hot.
Edit:
Now having been through the OpenShift setup, it's quite a faff with some unreliable documention and requirement to install and use old outdated versions of Ruby and GIT and some messing with public/private keys. For beginners I wouldn't recommend OpenShift, LCN would be much more straightforward.
(I am an LCN customer, I still use them for domains and I used their hosting for years too).
spruceyb
10 Jun 161#8
1GB Storage per "gear", bandwidth is 'unlimited' in the fact it can handle 5 page requests a second, after that it will take an forever to load the pages until your within the 5/s. Equates to 15K visitors per month, so not bad for free.
F4STFORW4RD
10 Jun 16#5
Does Openshift allow you to host a website? All it seems to talk about is apps...
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They do suggest you donate some money to the charity they're collecting for, which is worth it for this deal, although it's not compulsory.
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Latest comments (28)
I guess it depends on the video and how many people watch.
I'm no expert in things like that though.
LCN was incredibly slow when hosting my Wordpress site, despite my speed optimisation efforts. Just a warning if you're trying to rank for any half-competitive search terms.
What do people use the rhc stuff for that I might miss if I kick it into touch?
Basically you create an app(website), add all the components you need.
Use Putty to generate public-private key pair. copy paste the public key to the app dashboard(settings).
Now you can use Winscp to get into the file system(like ftp,but it is sftp) by using the private key. You will find the connection string from app dashboard.
It's worth it for maybe hosting a small site or if you've got an extra side project idea. But I wouldn't recommend it for anything major, it's a little slow and no real cPanel access, plus then after the year you will either have to pay the full amount for the next year or have the headache of migrating to a slightly better hosting platform.
I'd recommend TSOHost personally, there's 10% discount codes on Hotukdeals too.
Oh, and this deal: hot.
Edit:
Now having been through the OpenShift setup, it's quite a faff with some unreliable documention and requirement to install and use old outdated versions of Ruby and GIT and some messing with public/private keys. For beginners I wouldn't recommend OpenShift, LCN would be much more straightforward.
(I am an LCN customer, I still use them for domains and I used their hosting for years too).
https://www.openshift.com/features/technologies.html