I am losing MONEY from my UK customers

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Swiper Da Viper, May 17, 2007.

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    Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated

    Basically, I am based in the UK and I have a busy ecommerce site with a .com address which is hosted on a USA hosting company.

    The hosting company I am using in the states are fantastic, but when UK customers search on Google (UK results only) my site is removed from these results because I have a .com domain name and the site is hosted in the States.

    So one fix for this problem is to find a UK hosting company (VPS Hosting), but the thing is I have tried two hosting companies from the UK, but support was terrible and the downtime was unacceptable. Or another fix is to redirect them to a mirrored site with a .co.uk address, but I am not keen on that idea as I am afraid that my ranking will drop.

    This is the package I currently have:-

    Virtual Private Sservers (solo package)

    3 GB Burst RAM
    1 GB Guaranteed RAM
    60 GB Storage
    1250 GB Monthly Transfer
    4 IP Addresses
    30 GB Free Backup Server Space
    Additional Backup Space $1/GB
    Unlimited Domains
    Unlimited User Accounts
    CentOS 4 Operating System
    100% Of CPU Guaranteed

    Minimum Server Specs
    P4 3.0 GHz
    800 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)
    1 MB L2 Cache
    Server-Class Case
    1 GB Physical RAM
    SA

    So does anybody know of any GOOD VPS hosting companies from the UK that can offer a similar package, with good support, and low downtime
     
    Swiper Da Viper, May 17, 2007 IP
  2. Matsta

    Matsta Well-Known Member

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    Matsta, May 17, 2007 IP
  3. Swiper Da Viper

    Swiper Da Viper Peon

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    Thank you very much,

    I have just spoken to them and they sound very good
     
    Swiper Da Viper, May 17, 2007 IP
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    Matsta Well-Known Member

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    Just to let you know, Cheapvps.co.uk, is owned by a2b2 so they are the same, just a2b2 costs more.
     
    Matsta, May 18, 2007 IP
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    True...costly for some particular plans though.
     
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    Better try a dedicated with that specs..
     
    inworx, May 20, 2007 IP
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    cheapvps and a2b2 owned by rus which is a reliable and Rus is the person you can trusted!
     
    h4nh4n, May 20, 2007 IP