Webuser Forums: good and bad web hosting?

I used 1and1 for a while and they were excellent. I couldn't get to grips with their online website creator tool though, I found it very slow and cumbersome and as I had no html experience whatsoever at that time I needed a host with a better online website creator tool so I chose streamline.net.

They are, on the whole quite good, and very reasonable at just £23.99 per year for their basic package. However I used the Site Wizard to create my website, which I think is a third party tool and the files are stored on a third party server (which I didn't know then but I certainly do now). The other week they lost my files!! I only have a 1 page site at the moment, but nevertheless it took me about three hours to recreate it from scratch. Luckily my site was still on Streamlines server and as I have since learnt basic html I could look at the page source and recreate it exactly as it was before. Had it been a previous personal site that I'd made with Site Wizard which was about 10 pages and I had put hours and hours into, then I would have been really sick.

The moral being that whilst Streamline may be OK, their Web Wizard is not to be trusted, so I'd advise anyone planning on making a site of more than 1 page to learn html and store the files on your own PC.

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