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I am working on a project that will be released as open source in the latter part of the year. I am starting to think about how the accompanying website will be hosted and would greatly appreciate some advice.

**Requirements:**

*Domain #1*

* Information about the project itself (just pages and pictures).
* Documentation / Wiki
* Forums
* Download of project source (approx 3MB archive)
* Download of various themes and community contributed content (est. sizes 10KB ~ 512KB).

*Domain #2*

* Primary company website that offers products and services. This will be primarily pictures and pages.

What kind of web hosting would be best for a project like this. I am working on a very tight budget and can only afford to spend up to £250 per year for hosting this. I was considering using some sort of VPS hosting.

I found the following companies which seem to offer around this price range, but they have very mixed reviews.

* <http://www.webhosting.uk.com/>
* <http://www.eukhost.com/>
* Godaddy UK
* uk2 . net

My company is based in the UK, how important is it for me to use UK based hosting? There are plenty of overseas hosting companies that are considerably cheaper.

When it comes to bandwidth, how many downloads will **bandwidth: 100GB** get me?

Any advice would be very greatly appreciated!

Answer: 
**What kind of web hosting would be best for a project like this?**

You require nothing out of the ordinary. With your budget being a concern, any reliable shared hosting provider would be fine. There are many from which to choose (as you have noted) and there is no absolute answer.

Finding the right host for you is like finding any service provider that is right: read reviews, examine testimonials, seek recommendations from those whose opinions you trust, ask potential hosts.

Given your budget concerns, consider [Hosting Reborn pay-as-you-go hosting](http://hostingreborn.com). Through only paying for the storage and bandwidth you use, your costs and start low and will grow only in proportion to your popularity.

Disclaimer: I own and operate Hosting Reborn, I believe it is a good fit but I will be unavoidably biased to some degree.

**My company is based in the UK, how important is it for me to use UK based hosting?**

For you:  

You may wish to be able to contact your host during the same office hours as those that you keep; you may run into issues tax considerations when you reach a certain scale (pure speculation).

For your users:  

You should look at hosting your services as close as is feasible to your users. If your users will be predominantly UK-based, you will serve them best with UK-based hosting. If your users will be predominantly US-based, you will serve them best with US-based hosting.

Proximity to your users is a purely technical concern - the shorter the distance over which data must travel, the less time it will take. This is significant if serving Australian users from a US-based service. This is less significant if serving UK-based users from a German-based service. Proximity to your users will technically make a difference. Whether your users will notice is another matter.

**When it comes to bandwidth, how many downloads will bandwidth: 100GB get me?**

100GB is 102400MB. Considering your 3MB source code download, this will accommodate approximately 34,000 downloads.
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