Hello,

I plan to build up a website for my small business / or private use. I am looking for a reliable hosting company. They should speak english as well as german and please not too expensive. They should be homed in europe (switzerland is not a must)

So far I have found:

https://www.hostworld.net (good prices)
https://www.hetzner.de (seems to be a big player)
https://www.strato.de (also veryyy big)

Anyone have expirience with these ?

Bests
carpenter

Hetzner has a fairly good name.

How technical are you?
What do you want to run, wordpress?

Have a look at Amazon free tier services. It takes a bit of knowledge (available on google), but you can setup a server and wordpress site in about an hour.

Hello,
thanks for your thoughts, well when I check e.g.
https://www.hostworld.net , they offer wordpress hosting with special cache plugin, maybe interesting.

Hetzner looks little bit old fashioned doesnt they?

Anyway thanks for help
carpenter

https://www.hostpoint.ch/en/

But a quick look at your hostworld said Euor 1.99/month? LOL, guess you'll find hostpoint too expensive. Yet as Jag said, all depends what you want/expect.
With hostpoint you can also have one deal and add several domains under that. I do that, got two websites so far, pay one.

Just buy a NAS and share it with the world: https://www.synology.com/en-global/k...n_Synology_NAS

If you are planning to run a business then the Web host performance is more important than the monthly price!

In CH - hostpoint.ch
In the UK - the best, but not the cheapest:
https://www.clook.net/

Hostpoint.ch is fairly good if it needs to be Switzerland. Otherwise there are lower cost options in Europe

I highly recommend Hostpoint. I've tried a few 'bargain' alternatives, but ended up disappointed in the long run. I've been with Hostpoint for a few years now, and haven't regretted it.

They're not the cheapest, but I think they're the best value — quite reasonable, actually.

I haven't relied on their English abilities, as I understand a fair amount of German and use that whenever possible. So if English is a critical matter, I'd check with them before signing up. I think they have a 30-day money-back trial offer, which should make that process fairly easy in a real-world context.

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you can put several websites under a main one (not noticeable to the world), so you pay only for one.

Probably technical people who work for webhosting companies (or any IT company) have adequate technical English since most of the technical material is in English language

A customer of mine is quite happy with hostpoint's web hosting, and their helpdesk is great, too, includung good English). However, we had numerous issues with their email service, both web-based GUI and IMAP to MS Outlook and Thunderbird. We ended up using hostpoint-based Inbox only for transparent forwarding to another provider's mailboxes, where Webmail GUI and IMAP manipulations with large mail folders were more robust.