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[Kai]

Try webinabox? Perth based hosting.
www.webinabox.com.au

Gregory Orange wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I posted here a while back about a web shop, and got quite helpful 
> responses, thanks all. Now that we've settled upon Magento as a platform 
> and are paying someone to build the actual site, we're thinking about 
> hosting space. For the short term we'll use the people who are building 
> the site because that allows time for it to get settled and working 
> properly, and will be easy access for them to fix any problems.
> 
> After a few months, we'd like to at least consider other hosting, to 
> make sure we're getting a reasonable deal. So, my question - can you 
> give me an idea of hosting providers that are worth their salt, and how 
> much we should expect to pay to host a web shop. The business is 
> for-profit, but hardly any (and no income for the owners) - maybe in 
> time it will grow. I don't know where it should be hosted, but all of 
> the customers are in Western Australia, perhaps one day there will be 
> other Australian customers.
> 
> If we do change hosting, I imagine migration will be a cinch? Dump the 
> MySQL database, tar up the entire htdocs (or whatever) dir; move over to 
> the new environment; change DNS, and all's peachy... right? Some down 
> time I suppose, so that would have to be publicised.
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg.