Hosting advice needed?

[grobelaar]

So I need to find homes for my websites, before December 13th and have been looking at these deals. Its probably totally overblown for my needs, but the bandwidth is the important thing.

Question is, what's the difference between the Linux and Windows deal? Does anyone have any recommendations. Or is this all going to be hideously complicated?

Proffessional package Linux -> http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/static/hosting_overview;jsessionid=58 E226E8CC44F6FB810F9F18FF7171A6 .TC31a?__frame=_top

MS Proffessional package ----> http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/static/mshosting_chart;jsessionid=04D 1C2ACAF3EF6CEC66C74148D6773D4. TC31a?__frame=_top

It probably is, I'm looking forward to have lots of space and bandwidth, but not really looking forward to any nasty learning curves. So any tips greatly received.

Does anyone have something like this already? Will I still just be able to ftp my websites up from my Macintosh and not have to worry too much about crazy ass shit I know nothing about...

Any tips gratefully rec'd

[CV]

drop a line to Wheezer - best server value in eurotown?

[penciLneck]

there are quite a few differences between apache and IIS - but I presume your sites are static pages, and not database driven - so no probs. All you gotta do is upload. I'd go for Linux running apache anyday tho. nice and stable and plenty of speed.

I use www.php4hosting.com and I can't really fault them - unlimited mysql databases, php,perl,nice stats page and no down time as yet.

[penciLneck]

p.s. your links dont work, they are session based.

[grobelaar]

Cheers for the tips, this is what I'm thinking of getting. http://oneandone.co.uk The Professional Linux hosting deal which is basically 40gig of bandwidth and 2gig of space for £16.99 (+vat) a month. A colleague at work co-rents one of their dedicated servers and he's had no problems...

[schlongfingers]

That's a good deal - definately stick with Linux. If you want to database drive anything in the future make sure they include MySQL and PHP with the package - I'm sure they will though.

You'll have absolutely no problem FTP'ing with Mac to either Linux or IIS servers