If you want cheap, reliable hosting, check out DarkenHosting.com.

£12 a year buys this:
# 12 Gb of webspace
# 17 Gb bandwidth
# FREE domain name
# Cpanel
# Unlimited webmail
# Unlimited Subdomains
# PHP support
# MySQL
# Message Boards
# PRE written Cgi Scripts

As you'd expect for that price, yes, it is shared hosting. Probably with a few thousand people, but pages load just as fast as any other site, and downloads are reasonably fast, too.

Oh, and the customer support is speedy but about as professional as a fish on a stick. When inquiring about my domain transfer, and why nominet were being so slow, the response was "nominet suck ***". Despite this, the person in charge is very friendly and extremely fast - if you don't care about professional support, they're a must.

Not only do you get all the above at the top, but unlike others for this price, it's an honest company with very, very little server downtime. And no ads at all.

To be perfectly honest, I can't see how the **** they make a profit. I mean, £12 for a year including the domain? That's a bloody good price. Anybody got any ideas?

My advice is, if you don't believe me, set up an account and see for yourself!

They really give you 12GB of space? we have an offer but without a domain for 12 month's, £13

lol

http://www.darkenhosting.com/contact.htm = no information
http://www.darkenhosting.com/about.htm = no information

You might want to let them know they are breaking the law by not displaying their address:

"The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000"
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2000/20002334.htm

You do have to show your address in the UK on the site but not sure if you do in other countries US?

The owner of the domain is UK based:

darkenhosting
Leicester
UK

Well look at the signup form...

http://www.darkenhosting.com/forms/forms/form1.html


Method of Payment: Check? by looking it is run by school kids


http://www.darkenhosting.com/support.htm


Love there Support

Lol, I know it does look like it's run by kids... nah I think method of payment is paypal!

They're based in a flat in Leicester... and yes, you get a domain and hosting for £12. To anybody who's not fussy abouthaving a professional host, I still highly recommend them.

Funny how banneradder.com and darkenhosting.com are owned by the same person?

Yes, it is, isn't it? It's because the host, darkenhost, are the official owners of the domain - when you sign up with them, they own it - although you can own it yourself for a £5 processing fee. You will notice that any site hosted by them has the same whois information.

Please don't jump to conclusions so quickly, I think I'm owed an apology. Oh yeah, and if I did own darkenhost, why would I talk about their customer service so honestly?

Your inital post doesn't seem like a recommendation it looks like an advert, that why I made that comment. Wasn't trying to offend.

Guys, change the hole web site
Your web design is made by a real profesionalists :=) LOL

Fair enough. But that kind of offer is pretty rare, so I thought I'd share it like that instead of just linking to it.

Change the whole website? Don't look at me.