Hosting Transfer

BCA have made the decision to move away from FastHosts to Memset for our Internet Hosting Services. There are several reasons for the move:

• Poor service Fasthosts had a good reputation when we signed up with them, but the level of service we have experienced on occasions has been very poor.
• Control We have very little control over the server and rely on Fasthosts to make the changes we request. Frequently they wouldn't, spuriously claiming “security reasons” and thereby prevent perfectly good software from being run. A Dedicated Server would give us total control but comes at an unaffordable price. The solution we have gone for is a Virtual Private Server (VPS) which gives us complete control at a more sensible price.
• Features Memset's pricing structure allows us to include many features in the basic package that were chargeable extras before. Spam filtering, a database, statistics, password protected areas and more are now included in the basic package. See Pricing

NB Domain Registration will remain with Fasthosts, it is the email and web hosting that is moving. We have had no problems with Fasthosts as a registrar. It is amongst the cheapest and is considerably cheaper than Memset.

• The new server is a Linux Server, previously there was a choice between Windows or Linux.
• The main effect of that is that you have more control of File Permissions and that the file names are Case-Sensitive.

The old server largely ignored permissions. All files were readable, writeable and executable (rwx) by everybody.