£4.69 per month inc VAT

From www.payh.co.uk

PayAsYouHost is the web-hosting arm of broadband service provider PlusNet.

Its Standard web-hosting package comes with just 250MB of storage space for your website, the least of all the reports here, and a 1.5GB monthly data transfer limit, which is also among the lowest.

PC Magazine Review comments:

"Luckily for PayAsYouHost, there's more to hosting than raw data specifications. The Standard package enables you to create an unlimited number of email addresses, which are accessible through webmail or a POP3/IMAP mail client such as Outlook. This provides enormous flexibility, as does the uncapped number of subdomains, and makes this service ideal for large clubs or organisations."
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You manage your domain and hosting account through a Plesk-based control panel. This clean, straightforward interface makes the daily housekeeping tasks easy. It includes an online file manager for uploading your files, but you can also use FTP.

Unfortunately, though Plesk is not as common a control panel as Cpanel and users will find a lack of support from quite a number of scripts most of which are written with Cpanel based web hosts in mind.

No site-building tools or other useful extras are included, but there is a good range of scripting support, including PHP, Perl and CGI, and this is one of only two Linux-based packages here that supports ASP.

Database implementation is good, although in the end restricted in size by the relatively small allocation of web space, there's no limit to the number of MySQL databases you can establish.

This is a real bonus if you need to write a lot of blogs, or use Content Management scripts like Joomla etc.

Domain registration, is not included so you will have to budget for that separately at between £5 and £10 per year per domain.

If you plan to host a lot of media files, the 250MB web space is really not large and you could easily reach your bandwidth limit, but the combination of unlimited email accounts, SQL databases and subdomains will make this a good choice for some.

Unlimited databases Unlimited email addresses Limited web space and bandwidth

250MB storage, 1.5GB/month bandwidth, unlimited email accounts, Linux OS. No domain included