Bandwidth & other questions

[BMadgett]

Hi,

I'm considering purchasing a "Shocking Value" shared hosting package. What I'm particularly interested in is actually the email hosting, but seeing as the shared hosting is only ?2.50/yr more then I'll probably go for that seeing as it appears to offer identical email capabilities plus also web hosting.

The only difference I can see is that the email package has "unmetered bandwidth" whereas the shared hosting package is down as "10Gb". I presume this is per month? And does email traffic count towards this bandwidth limit, or is that just for web/file access? I get a fair bit of spam and would hate for spam messages to eat into my bandwidth allowance...

"Hosted domains" and "Email Accounts" are listed as "Unlimited" - does this imply I can have a .com and a .co.uk with email accounts for both, all for the single ?12.50/yr?

My domains are currently registered with Nicnames; I have a .com and a .co.uk. Is it a simple exercise to get these transferred to be hosted by yourselves? They currently have customised CNAME, MX and nameserver records, I assume these would be updated to point at your servers as appropriate whilst you are doing the transfer? - or would I need to figure all that out afterwards?

Cheers

Barnaby

[Steve]

Hello Barnaby,

Thank you for your interest in StaticHost Internet Services!

The only difference I can see is that the email package has "unmetered bandwidth" whereas the shared hosting package is down as "10Gb". I presume this is per month?
Yes, that is correct. It is 10GB of monthly bandwidth.

And does email traffic count towards this bandwidth limit, or is that just for web/file access? I get a fair bit of spam and would hate for spam messages to eat into my bandwidth allowance...
Email traffic does count towards this bandwidth limit; however emails don't use very much bandwidth so you probably wouldn't notice much of the 10GB get eaten by emails.

"Hosted domains" and "Email Accounts" are listed as "Unlimited" - does this imply I can have a .com and a .co.uk with email accounts for both, all for the single ?12.50/yr?
Yes, that is correct. You can host as many domains as you want on your account, meaning each one will have its own web files, email accounts, etc.

My domains are currently registered with Nicnames; I have a .com and a .co.uk. Is it a simple exercise to get these transferred to be hosted by yourselves?
It is a very simple process to host these domains with StaticHost. All you would have to do is login to your Nicnames control panel and change the domain's nameservers to point to ours. When you sign up, you will get an email stating what nameservers to use.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask. :)


Regards,