UK Hosting for ModX

Thanks for the nice comments rhtrash.

I know this might sound odd, but why are you looking for a uk host, use a host in the usa and take advantage of the pound v dollar, you will get more for your cash.

@simonok google.co.uk gives a lower pagerank for .co.uk domains hosted on servers with a US IP. Also, you have issues of poorer performance if your audience is mostly in the UK, server maintenance schedules optimised for Pacific time not GMT, and access to support in UK office hours.

I can recommend United Hosting, particularly for reseller hosting (they’ve cleaned up most of the recent awards).
http://www.unitedhosting.co.uk/

I don’t think that is true? or at least I`ve not read anything in seo forums about google degrading pagerank based on location of hosting. I have had my site on a uk host, and changed it to a us host without google downgrading pagerank, its also been on 1&1 who were in Germany.

Mind you worth a bit of research on the topic...

I’ve seen this happen to one of my sites about a year and a half ago when switching to a US server (we switched back sharpish); it’s possible the PR algorithm may have changed since then. Discussion here...
http://tinyurl.com/2ruu33

I would say that if your customers are based in the UK, and their customers are also from the UK it makes more sense to be hosted in the UK as the speed will be slightly quicker.

We started off renting servers in the states and two years ago decided to purchase our own servers and have them located in a data centre in London.

Since moving all of our customers sites we got a great response, pages loaded a little quicker but the main notice was FTP was now running at lighting fast speeds.

Hosting locally (or regionally) is better, less hops along the way. Just think of the logistics of a request leaving the UK and making its way to the US and then returning to the UK. There will be many more stops and potential bottle necks along the way. When hosting in your own region the speed will increase greatly (well, at least slightly).

Unless hosting services are so crappy in your region that you’re better off with the UK or US hosting...

I like the way OneSmartHost is responsive here! I’d certainly consider them if I needed a UK host. I have a UK client who has been running on UnitedHosting and he’s been happy with them. Though their hosting panel takes a bit of getting used to, they’re pretty easy to work on. United is running Linux.