Krystal Web Hosting Review
Krystal Hosting (http://www.krystal.co.uk) is a UK hosting company who offer cPanel hosting with Fantastico scripts so you can get WordPress up and running in seconds.
There is a lot to like about Krystal – UK phone support, stable company history since 2002, 30 day no quibble money back guarantee, Fantastico installation scripts, decent prices and so on, but the completely unique thing is the Krystal data centre. You have to see this : http://www.krystal.co.uk/datacentre — What do you think ?! There can’t be anything that offers more secure hosting that that ?
There are three main plans in the web hosting section (they also offer business hosting and private servers) – Amethyst, Topaz and Ruby – all are good for running WordPress since they come with cPanel, Fantastico scripts, full support for PHP and MySQL databases. The difference in the plans is the number of domains you can host and the traffic / bandwidth and storage you can use. Another handy feature is the automatic backups (weekly & monthly).
For more advanced users / WordPress addicts / Web developers, the reseller hosting package offered by Krysal is pretty powerful. They offer a full white label where you can offer up to 250 cPanel accounts.
I was with Krystal for one year – a reseller account.
Only didn’t renew it because I had a great offer somewhere else and I just never got around to making enough websites to justify the cost of renewing with Krystal, almost regretting it already though because looking back they were very good, I have like 3 hosting accounts on the go and I didn’t notice any downtime with the sites I had at Krystal and I don’t know if any of the readers will remember the huge timthumb wordpress weakness exposed in 2011? (hit a huge number of wordpress blogs) – well I recall they were very proactive on that and installed a script to update all the files across their whole network so customers didn’t have to do anything.
So if I scale up again, would deffo be happy to host my wordpress (or any) sites with Krystal.