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Namesco (names.co.uk) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2016.
Planet Hippo (planethippo.co.uk) has been added on 📅 .

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names.co.uk logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
✓ Company descriptions is fine
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
✓ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
✓ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
✓ Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
Note: Add a promotion or coupon

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👉 Total Reviews: 12
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 1
👎 Bad Reviews: 11
👈 Official Responses: 0 2 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

12 user reviews		planethippo.co.uk logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
✓ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
✓ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
✓ Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
Note: Add a promotion or coupon

Things to do
✗ Company descriptions is too short. Minimum 500 chars
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👉 Total Reviews: 1
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
👈 Official Responses: 0 1 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

1 user reviews
 
Namesco
Acton House, Perdiswell Park
Worcester wr3 7gd
UK
Part of REGISTER
names.co.uk
Planet Hippo
Hollis House, Maesbury Road
Oswestry SY10 8NR
UK

planethippo.co.uk
📧 Emailsales@n...sales@p...
☎ Phone0345 363 36300845 22 60 555
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 29,557▼-8,984 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 137▼-3 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in GB 982
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 82/63🔗 Links 145,876		🏆 Alexa Rating 8,302,490▲2,257,827 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in GB 55,151
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 28/37🔗 Links 3,750
Languages en-GBen-US
📄 InfoWith an experience of over 18 years in the hosting field, Namesco has web hosting solutions and services for individuals, businesses or developers. They are proud to have over 650, 000 websites hosted with their company.

Among the products provided by Namesco, we can mention: Shared Hosting; Virtual Private Servers; Dedicated Servers; Reseller Hosting Email Hosting; Website Builder SSL Certificates; Domain Registration;

Shared hosting plans come with a free domain name (you can [...] Read full review		Planet Hippo Internet: Whether you are looking for great value for your personal website or require more advanced hosting features for your business, we have the right solution for you. Our hosting packages come with everything you need: speed and reliability, loads of fast UK hosted web space, free domain name or free .com transfer, large mailboxes (up to 10GB) and we're proud to introduce our new unlimited hosting package. Read full review
📡 EstablishedAugust, 19962005
🏁 Site speedFast, load time 1.5 seconds 63% sites are slower
SEO Links count 885		Slow, load time 3.0 seconds 22% sites are slower
SEO Links count 24
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
names.co.uk Iconnamesco
Started from: August, 2009
  • Tweets: 7,246
  • Followers: 3,588
  • Friends: 1,564
  • Last activity:
planethippo.co.uk IconPlanetHippo
Started from: January, 2012
  • Tweets: 1,690
  • Followers: 6,717
  • Friends: 7,695
  • Last activity:
names.co.uk Iconnames.co.uk
  • Likes:
  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

planethippo.co.uk IconPlanet Hippo Internet Ltd
  • Likes:
  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

Namesco Limited
  • Followers: 693
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 1996
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
Planet Hippo Internet Ltd
  • Followers: 3
  • Entity type: Public Company
  • Founded: 2005
  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industry: Internet
Namesco Blog
  • Blog Posts: 380
  • Software Wordpress version 6.4.3
  • Blog added on: Feb, 2012
  • Language: en-GB
  • Last written post:

Planet Hippo Blog
  • Blog Posts: 42
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2013
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

🔧 Shared Hosting - 3/1
💡 Plan NameStarter [Linux/Windows]cPanel Basic [Linux]
💰 Price£ 4.12/mo. VAT 20% exc$ 3.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space50 GB3 GB
📶 Data Transferunmetered10 GB
🔌 Hosted domains1 
🆓 Free Domain1 
🔨 Control PanelCPanel
🌏 Server LocationUnited Kingdom
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Databases 2 x 500MB
Email Accounts 10
I/O (KB/s) 1024
Processor 1vCPU
RAM (MB) 512

VAT: Business EX 20%
Personal INC 20%

All packages include:

FREE domain
Get online immediately with a free domain name. Choose from the most popular extensions including .co.uk, .uk, .online & many [...]		N/A
📅 Date PlanApr 2020Dec 2014
💡 Plan NameProfessional [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price£ 9.16/mo. VAT 20% exc-
💿 Disk Space300 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains5-
🆓 Free Domain1-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server LocationUnited Kingdom-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Databases Unlimited x 1GB
Email Accounts 100
I/O (KB/s) 1024
Processor 1vCPU
RAM (MB) 1024
SSH Access
VAT: Business EX 20%
Personal INC 20%

All packages include:

FREE domain
Get online immediately with a free domain name. Choose from the most popular extensions including .co.uk, .uk, .online [...]		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
💡 Plan NamePremium [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price£ 11.91/mo. VAT 20% exc-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain1-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server LocationUnited Kingdom-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Databases Unlimited x 2GB
Email Accounts Unlimited
I/O (KB/s) 2048
Processor 2vCPU
RAM (MB) 2048
SSH Access

VAT: Business EX 20%
Personal INC 20%

All packages include:

FREE domain
Get online immediately with a free domain name. Choose from the most popular extensions including .co.uk, .uk, [...]		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
🔧 Dedicated Hosting - 1/0
💡 Plan NameEnterprise [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Priceon request-
💿 Disk Space8000 GB-
📶 Data Transfer30 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPUDual Intel Xeon Silver 4114 @ 2.2GHz 20 Cores-
🔋 RAM64 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs1-
🔨 Control PanelPlesk-
🌏 Server LocationUnited Kingdom-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)64GB DDR4
4 x 2TB Storage
RAID 10
Plesk Web Host Edition
Dual Redundant Power
Dual Redundant Network
Internet Connection - 1Gbp/s Port
RapidSSL
1st year FREE

Plesk Control Panel
With access to full reseller controls, you have the flexibility to utilise your server whenever you like. You can [...]		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
🔧 Reseller Hosting - 1/0
💡 Plan NameReseller [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price£ 29.16/yr. VAT 20% exc-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server LocationUnited Kingdom-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Databases Unlimited x 100MB

Hosted Accounts - Unlimited

Email Accounts - Unlimited

Limitless Web Hosting

Easy account management

Re-sell hosting & email

Customise pricing & packages

No administration fees

Rebrandable Control Panel

Intelligent SSD hosting

Create a regular income [...]		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
🔧 Exchange Hosting - 1/0
💡 Plan NameExchange [Windows]-
💰 Price£ 5.49/mo. VAT 20% exc-
💿 Disk Space50 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited Kingdom-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Webmail with calendar
Antivirus / spam
Unlimited email addresses
Calendar & contact sync

Secure backup
Emails are stored on our secure servers or in the Cloud for Microsoft Exchange users so even if you lose your mobile, you won't lose your emails.

Virus & spam protection
Keep your [...]		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
🔧 Domains - 1/0
💡 Plan Name.com-
💰 Price£ 1.99/yr.-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Why choose us:

Fantastic customer service
Rest assured of friendly, quick service whenever you need us. Become a customer and you’ll get access to our user-friendly Online Control Panel, where you can manage your services and account with us 24/7/365.

Fantastic customer service
Rest assured of [...]		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
🔧 SSL Certificates - 1/0
💡 Plan NameWildcard SSL OV-
💰 Price£ 41.58/yr. VAT 20% exc-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Validation Organisation
Protected Domains 1
Protected Subdomains Unlimited
Encryption Level Up to 256 bit
Estimated Setup time Up to 5 days
Secure Seal		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
🔧 Website Builder - 1/0
💡 Plan NameProfessional-
💰 Price£ 7.49/mo. VAT 20% exc-
💿 Disk Space5 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain1-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited Kingdom-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Web Pages - Unlimited
Professional Templates
Free Domain Name*
Free Email - 5GB
Free SSL Certificate
SEO Tools
Developer Tools
Edit By Device
Website Personalisation
Website Backups
Multi-language
Scheduling & Bookings
Password Protected Pages
Blog

Packages also include:

FREE [...]		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
🔧 Emails - 1/0
💡 Plan NameStarter [Linux]-
💰 Price£ 2.99/mo. VAT 20% exc-
💿 Disk Space5 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited Kingdom-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Webmail with calendar
Antivirus / spam
Unlimited email addresses

Secure backup
Emails are stored on our secure servers or in the Cloud for Microsoft Exchange users so even if you lose your mobile, you won't lose your emails.

Virus & spam protection
Keep your inbox safe from malicious [...]		-
📅 Date PlanApr 2020-
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux/Windows
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Linux
📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Dedicated Hosting
  • Reseller Hosting
  • Exchange Hosting
  • Domains
  • SSL Certificates
  • Website Builder
  • Emails
  • Shared Hosting
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
Andy Walters (andy@a...)
on 📆 Dec 14, 2009
😃 Choose the right account and you get what you pay for. Recommended. as far as I am concerned. Have been with Namesco since they took over my old host Smartchoice back in 1998. Have a Designer Plus account with around twenty Linux hosted domains. As [...]

-anonymous- (gurminder@c...)
on 📆 Nov 11, 2021
😠 I have been a loyal customer for well over a decade. Today namesco has frozen one of my customer accounts for 2.36GB over quota. They email a warnings, but not that they will freeze your account.I want to stress i pay for the unlimited storage [...]


-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Feb 12, 2017
😠 My experience with planet hippo started off well, problems were dealt with quickly until November 2016 when it went downhill, Servers started going down, connections were slow, yet all the answers i got were its fixed try it now.No explaination [...]

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