I have a friend who's looking for a shared hosting account with the following specs :-

Australian location
PHP 5.x / MySQL 5.x
10Gb Storage
10Gb Monthly Traffic
cPanel preferred, but Plesk would be OK.
Telephone support would be preferred, but prompt email based support would be OK.

He runs phpBB on the site other than that there's nothing special.

His budget is flexible, but he is looking for value for money.

Would you please give me some options to pass on to him please?

Hi Mike,

We can do this for you:

PHP 5.x / MySQL 5.x
10Gb Storage
10Gb Monthly Traffic
Unlimted E-mail
Unlimted Sub-Domains
Unlimited MySQL Databases
cPanel

Price: $24.95 per month

Feel free to contact us at anytime, or shoot me an email at james.g@dedicatedhost.net.au

Kind Regards,

James Gavin

Hi Mike,

We can do the following for you:
10GB Storage (5GB plan + 5GB disk space block added)
15GB Traffic
Unlimited Email, MySQL dbs and subdomains
cPanel

$13.95 per month ($7.95 for hosting plan + $6 for disk block).

This plan doesn't include phone support, email only. But our business based plans include 24/7 phone support.
More plans and info are available here: http://www.cove.com.au/hosting/

The site will be hosted on our state-of-the-art servers are purpose built for 64-bit processing of information, with faster page load times and quicker responses from database queries. All of our servers are located in the Primus Datacentre, Melbourne with a full BPG routed network.

Feel free to contact me on the following:
Phone: 1800 233 577
Email: sale@cove.com.au

-Gav

Dear Mike,

We can definately assist your friend with their hosting requirements, by providing the following:

Australian Custom Shared cPanel Plan

• 12GB Storage
• 15GB Bandwidth per month
• Unlimited Email Accounts
• Unlimited MySQL Databases
• Unlimited Subdomains
• Fantastico Deluxe Auto Installer
• RV SiteBuilder Pro
• PHP 5 & MySQL 5 Support

Cost Per Month: $14.95 per month **Special Offer Price Only**

We offer 24x7 Support, including phone support.

Our support methods are:

Phone: 1300 85 34 30
Email: support@hightekhosting.com.au
LiveChat: On Our Website
MSN: support@hightekhosting.com.au
Skype: hightekhosting

Please be aware that not all methods, such as live chat or msn are available 24x7, but phone and ticket support is available

If you require any further information or wish to proceed, please get in touch with us.

This offer is a special offer only listed on WHT-AU and is valid for 7 days.

Regards,

Dale Evans
Manager

Thanks everyone

They're all good offers.

My friend has been monitoring the replies and will make a decision tomorrow.

G'day Mike,
If he can hang on just a bit I may be able to make a decent offer too.

If he's not committed to phpBB, which I think is available through cPanel, I'd recommend SMF. It's more reliable, less prone to hacking, gets frequent updates and looks more professional too. It's also very easy to use and administer.

Special deal for a friend of yours, I should be able to do it for $10 to $12 a month. Only one available at that price.

We can provide 10GB storage and 10GB traffic on our Platinum plan instead of 5GB storage and 25gb traffic (i.e give up traffic for more disk space.

Details:

http://www.spiritconnect.com.au/web-...ness-websites/

We can put together a plan, please send us over an email to sales@crucial.com.au or call us at 1300 884 839.

Regards,
Aaron

Thanks for your responses everyone.

He's made his decision, so no further offers are required.