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Gold is a fitting name for this package from eUKhost. Not only does it provide a very generous 50GB monthly data transfer allowance, but it also comes with 5GB of web space, and you can create an unlimited number of email addresses and subdomains to take advantage of this data capacity.

Like all the deals from eUKhost, the Gold package runs on Linux. There's support for PHP, Perl and CGI scripting, as well as Ruby on Rails, although you'll have to look elsewhere for ASP and .NET compatibility. You can also take advantage of the shared SSL server, although a dedicated host will cost an extra £39 per year.

Although

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it's not the clearest interface we've seen, the cPanel interface provides a wealth of information about your website and a range of tools for creating, managing and optimising it. From here you have control over your email accounts, user accounts, general account settings, web-usage logs, security settings, domains, MySQL databases and additional software and services such as PHP and Perl.

The Gold Package's unlimited MySQL database slots allow you to make full use of the pre-built templates and software tools in the included Fantastico suite. These are very easy to install on your website and include e-commerce templates, wiki-frameworks, blogs such as WordPress and content managers such as Joomla.

The Gold package comes with unlimited FTP accounts, and you can add and remove files from your site using the comprehensive online file manager. You can also publish your website directly from FrontPage, as the Gold package includes FrontPage extensions.

With unlimited email accounts, unlimited SQL databases and unlimited subdomains, not to mention the generous 5GB of storage and the huge 50GB bandwidth limit, eUKhost's Gold web-hosting package is hard to beat. It's our Best Buy.