Like most web developers and small businesses I’m always on the lookout for the best web services that offer great value for money and make our lives easier and more productive at the same time.

If you are looking to start your own web hosting services, ideal for designers, developers and entrepreneurs.

All come with 24/7 support and are UK hosted. Instant setup and activation.

Fasthosts – 6 months free

• Save £300 normal price £50 per month
• Unlimited reseller hosting, bandwidth, web space, and email
• Host unlimited websites, email and domain names in UK data centre and resell everything under your brand name
• Windows or Linux OS

www.fasthosts.co.uk/reseller

Poundhosts – 20% off virtual servers

• Full administrator, remote desktop access
• Provides both dedicated and virtual servers, and latest Windows server 2008 bringing cost of hosting on windows the same as renting a Linux box
• From £24 per month

The resellers receive a special offer for 20% discount on services, for the life of the order. The discount code is PHCustVS which can be entered at the order stage.

www.poundhost.com

Heart – Host unlimited domains and web sites

• Unlimited web space, data transfer, mail boxes, mysql, ftp accounts, sub domains, databases
• White label system, fully brandable
• £29.99 per month

www.heartinternet.co.uk

Streamline – 50% off most popular packages

• Unlimited webspace, bandwidth, mailboxes
• Includesecommerce web site builder
• £2.99 per month – normally £5.99

www.streamline.net

Which one is the best for you?

You decide. As a guide, you would be best going for dedicated hosting for high traffic sites, and for solid site security.

The extra money you pay for some of the larger hosts is for the quality of support and response to hardware issues at their datacentres.

If you are just running small static sites or personal projects some of the smaller hosts and the smaller costs will be adequate.

In my opinion Poundhost has probably the best value for money on offering dedicated and scalable cloud based (virtual) servers which are very flexible in the features you can add and remove using a state of the art control panel / dashboard.

Disclaimer: I am not getting commission on this, you will see no affilliate codes here. I just want to give let you know the best offers out there at the moment, honest.

It has got to be this one from Opera.

Try and watch the video below and try not to laugh, the guy demo’ing these amazing face gestures tries hard not to

 Opera Face Gestures

The other pranks and spoofs this year are well documented on Techcrunch.