BT have just announced that, for security reasons, they are now preventing BT Yahoo! Broadband users from sending emails from software such as Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird, when the “From” email address is not a BT Yahoo! email address or a “validated alternative email address”. Last month, Sky stopped the use of their SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) servers to send emails.

Both of these changes have meant that many Sky and BT Yahoo! broadband users have been unable to send email until they change their SMTP settings, or in the case of BT Yahoo! customers, go through a process of validating their email address.

We’d like to take this opportunity to remind customers that Fasthosts provides a useful ”Roaming SMTP” feature with our Advanced and Microsoft Exchange mailboxes.

Fasthosts Roaming SMTP enables you to send email using your PC software, regardless of your broadband provider (so it’s great for laptop users!). If your broadband provider stops the use of their SMTP servers, you won’t be affected if you have a Fasthosts Advanced or Exchange mailbox using our SMTP settings.

Standard POP3 mailboxes can be upgraded to Advanced mailboxes easily (and instantly!) using Fasthosts’ award-winning control panel. New Advanced and Exchange mailboxes can added to any Fasthosts web hosting or email hosting package.

Find out more about the range of mailboxes we offer, and read our email software setup guides for more details on using our SMTP servers.

Experience the Fasthosts advantage
Some big-name email and web hosting providers don’t provide their own SMTP servers. Their customers have no choice but to use the SMTP servers provided by their broadband provider (which makes things a bit tricky for some BT and Sky broadband users now). Fasthosts provides a business-grade email hosting infrastructure with SMTP plus advanced virus & spam protection, from as little as £1.25pm!
Get up and running with Fasthosts email today

You can now get Microsoft Office 2007 for your PC from only £4.99 per month, from Fasthosts, including popular software packages like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Manageable monthly price - with no contract ties
Simply sign up for the service and download Microsoft Office 2007 directly to your PC for a manageable monthly price - no need to buy the boxed product, saving hundreds of pounds in up-front costs. There’s no minimum contract, giving you the freedom to use the software on a month-by-month basis without further obligation.
 

No need for CDs or the boxed product
Streamed directly to your PC, you have access to fully functioning software and any additional features or updates (including security updates) will be automatically installed - including the latest version of the software. So when Office 2009 is released, you can have that streamed to your PC at no extra cost!

Find out more about this great new service
Existing Fasthosts customers - add MS Office 2007 in your control panel today!

Buy any new Windows dedicated server and you’ll be eligible for £30 cashback! Plus, choose a Windows DS650 or DS850 dedicated server and you’ll also receive a copy of the powerful MS Money software free (While stocks last)!

Our range of powerful servers all feature Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processors as standard and prices start from just £49 for Linux based servers and only £59 for Windows based servers - making them incredible value for money.

If you are looking to increase the power of your current dedicated server or considering an additional server, now is an excellent time to look at our new range - and with £30 cashback on every new Windows server they just got even better value for money.

Each server is located at Fasthosts’ modern and secure data centre. You don’t need to worry about allocating floor space within your own environment and our dedicated team will continue to ensure your server is kept current with the latest updates to the operating system.

See the benefits for yourself at www.fasthosts.co.uk/dedicatedservers

Every month, visitors to the Web Host Directory industry portal, vote for the Top Web Hosts in each in number of categories. At the end of each month, the awards panel visit the top voted Web Hosts in each category, and determine who are most worthy of the awards.

Fasthosts won a raft of Web Host Directory awards in 2007, and we’d like your help to secure the top-spots again through 2008. So, if you’re happy with Fasthosts services, please vote for us by clicking the Web Hosting Directory badge below. Thank you!

Fasthosts.co.uk has just been awarded a Hitwise Top 10 spot for the quarter ending October - December 2007,  in the Computers and Internet, Hosting and Domain registration industry. The Hitwise Top 10 Award recognises leading websites from over 160 industry sectors.

We are pleased to announce that we now offer the 2.13 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor - which replaces the 1.86Ghz we previously offered. The DS450 Server offers great features, and at only £20pm more than the entry level DS250 it is also fantastic value for money.
Learn more about the DS450

Did you know? We sold our first dedicated nearly 7 years ago, in April 2001. It used an Intel® Celeron™ 533MHz processor with 128MB memory and a 10GB Hard drive. Today, our DS850 has an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.66GHz processor, 3GB of RAM and 1TB of storage!
See our complete range of dedicated servers

Get business-class email anytime, anywhere, with Microsoft Exchange - half price for 3 months and starting from just £4.99. 

Simply sign up for a new Exchange or Exchange Business package and get all the great benefits of professional email including access to email, calendars, tasks and contacts - and have all of this delivered to your mobile device in real-time. The service is easy to set up and maintain, and like all other Fasthosts products, enjoys 24/7 UK based support.
 

Half price for 3 months!
Take advantage of this great offer by getting yourself professional and easy to use email - keeping the latest information at your fingertips wherever you are.

• Access via your PC, any internet enabled computer or on your mobile device
• Free Microsoft Outlook software
• Anti spam and anti virus security
• Share Contacts, folders and calendars with colleagues
• Ample storage of 2GB with each mailbox
• Manageable monthly payments - from only £4.99
• No technical resource needed to manage the service

Hurry - this is a limited time offer, half price Exchange for 3 months from just £4.99. Sign up now by logging on to your control panel or to find out more at www.fasthosts.co.uk/exchange/

We are pleased to announce that for a limited time all new shared web hosting packages will be offered absolutely free for the first month.

Sign up for a new Home, Developer or Business web hosting package and get it absolutely free and without obligation for the first month. Each of our packages offers features that are essential for any website including unlimited website traffic, free instant online activation and 24/7 UK based support.

Try now without obligation for the first month by logging on to your control panel or find out more at www.fasthosts.co.uk/hosting

We’ve redesigned the reseller support website and created a resource centre, providing everything to get the most out of reseller hosting. New features include a training / welcome centre, partner support links and a new marketing materials section. The portal will be updated regularly, adding value to the reseller account with useful tools and announcements.

The new reseller portal includes the following new tools:

White-label guides
Enhance your support with our new range of ready-made user guides. 

Marketing materials
Includes a comprehensive Exchange email sales toolkit from Microsoft.

Microsoft WebSmart
4-part training program designed to help you get the most out of your web hosting.

Money-making tips
Ideas to create profitable hosting packages to increase your bottom-line.