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!

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’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.

To mark the beginning of 2008, we are pleased to announce significant price cuts on the Fasthosts reseller account.

FREE Linux web hosting
We have now removed the £10pa fee for hosting websites on our Linux platform. Any new domains that added will now be free of charge and resellers will no longer be charged for existing Linux hosted websites.

FREE ASP scripting
We have also removed the £10pa ASP scripting fee for websites hosted on our Windows 2003 platform. This price cut also applies to new and existing websites in reseller accounts, enabling resellers to host dynamic websites on our Windows servers, at no extra cost.

FREE MySQL databases
The reseller account now includes five 150MB MySQL databases, worth £125pa.

We are pleased to announce that our new range of dedicated servers has landed!

Each of our servers is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo Processors and prices start from only £49 making them incredible value for money. Ideal to host your website or business application software, all our dedicated servers offer a secure environment for your hosting needs and provide:

• Cutting edge technology - every server is Intel Core 2 Duo
• Choice of 5 operating systems
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Full remote control
• Secure private network
• UK based expert technical support
• Easy to use control panel
• Fast set-up
• Secure UK data centre

Benefit from moving your hosting to dedicated servers now - there is no costly upfront hardware investment required making cash flow easy to manage. In addition, 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 also make sure your server is kept current with the latest updates to the operating system. We also ensure that the webserver hosting your site is 100% allocated to you – no need to share server memory or CPU resources with other websites.

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

Further to our recent recognition in the Web Host Directory monthly awards, Fasthosts has now also been named as the No.1 Windows Web Hosting provider for September 2007.

We continue to receive valuable feedback from our customers, and we’d like to thank everyone who has already voted for Fasthosts. The Web Host Directory awards take place each month, so it’s never too late to vote for us and provide your feedback on our service.

Following our recent post on 9 August asking our customers to vote for us in the Web Host Directory monthly awards, we’re pleased to announce that Fasthosts has been named as No.1 for Budget Web Hosting.

Due to the great feedback and the number of votes received from our customers, the team at Web Host Directory have awarded us the coveted No.1 position for the remainder of August and September 2007. We’d like to thank all our customers who have already voted for Fasthosts, and who have provided valuable feedback on our services.

 Vote for Fasthosts and give us your feedback

We’ve selected a few examples of customer feedback that has been sent to the
Web Host Directory team so far. You’ll find these in the comments section for this post.

We’re pleased to announce the introduction of CentOS 5, the latest version of the Community ENTerprise Operating System. Replacing the Fedora Core distribution for our Linux dedicated server range, CentOS has an active, growing user community and, unlike Fedora, benefits from long term support and essential security updates.

What’s more, we’ve also updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux to the latest version (v5).
Compare RHE 4 with RHE 5 features

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Ubuntu 6.06 on Fasthosts dedicated servers. Available across our full range of Linux dedicated servers, Ubuntu is already one of the world’s fastest growing operating systems.
“Ubuntu Server Edition - built on the solid foundation of Debian which is known for its robust server installations — has a strong heritage for reliable performance and predictable evolution.” Src: Ubuntu.com
So now there are even more great options to choose from when you buy a dedicated server from Fasthosts. Choose your preferred operating system - from Fedora Core 6, Red Hat Enterprise Server v4 and now Ubuntu 6.06. We also offer a complete range of Windows dedicated servers.

A number of our customers have commented that they have recently noticed a dramatic reduction in the number of spam emails they receive.

In May, we implemented the next phase of improvements as part of our commitment to combat spam. This has more than halved the amount of spam email received by our platform. Our new measures include further software development to improve identification of incoming spam and block at source. Plus we’re working closely with Spamhaus, one of the world’s leading anti-spam bodies to ‘clean’ incoming mail.