Are these kind of thing any good? Been looking around for one and seen a lot of ads
for this lot http://website.1and1.co.uk but don’t know anyone who’s used anything like this.

Cheers

What are you trying to achieve?

They’re crap.

If you know what you’re doing I can recommend http://www.EvoRack.com for a dedicated VPS. Cheap as chips and usually no problems.

Edit: Of course as soon as I put that up, I notice their server is down. #Fail

I use Fasthosts for my email and web hosting. Choice of Windows or Linux servers and very easy to install things like WordPress.

That said I think they are all much of a muchness (apart from 1and1 – they are crap).

What are you trying to achieve?

Is the important question.

Whether it is any good depends on what you expect from it.

First things first: Work out how much extra income you can make from a website. Spend LESS than this.

Rachel (who often wonders how she will ever be a successful web dev entrepreneur giving out advice like that 😉 )

Let me Google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=i+hate+1and1

It’s just a personal website but after reading tinribz’ comment I may have to re-think…
Also, Rachel, that seems the BEST advice 🙂