Is one.com a good hosting company. Where are there servers based. Will my UK customers get to my site fast? Should I go with a UK based provider in order to offer my customers the fastest access to my web pages? Who would you recommend and why. Thank you.

Short answer: one.com is not bad if your needs are very basic, and if you don't plan on custom coding or advanced services.

Here is a realistic appraisal. I am a reseller of hosting myself, a web designer and a former university engineer:

one.com offers services a bit better than some of the free services -

I did a lookup of the addresses they have available: they have several servers, and most are in Denmark.

They don't offer cpanel or Fantastico, which are well worth the while - if you have heard of them.

Their control panel is very primative by comparison, and it's main advantage is to allow you to quickly build a site from templates.

Lycos offers a similar service, at an even lower rate -

and Lycos has PHP5 (you can choose 4 or 5) as well as a mysql databases...

I am certain Yahoo/geocities has a similar offering, just to be fair.

Let me tell you, from what I have seen of Blue Host, and the number of Hackers they have hosted, I would prefer one.com,

but I think that Lycos is a much, much better service -

especially their rates for domain names, which are much lower than one.com.