Checkout Brightbox, a UK based rails hosting company. They provide excellent value, scalable hosting solutions and their customer service setup is excellent.

Straub Ventures has now been added to the Wonderoa Portfolio. This is a work in progress, so keep an eye on straubventures.com.

Finally, BeatPoll has gone live, go take a look at BeatPoll.com. Try launching a poll for yourself and go promote your site or online profile.

BeatPoll is currently at the end of its rigorous testing schedule and will be live next week all being well. As an introduction, its a free, traffic-driving site - allowing pollsters to own the home page for 24 hrs.

First, very quick version of Straub Ventures has gone live…I say first and very quick, because the whole process has taken a week. More to follow, but go visit www.straubventures.com for a look.