I am starting to do some real web designing for people and at the moment the sites are with various hosts. I was wondering of anybody knew of a good cost effective host (with PHP, MySQL etc.) and/or domain name supplier?
Consider where they are hosted before signing up, the vast majority are in the US, which increases latency, but for just web stuff, it shouldn't really matter to most.
If you had enough clients (would only need ~10) you could organise a dedicated box for the hosting, then if you end up with many more clients you could actually profit. I know someone who'd do the admin for you for a small fee.
Other than that, you're probably not going to find too much help here, since few of us require paid hosting since we're UGBox sponsors.