Experience of 1&1?

Hi,

I'm looking for a new host - 1&1 seem to be the market leader. Does anyone
have any experience if using 1&1? I used FastHosts when they first started
up and got badly burned (although they seem to be better now, some 3 years
on).

Thanks
-----------------------------------------
Rae MacLeman
info@[remove]cobwebbery.co.uk
Cobwebbery Web Design

While sitting in a puddle webdev scribbled in the mud:

> Does anyone
> have any experience if using 1&1?

Been good for me. never had need to try their tech service so can't comment
on that part.

--
D?
http://wipkip.biz just to raise my PR

"Duende" <usenet@wipkip.biz> wrote in message
news:Xns95DFE734CE46Fhttpwipkipbiz@130.133.1.4...
> While sitting in a puddle webdev scribbled in the mud:
>
> > Does anyone
> > have any experience if using 1&1?
>
> Been good for me. never had need to try their tech service so can't
comment
> on that part.
>
> --
> D?
> http://wipkip.biz just to raise my PR

Thank - no news is good news ;0)

webdev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a new host - 1&1 seem to be the market leader. Does anyone
> have any experience if using 1&1? I used FastHosts when they first started
> up and got badly burned (although they seem to be better now, some 3 years
> on).
>
> Thanks
> -----------------------------------------
> Rae MacLeman
> info@[remove]cobwebbery.co.uk
> Cobwebbery Web Design

1&1
Market Leader ?
I use them for domain name reg - I like them ...


FastHosts: Ask Charles Sweeney about recent experiences with FastHosts ...

"webdev" <someone@microsofdt.com> wrote in message
news:1105857029.20823.0@nnrp-t71-02.news.clara.net...
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a new host - 1&1 seem to be the market leader. Does anyone
> have any experience if using 1&1? I used FastHosts when they first started
> up and got badly burned (although they seem to be better now, some 3 years
> on).
>

Their support department is absolutely and completely useless!

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 0626 -0000, "webdev" <someone@microsofdt.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for a new host - 1&1 seem to be the market leader. Does anyone
>have any experience if using 1&1? I used FastHosts when they first started
>up and got badly burned (although they seem to be better now, some 3 years
>on).


I have the free 3 year professional trial they gave out last year.
Its not bad. I did email support once because I changed the htaccess
for customized error pages, but *.cgi pages were still going to the
default.

The support was useless, but I don't know if it is because I have a
free account. I had to email the same support tech (i think) a number
of times before he understood the problem, and the response was
something like "no" you can't change it/we can't fix it.

The admin panel is slow for my tastes, but the service itself is fast,
no downtime issues for me. I also was able to download a large file
from my website and it pushed my home DSL connection to the speed
limit (1.3Mbps), it did that every time I tried it. Thus they don't
seem to "overshare" the servers.

They offer SSH/telnet, which is great, and ftp and such..

Will I pay for it when my free trial is up? Yes, most likely I
will, depending on the price when the time arrives.

Randall Fox