1&1 Hosting - Any good?

[Alex offline]

(Sorry Erynn, but it's cheaper. No $97 for you. But I was thinking about it for a moment or two.)

Anyway... I'm currently using a paid form of Yahoo! GeoCities for hosting. I'm shelling out $6.95/month for it, and not getting a lot - 25 MBs storage, 2 GB transfer/month, no advanced scripting or databases. I'm considering a switch to a 1&1 Home plan, which is $2 less, 9,775 MB more storage, 498 GB more bandwidth, PHP/Perl/Python support, e-mail accounts, and MySQL databases. Oh, and 2 free top-level domains of my choosing instead of "geocities.com/neo14789".

My question is, has anyone heard anything about 1&1 to yay/nay this? If not, I'd go for it (cheaper and FAR better!), but I thought I'd check.

[MalikDrako offline]

sounds good, you might also want to try zeeblo if you dont need that much space and bandwidth, 100mb storage, 2gb transfer/month, free (could have changed since I last checked)

[Alex offline]

Hmm... Not a bad idea, but I'll stick with this... for one thing, I want to get AWAY from the whole "structured domain" thing.

Anyone want to donate a second opinion?

[Chad Rains offline]

I use onthespothosting.com myself. I actually got a deal they had this past summer where I got a years worth of hosting for something like $20 for the whole year. Ive got 1GB of space and something like 60GB of monthly bandiwdth as well as various common ammenities like a number of domains/subdomains/email accounts/mysql db's/etc. along with cpanel access. Other than a few initial hiccups and some security constraints (one of my biggest miff's, but not so much anymore is they dont allow script access to outside resources on ports other than port 80 I think. for example, I had a script for my radio website that grabbed stats from my server here at home which runs on port 9000. wouldnt work until I explained the situation and they opened it up for me), everything has been smooth so far.

[Star Way]

Lol, I had completely forgotten you were thinking about DH.

Well, I believe this will probably serve as a better plan for you. There's no reason why you should pay more and get more if you're not even going to use it all. DH is really more for larger sites that need lots of space.

Anyway, good luck! (And be sure to read ALL the fine print, trust me....)

[Chad Rains offline]

I remember that 1&1 had some pretty bad rep when they first started. something with them unknowingly charging for whatever stupid reason after their little initial free trial or something along those lines. Haven't really heard nothing past that so I cant really give much of a good opinion on them. Only thing I can say is there are better deals out there if you look around.

Ill see if I can find my old host around. I remember I was paying something like a few bucks a month for what I've got now.

[Alex offline]

I signed up today. I'll let you know if anything of interest goes up (in another thread).

Lockage requested.