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Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

godofthedevil — Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:55 pm

Author: godofthedevil

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:55 pm

i signed up with 1and1 for my ikkle linux shop, found out that it supports php but not mySQL, that kinda annoying when i wanted to make a forum so i had to sign up with someone who did both.. and i didnt want to spend extra on the business account.. other then that it seems ok

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

nordle — Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:55 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:55 pm

I use positive-internet, to be honest they are a bit pricey, but the only hosting company who promised not to delete any pop3 emails no matter how old they were (1+1 had something daft like 1mth, but please dont take my word on that)

Another thing I like about positive is their attitude, email them and within a couple of hours you've got a non-standard responce email, chatty, but efficient and knowledgeable.
http://www.positive-internet.com/zhosting.html

They hosted the record breaking podcast from Ricky Gervais too as mentioned on the homepage
http://www.positive-internet.co.uk/

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

A-Wing — Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:27 pm

Author: A-Wing

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:27 pm

I did have a 1&1 account a long time ago, wasn't happy. I did have a server with memset, they managed to bugger it up and charge me for the privilage so I left them and now have a server with Webfusion (PIPEX hosting) which so far I have had no problem with.

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

crispibits — Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:49 pm

Author: crispibits

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:49 pm

Yes, dear.
Anyway, wyliecoyote, thanks for that. I seem to have come across a few detrimental comments about 1&1 recently - which isn't terribly surprising, as they are a big company, so not *everyone's* goign to be happy. Whilst doing some dredging though I cam across unitedhosting.co.uk. They seem to be quite good, cheap and friendly. They also have an open forum which is re-assuring. I'll have a closer look and try and make up my mind...

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

1slipperyfish — Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:05 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:05 pm

Quote:

Damn, I knew I shouldn't have got 1sf involved in one of my posts. One mention of him, and everyone piles in. Haven't you lot got homes to go to?

yeah it's ace just like pcplus was like untill i finally wore them down except rhakios but he likes the attention
paul

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

wyliecoyoteuk — Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:04 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:04 pm

We use I&1 for our site hosting, support is good, they offer a Linux option, and our site uses LAMP.
If you go for thr professional package, you can have as many .co.uk domains as you like, up to 100, I think.
They also offer antivirus and spam filtering on mailboxes, which so far seems to work well. We've been with them 2 or 3 years now

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

crispibits — Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:32 am

Author: crispibits

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:32 am

Damn, I knew I shouldn't have got 1sf involved in one of my posts. One mention of him, and everyone piles in. Haven't you lot got homes to go to? Oh well, seeing as you're here, can anyone else recommend a hosting company? I'm looking for the ability to host more than one site, plus the usual LAMP stuff. I'd rather go for a larger company, as I've had my fill of one-man band resellers...

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

shifty_ben — Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:01 am

Author: shifty_ben

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:01 am

Lol I like that under hobbies you have put asking questions in forums
dunno if u wnat constructive critiscism or not but im gonna give it neways

your link to lxf isnt a link, just text.

other than that nice site

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

nelz — Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:30 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:30 am

Does anyone else find the "please read thoroughly" comment somewhat ironic?

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

pins — Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:57 pm

Author: pins

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:57 pm

oi, 1sf, wheres the link to the lxf site on your page?

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

Rhakios — Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:55 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:55 pm

Quote:

If you have any similar interssts i would likle to hear form you.

Good to see he's keeping up to his usual high standards of spelling.

Plus, see your pm from me 1sf!

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

crispibits — Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:02 pm

Author: crispibits

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:02 pm

Anyway, it looks like you've got www.1slipperyfish.co.uk up and running anyway...

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

crispibits — Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:58 pm

Author: crispibits

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:58 pm

Try ftp'ing to your site. Can you either see an index.html, index.php or index.htm or even (aagh) an index.asp file there? If not, can you see a directory labelled 'public_html', or 'www' or something, and if so what's inside it? If you find an index.* file there, try copying it away, then replacing it with one crafted lovingly in vi, or - given the cruel comments by others, one written in notepad...

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

1slipperyfish — Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:48 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:48 pm

when i signed up (on the cheapest one) i planned to write it myself but when i started i had to use templates etc, which was more than a bit gay perhaps you're looking at a different package or they have changed it i will look and see
paul

Re: Anyone here use 1&1 for hosting?

crispibits — Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:24 pm

Author: crispibits

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:24 pm

Hang on 1sf, if it's got an ftp account you don't need to use wysiwyg, you just ftp your files to the site. The fact that even the cheapest includes PHP 3,4,& 5, SSI and Multi site hosting suggests that it's not just for numpties. I'd be going for something biggger anyway, 'coz I want mySQL as well...