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musanman

To those of you who got the free 3 year professional package from 1and1 hosting, they expired today!

I thought a lot of you might like to know, since my credit card was expired and the account got locked. I updated the info and gave them a call and we're back in business...I think it's about $46 a year plus if you have a domain.

Just an FYI.

Monoxide

Hm.

Are they going to charge you to continue the service if your credit card is still active?

If so...shit.

musanman

Monoxide wrote: »

Hm.

Are they going to charge you to continue the service if your credit card is still active?

If so...shit.

Yes, $23 for 6 months was the first charge I got. That's the main reason I thought you guys would like to know heh.

Telemachus

I was bright enough to forget about the expiration for my Amazon Prime trial. $80 for a year's free shipping. :roll:

schmads

About a year ago I upgraded to one of their "professional" packages that they had on sale ($9.99/mo), and I'm pretty happy with it. They're not perfect, but I'm already set up there and have all of my stuff working, and my domains registered, so I don't want to change. I have absolutely absurd amounts of space and data transfer (for my uses, anyways), so I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm not a shill, and they're not perfect, though. There are some memory restrictions that muck with my gallery so I can't rotate the original 10MP images from my camera, and I'm sure other restrictions I haven't hit. It also seems like it's kinda slow sometimes, although my internet has been funky lately (RoadRunner in Austin), so it may be not their fault.

I dislike signing up for "free until" things, because they count on people not remembering to cancel it, and they can certainly count on me. At least with a paid package, I know what I'm getting and I should be getting it indefinitely.

ArcSyn

I just use the $2/month package. It's insane cheap and is plenty for what I need it for.
The fact I get a domain with it just made it all the better.

Monoxide

I didn't get charged, sweet. I think the card I used for this is expired.

I've been using Surpass Hosting for a couple of years, now. Their current shared hosting offer is 200gb storage and 2000gb bandwidth for $6.95/mo. Comes with CPanel, Fantastico, unlimited SQL databases, unlimited email, and some other fluff. I considered switching to another host that offered Ruby on Rails and Python (django) support for the same price, but it was only the same price if I paid for it yearly, so I decided to skip on that. Other than that, they've been really fantastic.

Recoil42

Yep, I'm on surpass, they're pretty great. I'm actually on the same plan 200gb/2tb(bandwidth), got it for a full year for only a buck. Can't beat that.

Monoxide

Recoil42 wrote: »

Yep, I'm on surpass, they're pretty great. I'm actually on the same plan 200gb/2tb(bandwidth), got it for a full year for only a buck. Can't beat that.

Yeah, I missed out on that deal since they don't send offers like that to their existing customers. Bastards. I didn't find out until a week after the promotion ended.

Snowcone

schmads wrote: »

About a year ago I upgraded to one of their "professional" packages that they had on sale ($9.99/mo), and I'm pretty happy with it. They're not perfect, but I'm already set up there and have all of my stuff working, and my domains registered, so I don't want to change. I have absolutely absurd amounts of space and data transfer (for my uses, anyways), so I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm not a shill, and they're not perfect, though. There are some memory restrictions that muck with my gallery so I can't rotate the original 10MP images from my camera, and I'm sure other restrictions I haven't hit. It also seems like it's kinda slow sometimes, although my internet has been funky lately (RoadRunner in Austin), so it may be not their fault.

I dislike signing up for "free until" things, because they count on people not remembering to cancel it, and they can certainly count on me. At least with a paid package, I know what I'm getting and I should be getting it indefinitely.

I had all my sites hosted there for a while with a Pro package. I had to drop them because someone on the server would get slammed with traffic and everyone else got 500 errors. It happened all day long and their support team had no idea what the error message was or how to resolve it. After weeks and weeks of it, I dropped them and moved to Surpass.

The only thing I miss about 1&1 is the ability to set the home directory for each domain. I hate the way cpanel requires that additional domains are created as subdomains first and then bound to the addon domain. It mucks up my directory structure.

Snowcone

I got the $1 surpass plan too. I'm digging everything about them at this point in time.

Monoxide

Snowcone wrote: »

I got the $1 surpass plan too. I'm digging everything about them at this point in time.

Seriously, the only thing I could ever want from Surpass is RoR support. And I don't even write in Rails very often, nor would I really use it for anything worthwhile. It'd just be cool to have.

mausmalone

I was having some major issues with 1&1 throttling me back to 25 MySQL queries per second ... which wouldn't be a problem if my site didn't run off a CMS that uses a dozen or so queries to generate the menu. My brother and I (we share a single account) bitched and whined and eventually had to write a PHP page that would use microtime to clock our MySQL throttling to convince them that there was any problem at all. They moved us to a new datacenter and everything's been cooking along at a smooth 2,700 queries/second since then.

For reference, this page (http://mpierce.pie2k.com/pages/39.php) used to take over a full minute to generate. Now it takes 0.2 seconds.

Nozz

I remember getting this deal 3 years ago from this forum. I've had videos posted on there for the entire time. Great site.