[ale] 1and1 hosting

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 03/13/2012 11:19 AM, Brian Stanaland wrote:
> That's entirely possible. I was on their "three years free" plan when
> they first started in the US. When that time was up the Windows plan was
> about half the price of the Linux plan. I just looked and the two plans
> are the same price now. My current payment cycle is close to being up
> and I'm seriously considering moving everything to another provider.

I am too, although, I moved a domain about a year ago and it was the 
biggest pain in the a$$.  They're 'automated' domain moving process was 
convoluted and broken.

>
> --Brian
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:40 AM, mike at trausch.us
> <mailto:mike at trausch.us> <mike at trausch.us <mailto:mike at trausch.us>> wrote:
>
>     On 03/13/2012 10:06 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>      > Just got a message regarding my hosting package.  Thought the
>     list might
>      > find this interesting:
>      >
>      > What will improve?
>      > =============================
>      > Apart from better performance and more security, the migration
>      > to a Linux operating environment (based on Debian Squeeze/6.0)
>      > specifically adapted to the needs of 1&1 and its customers...
>
>     Wasn't 1&1 one of the providers that Microsoft gave a huge payout to
>     some years back if they would host a lot of Windows stuff in their
>     business?  I seem to recall some sort of deal where Microsoft paid
>     hosting providers a lot of money to host Windows stuff (enough that
>     everything that the provider charged was pure profit, because if memory
>     serves, Microsoft provided the hardware _and_ the software _and_ money
>     on the side... but I could be wrong).
>
>             --- Mike
>
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Until later, Geoffrey

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