[ale] 1and1 hosting

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 03/13/2012 11:36 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> 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.

s/They're/Their/

>
>>
>> --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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