Heh. Just spotted another one; seems timely. Remember to take all these quotes with a grain of salt; these are the truly discontented.
>I'm just about to move to [] from 1and1 (who are awful btw, >please anyone reading this do not even consider 1and1, even if they >offer you lifetime hosting for free!!!!!). But a nearby thread gives them a better take: >I wouldn't recommend 1and1's hosting, but their domain registration is >both inexpensive and fully (including EPP auth codes) under control of >the domain owner which is also reflected in all whois lookups. Which actually touches on a point I was making earlier. Many people don't care to have to fool with things like "EPP auth codes" and might be a lot better off with a different solution other than their own website. Oh, btw, some other hosts to avoid that were mentioned (but not nearly as often as 1and1): Bluehost, Ipower, Streamline.net, ANRHost, Jumpline, Surfspeedy, Vodahost, IXwebhosting, and oddly, *any* host outside of the USA. >I personally stick to North American datacenters because the vast >majority of my visitors are here and I want to minimize latency. I've >read from more than a few sources that the hosting prices in Europe >and elsewhere tend to be higher, and that the datacenters and network >backbones elsewhere aren't as robust as they are in the North American >Tier IV spaces. >I know many Europeans choose hosting over here because the better >infrastructure outweighs the latency hit. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
