On 4 April 2011 18:29, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Michael Jerger wrote: > >> last days I leased a virtual host at 1und1 (a german hoster). >> Unfortunately 1und1 found a new, creative way to limit the joy of using >> their VPH - they limit the number of operating-system processes to 256 >> processes in total. >> > > a) are you sure ? Since, commercially speaking, I can't imagine what > benefit they would get from this (as opposed to e.g. limiting the amount of > RAM or disk space), I tend to have a doubt. > > Doesn't surprise me at all. I've moved completely off 1and1; I found them an incredibly low-quality provider who quietly limited many areas of functionality. I've used Memset in the UK for the last 2 years and have so far been very impressed.
André, the commercial benefit to 1and1 is summarised in the following conversation: Techie: "We've run out of threads, and it'll take days to migrate our application off 1and1." Money person: "What can we do?" Techie: "Pay 1and1 more money for a bigger machine." Money person: "Erm... OK." - Peter
