1and1 rip off !

bridiej

user1234 wrote:

1and1.com accounts are hosted in the USA.

1and1.co.uk accounts are hosted in Europe (more expensive bandwidth, labour and equipment costs).

That's like saying why is tap water more expensive in the UK than in America?!

HOWEVER, if you had said why is 1and1.de (i.e. the German site) €4.99 then your argument of rip-off Britain is correct since those are the same as the UK accounts.

Interesting, so can we in the UK use the German site (assuming we can read German of course......!)?

durain

defo a rip off in the UK! no wonder 1and1.com wont let anyone else register with them except US and Canada residents!

meclive

NellyLock wrote:

something that good that you would like to share with us all?!

I would if i could but under the forum rules i couldn't, check out the referrers forum if your bothered

gibby

1 & 1 - dont use them

the customer service is very poor

I set up a site for £90 and although they promised the software would do the job - it didnt and they wanted to upgrade me to a bigger package

after 6 months of hell - they somehow deleted the entire site - no apology - but hours on an 0870 number - big queues etc

they did refund the money after several complaints and we lost thousands in biz

we still have domains which they dont like moving to other firms and make it very difficult to do so.

the seem to forget to invoice us and then we find the whole group of domains is frozen - we then call the 0870 scam no to find out the payment has not been taken - but they ahve the card details and no invoice was generated

we are then inundated with surveys on service

for cheap domains and no hassel try

https://www.123-reg.co.uk

for the best web hosts at 10% of 171 prices and 200% service

http://www.penguin-uk.com/

a firm I enjoy doing biz with - and if your crap at web stuff the staff are so great and show you - or do it for you


Gibby

terrymats

I've been registering uk domain names with them http://www.me2uweb.com. I've always had my own dedicated server, so I'm not aware of the space and bandwidth you get. But they always reply back to emails quickly. Sometimes within 5 minutes. domain £5/pa & hosting £21/pa

Cheers
Terry

GaryS

Is the domain for personal or business use, check out Freenetname who provide a domain name which can be as little as £20.00 per year (sign up for webmail service only) or they also provide quite competitive Broadband services.
Reasonable webspace is provided, with full ftp facilities, etc.
No problems in over 4 years of use, both as an ISP and webmail only.

meclive

terrymats wrote:

I've been registering uk domain names with them http://www.me2uweb.com. I've always had my own dedicated server, so I'm not aware of the space and bandwidth you get. But they always reply back to emails quickly. Sometimes within 5 minutes. domain £5/pa & hosting £21/pa

Cheers
Terry

"All prices shown on our site are exclusive of VAT @ 17.5%"

terrymats

lolz. did i miss that part? i mean actually?

lellie

I always use a .co.uk and .com.. but host in america..

I host with a small private company called apis networks. http://www.apisnetworks.com - they're very reliable and I love them!

terrymats

Just in case anyone wants a good dedicated server, you can get a neat 2003 standard edition for around £630. Its at ipowerweb.com

Cheers