For those who didn’t know yet, 1and1.com has launched a huge sales contest for their affiliates. They are giving away a trip for two to Jamaica, a big screen TV, a laptop computer, an iPhone and many other prizes.
As mentionned on GoogleLady’s blog, there have been some negative comments about 1and1 but there’s been also quite a few positive ones to.
It reminded me of my mechanic who was putting down one of its competitor saying that a lot of people complained about them. This competitor had like 100 times more customers than my mechanic so guess what? They probably had more unsatisfied customers but the fact that they are still in business today and that they are still the biggest business around shows that they must be doing something right. Chances are they have more satisfied customers too…
Anyway I’m gonna find out by myself. Yesterday I’ve signed up with 1and1.com and took the 1&1 Home hosting plan at $4.99 / month. It’s great cause you get 2 free domain names and the first 3 months of hosting are free. At first it does seem to work good but I’ll be able to tell more soon. I’m gonna move one of my clients’ website to my 1and1 hosting account. It’s not a critical website nor does it get huge traffic but still I’m confident I won’t run into any problems.
I’ll also be monitoring the web server which is hosting my account by using Zenoss or WhatsUp so I’ll be able to track any downtimes and see if they really have a 99% uptime.
In the meantime, feel free to share your experience with 1and1!
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