[Morpheus]

Am looking to register a few domains and host my vlog. 1and1.com seems to have the best deals by far, but I was wondering if I'm really getting what I pay for in cheap and crummy support.

Anyone have experience with it or other companies?

[chem]

Go with godaddy, it's got fair deals and the cutomer support is actually not that bad. I knew a guy who had 1and1 and the server he was on sucked. But I'm sure every company has a bad server here and there.

[Morpheus]

well by "not that bad" I hope you mean at least decent.

[chem]

They have helped me everytime I ran into trouble except once the guy was like "ugh... there isn't anything I can do... let me ask another guy." So he asks someone and the guy didn't know. So I was pretty upset and hung up and called back later and got a more inteligent individual.

Lol

[quelephant]

i used to be on 1&1 until they packed the shared server with so many sites my visitors received intermittent errors. I called 1&1 to complain and was told that there's nothing they can do at the present as my site requires high database usage. A few days later, the site went down for over 24 hours! i called again and was told that the server needing replacing.... they sorted this within a day and everything worked beautifully......... for about a week! the new server was now packed full of sites and the dreaded errors were back....... they eventually blamed my script...... saying it was poorly written!!
no apology, no refund!!
i switched hosting to hostway.co.uk within a week and found not a single problem - three months later i've had zero errors, which proved the errors were not caused by the script!!
i'd avoid 1&1 for shared hosting - it's worth paying that little bit more for the extra quality and peace of mind.

[utkarsh.s]

I've heard 1&1 is good ... but i register my domains with godaddy .. also theres an offer at netfirms.com/max .... shud check it out!

[Lex]

Originally Posted by utkarsh.s

I've heard 1&1 is good ... but i register my domains with godaddy .. also theres an offer at netfirms.com/max .... shud check it out!

Then you heard wrong.

1&1 is well known throughout the real domainers as a big no no. You should avoid these people there support is awful and thousands have had trouble with there hosting,domains and other services they provide.

I reccomend namecheap using the code EVENLOWER to save some cash

[simplegreen]

i use go daddy only. 9 bucks a domain i can afford for a supurb control panel and easy managment of over 80 domains...

[letsbeef]

I have been using 1and1.com for around a year, with a root server. I have had no real problems with it. It has been fairly solid performance wise, and quite economical.

[jdoc]

I find this to be a useful resource:

http://www.hostgatorreviews.com/sitemap

They have user reviews from all the major cheap hosting plans out there. As you can see, 1&1 is not viewed favourably.

[henderson]

a great sucsess!

[CP Mr Ofevaw]

GoDaddy is good for simple sites that won't get alot of traffic, and aren't looking for quick scalability. I use it to primarily to purchase domains and park them...

If you plan on getting lots of traffic or have a website that will make heavy database use, I would go with http://www.serverbeach.com