Free web hosting for 3 years

I'm told it's legit

I've been told by folks in the UK that this company is the largest web hosting provider in Europe (which explains how they can give away so much web space) and are somewhat highly regarded. Apparently, they are making the move to the US and are just trying to drum up business. I believe their hope is that mostly businesses will sign up, get a site going and in three years be happy enough to want to start paying for it.

I signed up and so far so good.
 
Good, Cheap Domains?

Can anyone reccommend a good, cheap domain name service? Signed up for the 3 years free and now would like a domain name for under $10/yr through someone other than 1&1. Thanks! :)
 
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ksocia said:
Can anyone reccommend a good, cheap domain name service? Signed up for the 3 years free and now would like a domain name for under $10/yr through someone other than 1&1. Thanks! :)
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Make sure you read the fine print on this, because it looks like they charge you $5.99 even if you transfer another domain name. So you might as well save the money and get one from them for only $5.99.

Atleast thats how I read it.
 
Re: Re: Good, Cheap Domains?

Choochoojr said:
Make sure you read the fine print on this, because it looks like they charge you $5.99 even if you transfer another domain name. So you might as well save the money and get one from them for only $5.99.

Atleast thats how I read it.
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I wasn't changed anything. Remember, that a domain transfer is not the same thing as pointing your domain manually. I recommend that you pick up a domain from godaddy.com. This way you have direct control over it. Then you can point your domain to 1and1.com's domain name servers.
 
I registered a domain with 1and1 for $5.99, godaddy is $8.95. I guess I don't understand where the savings is. Thats why my son is the one messing around with it. :p
 
have anyone set up the chart room yet?

This is too good to ve true!
 
THIS IS LEGIT!

I've transferred the domain for my band's homepage about
a month ago and it's all been working real good. No charges
and it's working real well. Who knows how long this will go on
for... but as far as I am concerned... This is FREE and it's legit!

http://www.TimeAtLast.com
 
question

let's say i already have a website up and running with another hosting company....they charge $150 per month to maintain it and what not, if i switch to 1and1.com can i transfer all the contents of my website there? would any viewers notice a difference???
thanks.
 
I'd say if you could upload all the original content into the 1&1 space, and point your domain name over, you should be fine. Just be sure your other company doesn't have a fine for early termination or whatnot. If you manually point your domain name to the 1and1 webspace, you don't get charged $5.99 for transferring. Good luck :)
 
Signed up about a week ago, got no E-mail replay
How long does it take?


Gary
 
Did you get the call with the pin number?
 
No Reply from E-mail

Gary, you should have gotten it within a couple of hours at the most. You need to try again.
 
Definitely Legit

When I saw this post, I checked out their website and googled them. I read some stuff about 1&1 being a foreign based company and fairly large, yada yada yada.

Their website claims that they spurned their advertising agency and with the money saved instead opted to provide three years free service to build a large customer base.

Well to make a long story short, I emailed the link to a few friends that I thought might be interested in their offer. One of my friends runs his own marketing research firm and Manhattan and called me as soon as he got my email. He wanted to know how I had heard about 1&1. I responded that I found it on one of the coupon sites I surfed and thought it sounded legit, besides there was little risk since you didn't have to input a credit card.

Well, apparently it is a small world afterall. Quite a while ago, he was hired by a large advertising agency that he does work for to conduct focus groups for a foreign hosting company that he had never heard of before, that firm being 1&1. He conducted the focus groups but then learned that the advertising agency didn't get the job. He then never heard anything about it again until he got my email.

Apparently they are legit. I myself rarely post here. I have no stake or interest in 1&1 and haven't even switched my hosting over. I don't pay much now and don't feel like the hassle of moving everything over. HOWEVER, if you happen to need hosting you should know that at least according to what I have learned, they are legit and I wanted you to know it.

LMP


P.S. - I love this site. I've been lurking here for over a year and have found countless deals. Spoofee is by far the best coupon site. Thanks guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Well, just so that you all know...their support after the signup is horrible so far - at least for me.

I had my account set up and had my domain pointed to their nameservers. However, I keep on getting emails saying that I haven't set up my dns servers at my registrar to point to their nameservers and that they'll disable my domain name on their server if I don't get it setup eventhough I did so and that I was accessing their server using my domain name. I tried emailing them and also used their contact form to try and resolve this but to no avail. My account is active but I can't use my domain name on their server and to this date I still haven't received any other email from them and it's been about a month already.

I guess if you register your domain name with them then you won't have that problem but I didn't want them to have my credit information and they don't have Paypal set up (at least not to my knowledge).

Also, since I'm used to using the Cpanel I find that their overall control panel hard to use....but that's just my opinion.


I hope you others aren't having the same issues I have......good luck!
 
boytroy88 said:
Well, just so that you all know...their support after the signup is horrible so far - at least for me.

I had my account set up and had my domain pointed to their nameservers. However, I keep on getting emails saying that I haven't set up my dns servers .....

Also, since I'm used to using the Cpanel I find that their overall control panel hard to use....but that's just my opinion.
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I just pointed a Register.com domain to their nameserver tonight and will see how the transfer goes...

On an unrelated matter I sent them two copies of the same email and have also gotten no response as the OP reports...

Their cpanel is a little limited, but functional. Its just fine for a novice web designer. You will want a more robust HTML editor eventually though.

I dl'd the free copy of NetObjects Fusion which they so thoughtfully provide. I've always wanted to get my hands on a copy of this editor/designer but did not want to spend the money- a little pricey.

Do yourself a favor and get NetObjects while its free. It is a terrific piece of code. ( The also give you several other free pieces of software...lots of nice stuff)

The cpanel has a huge number of pre built style sheets many of which are real nice, beautiful work. I wonder if I can import one of their style sheets into NetObjects Fusion?
 
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