1and1.com Free Hosting

[OPaul]

This deal has popped up on a few threads but it's such a great deal I thought it should have a thread for itself. 1and1.com are offering free hosting for 3 years with no string attached.

500 MB web space

5,000 MB/month traffic

2002 extensions

5 FTP accounts

PHP3 & PHP4

MySQL

And much much more.

For more information on the promotion check here.

You can also register your domain with from for $5.99/year (less then godaddy.com).

This is the last day to sign up for free.

Edited January 21, 2004 by OPaul

[Liquid]

Sry paul but this has been posted like 3 months ago. But yah this is pretty great hosting. It was even featured in Maximum PC.

[GTX]

Nice :D

[OPaul]

I searched and didn't find any threads on it, just other threads where people asked for a good host and someone posted it.

[bLiZZaRd1284]

yea this is a sweet deal

[BxBoy]

Been using them since Day One. (Y)

[TruBD]

u should use them for the uptime sig scripts.

[BxBoy]

I used it as one of the cache servers..

[bangbang023 Veteran]

thanks, I had forgotten about this. Good thing to have an image host for the next few years. Hell, if I like it enough, I'll subscribe when the 3 years is up.

[kombolcha]

even though it's free you can't beat timdorr's 50gb bandwidth.

i'll keep my 1and1 as a backup

[BxBoy]

  Vice King said:

i'll keep my 1and1 as a backup

that's what i do.. right now i'm using it as an IMG host..

[benjeeeboy]

Yah, im using 1and1 as a host right now... seems pretty good. Ive had a few difficulties but they have all seemed to work themselves out to me doing something wrong.

[[DGS]]

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...0entry1424065

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When i first visited oneandone.co.uk website and seen the prices and the services they have i thought they are pretty good. so i joined them, registered 3 domains with them, of which one is a .co.uk one.

a few days later i purchased a webspace package with a different company, and i was sent my login details for my .co.uk domain etc, along with instructions saying that i need to contact my domain name registrar, in this case oneandone.co.uk to update my dns entries (nameserver).

when i called oneandone, i was told that they will simply not do it for .co.uk domains. specifically .co.uk domains ! i was told that "that's the reason they're so cheap" by their support rep. i told the rep that i wanted to cancel and he said "cancellation" is only possible for complete hosting packages, not for domain names, so i they won't give me any money back. i also asked them how long it would take to update the dns entries for, say, a .com.

the rep's response was "i don't know, we are not given any deadline. 1-2 days, maybe more, i wouldn't know".

now that is one horrible service, i advice anyone wishing to register a domain/buy webspace to avoid them at all costs. there are many good providers out there, and oneandone isn't one of them.

avoid at all costs

[OPaul]

Interesting, so their only ###### if you register a domain with them then? Any downsides to just using their webspace? Or adding a domain from godaddy and using 1and1.com as the namesever?

[MG-Cloud]

Thanks *so* much for reminding me.

I totally forgot about this ;)

[supernova_00]

well its free so can't bitch about it

[BxBoy]

  supernova_00 said:

well its free so can't bitch about it

:yes:

[MG-Cloud]

Quick question - I know you need a domain for this service.

I'm currently waiting on my activation email, but I was just wondering if you can host the dns for the domain elsewhere, and point the ips to 1and1's servers.

[aem4162]

i'm still waiting for the 2nd call :(

[supernova_00]

same here

[aem4162]

it's been around 45min.....guess i'll think about bed

[supernova_00]

yea got email!!!

[MG-Cloud]

There's supposed to be a second call?

From what I read, it was supposed to be an email. Uh oh. Hope my answering machine picked up.

EDIT: yup its an email

just got it :D

[aem4162]

you're right! i thought there was a 2nd call...my bad :blush:....i just got it!

[ring0]

i signed up for this back in november and i love it. the registration and page/site creation process took a day or two, but it's been running flawlessly ever since.