  johnnyboyct
join:2003-06-11 Newington, CT
·Cox HSI
| I HATE 1 and 1
Wow I hate these people. I got stuck with them at my newer job. Every time there is an issue getting into their hosting panel even after pasting a direct link, etc. They reply back with sorry, its your end. Ive got 3 people im paying good money to work on projects and we cant get into the panel to work on the db.
I have 3 consultants from all over, we are all working on their stuff from different places and we are all experienced devs. I really think we could track down the issue to being on our end or theirs. At one point they tested FTP and told me sorry its your end, when i was asking why the admin panel is down. I dont even think they read the emails
Ive been ignored about a dedicated server. Asked for pricing because the "business plan" is always screwing up. The phpmyadmin times out after 15 mins reguardless of activity.
JMHO Terrible service and customer service since ive gotten here, dont host with them. -- Connecticut Web Design and Development |
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  Mospaw I'm Vap-O-riffic Premium,Mod join:2001-01-08 Las Vegas, NV | They're merely OK when they work but when there's a problem they suck suck suck. 1&1 is the worst of the worst. |
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  oneandone33
@3menatwork.com | reply to johnnyboyct check this 1&1 horror story:
»serial-box.net/2008/06/1and1-suc···-notice/ |
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  Prismatic Premium join:2003-04-21 El Cajon, CA | I had 1and1 until I tried to let about 5 domain names expire.
Know what 1and1 did? They sent me to collections after they unsuccessfully charged my credit card. |
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  die1and1die
@rogers.com
| reply to johnnyboyct 1and1 is a curse. that post above that someone posted is from my blog. found this link through my webstats.
I can't understand how 1and1 is still a registrar and how ICANN has not revoked their privileges yet for violating all policies.
how can they snd someone to a collection agency for future payments? it specifically states in ICANN TOS that a registrar can NOT withhold a domain from you for future payment. They also can NOT force you to renew a domain name with them after it expires. if your domain expires and you want to transfer it they have to let you. |
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  Jameson 10-8 Premium join:2004-05-28 Fallbrook, CA clubs:  | reply to johnnyboyct Me too..the company I recently started doing IT for uses it for their email (soon to change) and it has been nothing but problems.. |
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  jayco437 Premium join:2001-08-11 Lincoln, NE
·Windstream
·AT&T Southwest
| reply to Prismatic They have auto-renew turned on by default. You have to login to a separate domain in order to cancel (cancel.1and1.com I think?) the auto-renew. Their entire admin/login/billing system is a PITA and a nightmare. The only good thing about them is their $7 domains with free privacy guard. Even their DNS management is some kind of hokey half-assed and even less featured tool. |
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  die1and1
@rogers.com
| having auto renew turned on is not a bad thing really. but the problem is that they cannot send people to a collection agency for future registration/renewals.
since my credit card expired when it was time to renew my domains they should NOT have renewed and been online for 5 months. they should have been turned off so I knew they did not renew.
Then .. even though it is a direct violation of ICANN policies and TOS, 1and1 refused to let me transfer my domains to another registrar until I paid their colletion agency. this was for money I did not yet owe them but had to pay in orer to transfer and since I dont have 500 years to argue back and forth with 1and1 I paid. which is what they bank on |
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  johnnyboyct
join:2003-06-11 Newington, CT
·Cox HSI
| reply to johnnyboyct Honestly, worst hosting company ever. I wish they would have a rep come to this thread and at least give some excuses, but I think all even their highest reps can do is give "heartfelt" apologies and escalate tickets. -- Connecticut Web Design and Development |
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  johnnyboyct
join:2003-06-11 Newington, CT
·Cox HSI
| reply to johnnyboyct I love being told theres nothing wrong, the normal laymen probobly marks this off as being them, but press the issue and they appologize. I called them on it becuase I had this happen 2 times in the same email thread and they still gave me the canned response. WORST HOSTING = 1 AND 1
Please accept out heartfelt apologies with regards to this issue. Our servers had encountered a minor glitch which affected the connectivity of our sites including admin.1and1.com. However, rest assured that our administrators are taking safe measures to ensure that an incident of this nature will not be able to happen again. Thank you so much for bearing with us.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
> Thank you for contacting us. > > As we checked your account everything is ok, try to log in to your > admin.1and1.com. > > If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact ------------------------------------ -- Connecticut Web Design and Development |
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  die1and1die
@rogers.com
| Here's another apology. for the effect ive taken out most of the text so you can see how many times joseph quinn apologized to me yet still never fixed the issue.
Thank you for contacting us.
I understand that youve been upset with our technical support team. This is something that I can only apologize for. This is an aspect of our service that were always trying to improve. This is why your feedback is so important to us. We can now look through and see where and if we made mistakes. Then, we can look into making sure that this doesnt happen again. Again, we can only apologize for this frustration that youve suffered. We will continue to work on this to serve you better.
I understand that there was a late fee attached on to your account. This is something that I can only apologize for. This is done through out automated system. We will send emails to the email address on the account explaining that there is a billing issue. However, if the outstanding balance isnt resolved after so long, the late fee is added to the account. There is nothing I can do about this situation here at this point. Again, this is something that I can only apologize for.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely, Joseph Quinn Customer Service 1&1 Internet
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  johnnyboyct
join:2003-06-11 Newington, CT | Amazing, what a mess. |
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 JoelC707
join:2002-07-09 Tucson, AZ clubs: | reply to die1and1die I agree, what a mess. Since they insisted on you paying for charges that had not yet come around I would have disputed the charge with the credit card company afterwards. IE pay them to get them to STFU then revoke it lol. |
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  johnnyboyct
join:2003-06-11 Newington, CT
·Cox HSI
| reply to johnnyboyct We are not able to provide any information due to security reasons. You may send an email to complaints@1and1.com if you have any suggestions or complaints. We sincerely apologize for any major inconvenience caused.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
1&1 Internet
> Can I please have a specific email for the manager of Customer Service? -- Connecticut Web Design and Development |
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  Mospaw I'm Vap-O-riffic Premium,Mod join:2001-01-08 Las Vegas, NV
·Cox HSI
·Embarq
Host: Road Warriors, Not.. All Things Macintosh Automotive
| said by 1&1 :
We sincerely apologize for any major inconvenience caused. Holy crap!
They're so lousy they only apologize for major inconvenience. I guess you simply get a thumb ot the nose for minor to medium inconvenience.
1&1 sucks. Plain and simple. How they stay in business is beyond me. They're the AOL of the hosting world. |
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 William Premium join:2007-09-22 Washougal, WA
| said by Mospaw :They're the AOL of the hosting world. My only response is =>  -- Got SKY: select pak, beam 101, Seattle gateway, linksys WRT54G router, 2 PC's running XP Pro. |
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  die1and1die
@rogers.com | reply to Mospaw hey... at least you got a "sincere" apology. all I got were a bunch of normal apologies, obviously not as meaningful! lol |
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  meister_sd Premium join:2006-01-29 La Mesa, CA
| reply to johnnyboyct I've had 1&1 for 4-5 years now. I first started with them when they had a crazy promotion of 3 years unlimited hosting for free. I had about 10 domains running (never really using them) and the only complaint is the slow backend. Now the promotion is over and I think I pay about $30 every 6 months and I still have the unlimited domain hosting. The most I had was about 15 domains in my account. Mostly I use it for personal hosting or dev work, so I don't have any experience of how it would work under a "real" website where there is a lot of traffic.
Except for being super slow at times in the backend, I can't really complain - especially since most of my time with them has been free. I even get one MySQL account, which I've used for testing. |
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  Dogfather Premium join:2007-12-26 Laguna Hills, CA
·Cox HSI
·Verizon FIOS
·Cox VOIP
·ViaTalk
·RoadRunner Cable
·MegaPath
·Verizon west (ex G..
·Time Warner VOIP
| I haven't had any problems either. I fled Surpass after one of a great many outages (they're having yet another one today) and went cheap with 1and1. I'm glad I switched. Of course it's only for low traffic hosting and email which is probably why I haven't had issues. |
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  geekamongus Real Slump Quality Premium,MVM join:2004-07-27 Asheville, NC
| reply to johnnyboyct I had a dedicated server with a good company, who unfortunately was bought by 1&1. Soon after, my server started having many problems. Their responses kept referring to my box as a legacy system, and the next thing I knew, I was pushed into moving to a new, spendier machine.
So, on that new server, I ordered external backups. They set this up and told me everything was golden. Until one day, I found my server to be completely unavailable. After 3 days of downtime, their right hand finally talked to their left hand, and I learned that they had firewalled the machine because it had been sending out boatloads of email. Turns out it had been comprimised. So, they said they would initiate a reinstall of the OS for me so they could release the server again, and then I could restore my backups.
Guess what? NO BACKUPS HAD EVER BEEN DONE!!!
Yes, it's partially my fault for not verifying the backups, but I was never even told how to access the backup server until all of this happened. And by paying them for the service, I really never should have had to.
Needless to say, all of my clients were furious. I lost business over this incident. I cussed them out and found a much better host. -- o o o |
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