Originally posted by: gr8tango
You can't condemn a hosting provider by it's deals.
- 1and1 seems to work fine for me, a little slow on the control panel, but 500MB free for 3 years, I won't complain (too bad that promo ended)
I hate to bring up something off-topic, but has anyone else that signed up for that 1and1.com deal, have problems with their acct. being "locked" after the first month? I helped a friend sign up for that deal, to host some self-recorded console game vids, mostly. Anyways, apparently he went over the xfer limit bandwidth at the end of the first month. Also, the phone # used to sign up for the deal, was no longer in service, at that point in time. Is it possible, that they tried to call him, to get him to pay more $$$ to re-enable the acct., found out the phone # wasn't in service, and then disabled/canceled the acct. on him?
I don't have the admin details to access his acct., all I know was that the last time I checked with him, it showed "locked". He's not the most computer-literate type in the world, so I was helping him out with stuff.
I figured that it would automatically be unlocked at the start of the next month, if it were locked for xfer limit exceeded during the prior month, but that never happened. So I have no idea what's really going on. Has anyone else exceeded their 1and1.com bandwidth allocation, and what is the protocol when that happens?