Most of my domains are located on 1&1 for many years. Got the email from it a few days ago, regarding the price change of domain. We are writing today to inform you that as a result of recent price increases by the major domain registries, we need to increaseContinue Reading
In the end of last year, I helped a charity society upgrade their forum from phpBB2 to phpBB 3. They host their web site and phpBB forum on 1and1 Business hosting plan. I did have much experience on upgrading, updating phpBB etc. The procedures of upgrade from phpBB 2 toContinue Reading
With 1&1 Linux hosting packages you have the choice between PHP4, PHP5 and PHP6. 1&1 Web Hosting packages use PHP4 as default for all .php files. Why 1and1 still using php4 as default? It is too old. A lot of program are not support php4 any more. Just like phpBBContinue Reading
It is shared hosting account. Some php program ask for register_globals to be turned off. The default is on. How can I turn off it? I can not touch php.ini. So go for .htaccess. Just add one into it. AddType x-mapp-php5 .php 1and1 php5 engine set register_globals off by default.Continue Reading
I have a installation on 1and1 shared server, beginner package. In the Administrator, back-end, I got the warning as below:Continue Reading
I just switch my hosting plan from MS Beginner to Linux Beginner package. The switching is OK. Even I find so many problems, I still want to keep my hosting plan on 1and1. One more issue is the Linux Beginner package does not support Zend Optimizer. Only when I upgradeContinue Reading
For 1and1 hosting plan, I have so many problems with them and phoned them many times. 1) The MS Beginner package. Very slow, and many downtime. Even they reimburse me, I have to move one of my site to my own server to keep my Users happy. 2) Domain nameContinue Reading
I have a site which is hosted by 1and1. It is down last week about 8 or 9 hours. I remember that it has a 99.99% uptime guarantee. So, I send an email to them and get the confirmation to reimburse me 3 month free hosting. 1and1 is a trustworthyContinue Reading
I have a 1and1 host plan. It provide some vouchers for clients. I active one voucher of Microsoft adCenter. I want to sign up a new account on adCenter with this voucher. I failed finally. Let me address the details of this trial. Background: I live in Canada. I haveContinue Reading