If anyone wants my old 17″ CRT monitor it’s yours for the asking. Of course I won’t pay for shipping or pack it up, so you’ll have to come over and pick it up. It’s a Phillips, still in good condition, built in speakers and microphone. VGA Cable and Power cord included.

I made a small page on my old 1and1 hosting account, of which I’ve moved most of my stuff to another host already, but I really wanted to see if 1and1 Shared windows hosting could hold up under Digg… Lets Have a little fun!

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I feel that it is my responsibility to write a post about my hosting experiences with these two companies. I started using 1AND1 a while back when they were offering those free “professional” hosting accounts for 3 years. Not a bad deal, I had nothing to lose. For two years all was well on 1AND1, I hosted this same blog on there, I hosted a couple of low traffic websites. So after graduating from University I started up my own design business and began putting some of my customers onto 1AND1. For the price and features it is a solid solution. However what you can’t see is downtime. No amount of refunds can really cover the tireless frustrating hours of down time on a mission critical website.

The worst down times I experienced on 1AND1 were five, 4-5 hour outages in the course of one week. Yeah, talk about unacceptable. The weird thing is I was lucky enough to have 2 customers on the problematic server while 4 other accounts ran flawlessly and have still run flawlessly. After a week of useless talking to 1AND1 support agents, I finally decided it was time to start looking for a new web host. I looked around at DreamHost, MediaTemple, and Mosso. Currently on my account I host 10 websites across 5 domains. I was however looking for something not only I could move to but also bring my old customers as well as new ones with me as well.

Mosso looked quite promising, however the $99.00 price tag wasn’t so attractive. And the idea of having to bill my own customers wasn’t an attractive one. DreamHost looked very attractive, but when I started searching google about the, I noticed too many mixed reviews. This led me to Media Temple. They’re the only host that I had seen its customers boasting with little MT logos about their hosting company. So I looked into it, read reviews and have given it a whirl. So far, as a designer/developer, I couldn’t be more happy with the hosting experience.

In 3 months my site hasn’t gone down yet, speed has remained consistent, and customer service is excellent. There is a slight higher price tag for Media Temple, but it’s a price tag with paying. You can read Media Temple’s features on their website. I haven’t been happier with a web host yet. All of my domains have been moved onto my Grid Hosting account. Might I add that 1AND1 imposes a ridiculously low Database limit of 100 MgB per database. This just doesn’t cut it for CMS based websites.

It’s amazing how much laughter and how many smiles three blind mice can bring to me.

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