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[exisle]

Originally posted by: monto
newbie question (been using my ISP's webspace), can one free account support multiple domains?

the sign up page speaks of subdomains, but how bout domains?

looks like you can add up to 100 domains, but does anyone here know how to delete a domain from the list once you've added it?

 

[Pudgygiant]

Well damn, no more than 30 seconds after I hit submit I got the call. If nothing else they have good customer support!

 

[jma007]

I don't know why they verify you phone number like that. Telemarketing calls?
I don't want to give them my cellphone numbers. I'm at school now and I don't have a land line.
Tell him they don't actually call....

 

[exisle]

anyone know how to get ssh to work?

 

[Pudgygiant]

did https://admin.1and1.com go down for anyone else?

Yeah, kickass host, they can't even keep their site up. It'd be a flaming deal if it was as reliable as said.

*EDIT
OK, back up, but it's getting /. (or AT) to hell.

 

[FPSguy]

Originally posted by: straubs
hmmm. Is CEO Shawn behind this new offer? hehe

It sounds like him, but he's in jail now.

 

[dc]

Originally posted by: FPSguy

Originally posted by: straubs
hmmm. Is CEO Shawn behind this new offer? hehe

It sounds like him, but <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cyberwingsowesmemoney.com/prison.jpg" target=blank>he's in jail now</A>.

woot, justice is served. too bad i lost money in that fiasco.
know the date of that article? he should be in the slammer for more than 18months, need to get him for his cyberwings fraud.

 

[mrlayance]

All I have to say is

http://s86949922.onlinehome.us/

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: dc

Originally posted by: FPSguy

Originally posted by: straubs
hmmm. Is CEO Shawn behind this new offer? hehe

It sounds like him, but <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cyberwingsowesmemoney.com/prison.jpg" target=blank>he's in jail now</A>.

woot, justice is served. too bad i lost money in that fiasco.
know the date of that article? he should be in the slammer for more than 18months, need to get him for his cyberwings fraud.

It's unfortunate that CEO Shawn J White isn't in jail for his CyberWings scam.

He's in jail for another reason.

 

[KeyserSoze]

Sweet. They just called me after I gave them my phone number. And they give you a pin, and now I'm gonna get another email confirming all of this.

If this goes through....RossMan, I take back ALL those bad things I said about you. And believe me....there were a lot


(I still think your an Avatar Slut)





KeyserSoze

 

[cyberia]

Originally posted by: Pudgygiant
It's pretty obvious why they're doing this (at least to me, not to sound full of myself though)... no plans are selling! At least this way if ten people sign up in a couple years for a paying plan they get some subscribers. And if it's as good as some of the links posted here say then I definitely will be one of the aforementioned subscribers. Either way, good find RossMAN

Three years is an awfully long time to wait for a payoff. Maybe they are trying to boost their current customer count and projected future revenue because they are putting the company for sale. With, say 50,000 new customers, at $19.95/month or whatever their average rate is, they will definitely look more attractive for a buyout even though the payoff is 3 years away.

 

[2fargon]

If someone wants to register their domain name elsewhere, which is the wise thing, after all the user feedback regarding how 1&1 is possessive about domain names, Rackshack is a good option, where you can register a domain name for $5.41 inclusive of all taxes.

I had no issues registering a name with rackshack and then getting it to point to the 1&1 webspace. The name might take time to propagate, but I have made changes to the settings at rackshack and 1&1 so now its just a matter of time before prerona.net starts working.

Thanks Rossman

 

[DrumminBoy]

dang, I didnt think to use a spam account when I registered. Hope they arent giving this info away...

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: 2fargon
This forummakes it look like the guys at 1and1 are too possesive about the domain names!! Like they are some psycho retards....so that might be the catch. you are with them forever that way!

NameZero was like that. They used to offer free domain registration - with a catch. The domain was registered in their name, and they offered a frame-based redirection to another webhost (you supply), and they put an ad in the outer frame. They also offered domain-based e-mail and forwarding, which was actually pretty cool. But when the bottom dropped out of the internet advertising market, they apparently couldn't continue to offer their services for free, and instead kept sending me these e-mails, trying to get me to pay them off to get the domain name that I had registered through them. They held on to it for an entire year afterwards, sending me e-mails the whole time. But the catch was that they wanted more money to hand it over, than it would have cost to register it, or even to buy it off of them before my first year was up.

ProHosting also did something like that, except MUCH more sleazy. I signed up for free ad-supported webhosting with them some time ago (granted, I never actually used it for much of anything, but likewise, I never cost them much storage or bandwidth either). But again, when the internet ad market bombed, they did something that almost prompted me to contact my state's AG - they sent me an "invoice", demanding payment, for a service that was offered initially for free, with no catches involved, other than requiring the display of ads on your web pages. I could have understood, had they sent me an e-mail explaining that they could no longer continue providing their ad-supported free webhosting services, and request that I upgrade to a paid plan or cancel. I would have understood, and probably just canceled, since I never used it for much of anything. But to send me several "INVOICE" e-mails, demanding payment for services that were offered for free, just rubbed me completely the wrong way.

(I was also concerned about potential credit-history ramifications, should I not pay the bill, but then I realized that I had never given them any personal information when I signed up, much less billing info, so I finally just ignored them. I got another e-mail several months later, simply requesting that I sign up for their paid services, instead of demanding a would-be extortive payoff, had they actually had my personal credit details available.)

Based on those experiences, I can personally NEVER RECOMMEND PROHOSTING, for their egregiously sleazy behavior. I hope that no-one else would either.

I also had some free webspace on spaceports.com, that I never used either, but they just simply deleted my acct. for inactivity, which is proabably the more sane response, compared to ProHosting.

PS. I would also be curious if anyone else here ever recieved any demanding invoice e-mails as well. PM me.

 

[pcstuff]

Originally posted by: mrlayance
All I have to say is

http://s86949922.onlinehome.us/

error 404: File not found

Btw, I actived mine with them and it is up and running!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: bearxor
I signed up, and they called me up with my pin number. I went and put it in, and am waiting on the last email thats supposed to tell me how to get into the account.

At this point they have asked for NO payment verification types. They might just take your information and sell it.

Do they *require* your phone number?

They could always place a charge against that number later on, you know. So if they have your phone number, they *do* have your billing and credit info, most likely.

That alone makes this deal a bit-less-than-hot for me, having already been the attempted target of a billing scam for "free" webhosting.

 

[philong]

well, the old saying "there is no free lunch", beware.

 

[d3vil]

is it possible to bill cell phone #'s?
if so, is it any more expensive than regular phone #s?
by the way, you know you can change your phone # after you have your account set up?

(if they do call it after you changed it, just deny your existence at that address providing you used fake names when you signed up.. it's that easy.. heh)

 

[girishraja]

My account says
s86982037.onlinehome.us
applying

Do I have to wait till that applying status changes.
my default website doens't work.
How long do I have to wait after I get the final email from them?

-Girish Raja.

 

[d3vil]

it takes a few hours.. before apply turns to done.. or ready

 

[cyberia]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Do they *require* your phone number? They could always place a charge against that number later on, you know. So if they have your phone number, they *do* have your billing and credit info, most likely. That alone makes this deal a bit-less-than-hot for me, having already been the attempted target of a billing scam for "free" webhosting.

This sounds scary. Isn't this how some 900-number services and international calls work? You call a free number and they call you back. Here, however, you never CALL anybody. THEY call you. Are you asked to accept a collect call?

 

[BigFatCow]

Originally posted by: cyberia

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Do they *require* your phone number? They could always place a charge against that number later on, you know. So if they have your phone number, they *do* have your billing and credit info, most likely. That alone makes this deal a bit-less-than-hot for me, having already been the attempted target of a billing scam for "free" webhosting.

This sounds scary. Isn't this how some 900-number services and international calls work? You call a free number and they call you back. Here, however, you never CALL anybody. THEY call you. Are you asked to accept a collect call?

no, its not a collect call. i used my cell phone number and now im wondering if i made a bad choice...

 

[KamakaziRcr]

I used my work number to confirm.

 

[ragazzo]

go to internet cafe w/pay phone outside. go to site and use pay phone's #. profit ++

 

[d3vil]

anyone know any good url/dns redirector services that are short/easy to remember that work well with this? (i tried da.ru but directories don't work)