More reasons that 1and1 hosting sucks.

[notfred]

They're taking a beating from the blogging community, anyway.

 

[amdskip]

Yep, they obviously don't know what they are doing.

 

[chiwawa626]

And no, you can't get in legal trouble for allowing people to use BitTorrent to serve non-infringing files.

True, but if you are hosting lets say x0,000 domains, who wants to go through each torrent and check if its legal or not (if it is illegal it will just cause the host unwanted trouble with Riaa Mpaa inquiries). So with a number like x0,000 domains, how many of the torrent files on them are legal vs illegal, it would be a hell of a lot easyer to just ban them. Sure its not right, but one of the many reasons why they suck

 

[Lucky]

who pays for their shi**y interface anyways? I don't know anyone paying to use them, everyone got in on that 3 year free deal.

 

[screw3d]

I don't even use my free account there anymore

 

[StageLeft]

I am sorry that you feel this way. However bit torrent generates a lot of traffic and is too hard to keep under control. If we allow bit torrent on our shared system this would create a huge influx in traffic. Also even though people using the bit torrent for good purposes such a promoting there own work or whatever it might be. It is mainly used to download copyrighted files of music, video, etc. If we are [to] allow this on our service we could have a lot of legal issues to deal with that could just be avoided. I apologize for this inconvience again and hope you have a good day.

Can't write, but they're right that most of bittorrent traffic is illegal, copyrighted material.

 

[leggomyeggroll]

that freebie thing was only a 3 year deal? when did it start. i've had mine for a while now but i can't remember when i signed up for it.

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: screw3d
I don't even use my free account there anymore

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll
that freebie thing was only a 3 year deal? when did it start. i've had mine for a while now but i can't remember when i signed up for it.

Yes it was 500MB/5GB free for 3 years.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

It's free, quit your b!tching

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll
that freebie thing was only a 3 year deal? when did it start. i've had mine for a while now but i can't remember when i signed up for it.

I got mine in January 2003/2004 I think.

 

[leggomyeggroll]

i probably got mine around 2003 too, i know it couldnt have been 2004 though. so i guess it expires this coming january?

 

[RossMAN]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1148343&enterthread=y&arctab=y

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

1\04 then.

I registered on the last day, so I'm good for another two years

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: leggomyeggroll
that freebie thing was only a 3 year deal? when did it start. i've had mine for a while now but i can't remember when i signed up for it.

Yes it was 500MB/5GB free for 3 years.

Hell I got in on the free 1GB/60GB and I don't even use it

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Hell I got in on the free 1GB/60GB and I don't even use it

Yeah, but that's only for 6 months. Speaking of which, mine is about to expire