[thelist] Hosting recommendations UK (Emergency)

[Norman Beresford]

Hi Chris

There's a thread on the UK based Freelancers list regarding 1&1 at the
moment.  A few people are reporting issues with their windows hosting.

"I've had a lot of those problems with 1+1 MS hosting, the redirection
not working was the most annoying. Personally I wouldn't use them
because the support is so slow and unreliable"


"I have recently (3-4 weeks) signed up for a 1+1 ASP package and have had
the
following problems...

1) Initially, I could not log into the Admin script to change file
permissions. (Eventually sorted after support call which they denied
everything)

2) Yesterday, the only domain on the package (at the moment) which was
pointed to a subdirectory on the webspace ended up pointing itself back to
the root of the webspace (which contained nothing). The config panel showed
the correct redirection, but changing it had no effect. I sent a support
request to them which I have rceceived no reply as yet, but the problem has
fixed itself.

3) Now today, an access Db which had write priveleges has just decided to
become read only. Unfortualy at the moment I can't access the admin script
to fix this so don't know whether it's a quick fix or a more sever problem!"

We've got a dedicated box with Zenithtech (www.zenithtech.co.uk), and we
used to use them for a shared server.

HTH

Norman