Kubi 0 Report post Posted January 17, 2007 Grr.I registered with 1and1, probably because there the cheapest. Now I know why. I first found nothing wrong with 1and1, infact, I thought they were pretty nice. Now I know they're not.. From what I hear nameserver changes take up to 1milisecond. Why is 1and1 taking over 2 days sometimes? Could be the fact they're using stone-age technology. But, I'm no webdesigner - oh wait, yes I am.I had to modify my MX Entries, as most of you know by now, to get goolge apps to work with my domain. I wanted to provide my very small masses with personalize ot-design.net emails. I thought it'd be coolio. The only way of changing MX Entries with 1and1, is reverting ALL nameservers, to THERE nameservers. So there was absolutely not way I could do this without messing up my website. Which is now down by the way, because the nameservers are incorrect.GoDaddy was supposed to be much better, so I decided to go there. Well, it was 20 bucks to much for me, so I decided not to. Xisto - Web Hosting was much easier, once I figured out my transfer secret. (ohhh). So now I'll have another 2 days appox. of downtimes, all because of 1and1's slow...whatever they have that's slow. Hopefully with Xisto - Web Hosting it won't take ages to change. I'm a little upset that I referred my friend to 1and1 for his business a few days ago.I dislike 1and1! Arg! Share your complaints and hatred for there slowness and monkeys working at there servers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Albus Dumbledore 0 Report post Posted January 17, 2007 must be your bad luck, because every time i need to change the name servers for my domains (i have over 10 of them) it happens in less than 4 hours each time.... godaddy sucks anyways Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kubi 0 Report post Posted January 17, 2007 It maybe 4 hours for you, but it's 1-2 days for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Albus Dumbledore 0 Report post Posted January 17, 2007 like i said it's probably just ur luck, because every time i need to change it does it instantly no problemos, also when i had to change a couple of my domain info to fit for the google carp, it did it instantly and just fine Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zak92 0 Report post Posted January 17, 2007 Well yeah 1&1 is a *BLEEP* company. Godaddy i cant say anything because i never personally tried it. As far as i know Xisto is my best host for free. I realised instead of paying i better get free hosting because my site is a hobby site anyways and why waste money on it. I love this site. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QuickSilva 0 Report post Posted January 17, 2007 Learn from your mistakes, I am sure you'll never go there again. I always use Xisto - Web Hosting for all my domain needs. They're speedy and as you know, the Xisto - Web Hosting support is excellent! Well I have to rush.Have a good day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dooga 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2007 1 and 1 is 2!I think that Xisto - Web Hosting is way better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blendergalactica 0 Report post Posted January 18, 2007 I've used Schuland & Partner AG for 10 years now. (That's the German Company that owns 1&1) And I can't complain. We use them for our corporate hosting and dedicated servers at work. Very reasonable and I can't complain. But I work on sites in the US and in the EU and dealing with EU can be a different ballgame. (EU data protection laws and such) Whenever we make any server changes, we always plan for a 72-hour delay. Usually it's completed with in 24 hours. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kubi 0 Report post Posted January 19, 2007 I'm mainly talking about there dns services. I couldn't change MX Entries without changing my domain ns's. Much easier to do it on Xisto - Web Hosting. But I'm still waiting for the transfer request approval....which is taking forever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AlternativeNick 0 Report post Posted January 21, 2007 i have not messed with any of the MX setting on 1and1, but everything else ive done regarding my domains has been fineive got 6 or so through them, the first took about 2 days for dns to update, but the rest after that have been within 4-6 hrs, which is not bad if you ask meeven changing nameservers has been relatively fast, so ill still refer people to 1and1, at least for domain purchases Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
michaelper22 0 Report post Posted January 21, 2007 I like 1&1 for their prices, but the advanced settings for domains are purely owrthless. If you want to change your domain's MX entries, use cPanel to do that (Email -> Modify Mail Exchanger). I would be willing to experiment with the DNS stuff if I had 1&1 hosting, but until that happens (not likely, since OpaQue's computingHot is mighty fine), I'll leave everything as is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
caos dreamer 0 Report post Posted January 22, 2007 (edited) 1 und 1 is my internet provider and its really the best i can get here but it might be that their hosting offers are not that good Edited January 22, 2007 by caos dreamer (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
