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Well the renewal has come up and my simple hosting was going to cost about £40 per year again. I have had no problems at all with 1&1 but I have also got another site with one.com which costs about £10 per year and gives me 3Gb rather than 500Mb. So I have decided to move everything. Questions have come up about this recently so I am going to use this thread as a sort of moving blog so people can see if it was easy or hard......
 
1st job, contacted one.com and asked for the price with them and what I needed to do....

Fill out the on-line order form with my current web site address and then contact your current registrar and request that they change the TAG (registrar) for your domain to one.com's TAG.
 
2nd job, rang 1&1.....

Checked the latest day that this could be sorted without them charging me another year.....

They can change my 3 web site addresses to registration only to hold them but IF they do my site will vanish. Told to backup my site and ring them back.
 
Just had an email from one.com saying that the order is successful and it will cost me £10.58 for the whole year with 3Gb and unlimited traffic. Just need to finish the download and change the TAG.

so far so good.

one.com also confirmed that I am likely to lose my email and web site for up to 48 hours as the DNS information propagates.......
 
Right the site is downloaded..... Now to ring 1&1 back.
 
Rang 1&1 back,

... you have 17 email addresses and everything will be lost have you backed them up.....

er no.

... ok back them up and ring back....
 
Right 17 email addresses!!!

Deleted 7 straight away as unused.

Need to backup the contents of several and need to redirect TP and other stuff to point to a temporary email address....
 
cowasaki said:
one.com also confirmed that I am likely to lose my email and web site for up to 48 hours as the DNS information propagates.......
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normally 48 hours is a worst case, most DNS updates I've requested are actioned within 1 hour. however its all the other smaller DNS servers across the web that take the longest to update, but again 48 hours is a worst case.

will be interesting to see how long your change takes :)
 
Thanks, can't change it yet still sorting out email etc. I have 17000 emails in my forums email account!
 
Right TP and Facebook redirected to my Sky email address......

Ebay and Paypal redirected too.....
 
Next step copy all the email I want to keep..... DONE
 
Right into 1&1's control panel on line and deleted all my email addresses
 
** Watching this thread with interest - I'm with 1&1 at the moment but looking at re-doing my website which will involve new hosting too ** :)
 
Rung 1&1 and moved the domain to the new supplier only to be told by tech support that 14 of the 17 email addresses didn't need to be deleted at all and that I could have just kept them as they were because they were under a different domain name........

DOH!!!

So now to re-create the same email addresses again.....

Timer has also started, how long before the switch to one.com?
 
Interesting thread :p Hope it all goes well :thumbs:

I've found DNS tends to update within 1-2 hours. Normally, for some reason - the FTP's seem to work within for about 30mins?

Kipax - Why can't they offer unlimited transfer?

James
 
Jamesbuk said:
Interesting thread :p Hope it all goes well :thumbs:

I've found DNS tends to update within 1-2 hours. Normally, for some reason - the FTP's seem to work within for about 30mins?

Kipax - Why can't they offer unlimited transfer?

James
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dns takes varying times depending on the ISP your with.. one person on BT may see the website within hrs while someone on sky may not see it for 12 hrs (or whatever companies).. it all depends on the isp settings..

no one can offer unlimited traffic because there are limits.. I ahve 94 thousand pics on line.. if i dump them on there website along with loads of videos and get thosuand of people to go look... they would have the site closed down and the small print out as quick as you like..

theres always small print and no comapny can offer unlimited traffic
 
neil_g said:
im not sure if kipax was being sarcastic in that they cant offer you unlimited visitors maybe?
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nope..

every person that visits your website contributes to the traffic.. or bandwidth or data transfer or whatever term is used nowerdays... no hosting company can or will offer unlimited traffic... thats a fact.. there will be small print and for 10 quid a year believe me they will have small prinmt :)
 
KIPAX said:
nope..
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okay, just wasnt very clear :)

every person that visits your website contributes to the traffic.. or bandwidth or data transfer or whatever term is used nowerdays... no hosting company can or will offer unlimited traffic... thats a fact.. there will be small print and for 10 quid a year believe me they will have small prinmt :)
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you dont have to explain bandwidth to me matey, but i havent read the one.com so cant comment on what they are and arent offering..
 
neil_g said:
you dont have to explain bandwidth to me matey, but i havent read the one.com so cant comment on what they are and arent offering..
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well if you dont understand there are limits then you dont fully understand bandwith.. i have no idea about one.com or read anything.. its just fact that you cant offer unlimited
 
Thanks for posting this cowasaki, I have just been reading some reviews of one.com and some are not too great, hopefully they have changed since these reviews

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KIPAX said:
well if you dont understand there are limits then you dont fully understand bandwith.. i have no idea about one on one or read anything.. its just fact that you cant offer unlimited
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notice i havent commented on whether the offered bandwidth is correct or not. its up to cowasaki to check the small prints not me.

maybe i should quit my job as a techie if i dont know about bandwidth.. :shrug:
 
neil_g said:
maybe i should quit my job as a techie if i dont know about bandwidth.. :shrug:
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your missing my point.. you dont have to read anything about any company to know you cant offer unlimited.. what where you posting about my comment if it wasnt supporting it then?

as a techie you should know.. unlimited doesnt exist without small print... fact
 
KIPAX said:
your missing my point.. you dont have to read anything about any company to know you cant offer unlimited.. what where you posting about my comment if it wasnt supporting it then?
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i read your initial comment with a sarcastic tone as it offered no explaination to the OP in its 1 sentance. for that i appologise.

as a techie you should know.. unlimited doesnt exist without small print... fact
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companys vary, some offer capped bandwidth, some offer "unlimited" with fair usage policy. im not going to sit here and read what this company offers in its small print, its not me thats buying the service. therefore i cannot comment on what they are and are not offering.

edit - i get the feeling this is a bit of a non-argument lol
 
robbino said:
Thanks for posting this cowasaki, I have just been reading some reviews of one.com and some are not too great, hopefully they have changed since these reviews

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No to be honest they are probably not the best host in the world but my needs are simple and 99.99999% up time is not as critical as if I was running some company where the loss of time meant the loss of orders. I have used them for www.darrenhillphotography.com for more than a year without issues although that site is only a test ie I bought it to use the online storage and hold that domain name as I am not trading at present. If I get 99.5% up time I am happy and they are cheap!
 
Well at the moment my site is still running from 1&1........
 
Just going through my suppliers and changing the contact email addresses to aim to an email address that is still current. NOTE - I could have left these if I was recreating the same address with my new web host.
 
cowasaki said:
No to be honest they are probably not the best host in the world but my needs are simple and 99.99999% up time is not as critical as if I was running some company where the loss of time meant the loss of orders. I have used them for www.darrenhillphotography.com for more than a year without issues although that site is only a test ie I bought it to use the online storage and hold that domain name as I am not trading at present. If I get 99.5% up time I am happy and they are cheap!
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how did you find the speed for that domain over the year? I am looking myself for a cheapish webhost and also don't need want to pay a premium for 99.99% uptime and things like Fantastico.
 
robbino said:
how did you find the speed for that domain over the year? I am looking myself for a cheapish webhost and also don't need want to pay a premium for 99.99% uptime and things like Fantastico.
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It seems quick enough and I am not aware of down time. There is an online control panel and unlimited email addresses etc. It's £10.58 for a year including a new web address or transfer
 
Still accessing 1&1 web site via iPhone. No emails from one.com re the switch yet.
 
I'm in the process of doing the same thing, although staggering it out over a few weeks.
 
Well I've lost access to the FTP server on my old service provider. Not sure if my site has gone down yet but no confirmation yet of the new one appearing. So even if they have it I can't upload the new one.
 
Not heard anything yet so replied to the email confirming the web registration asking when I will receive login info etc......
 
I use one.com and have done for a couple of years now. The one time I needed help they responded quickly and gave me the info I needed. There does seem to be the odd time when the server seems to go to sleep - bit like waiting for a drive to spin up on your own computer when it goes to sleep. Doesn't happen very often and it is only temporary.

For the cost they suit me. The support thing was getting gallery2 to work. They only provide safe mode php or something and it needed full (?) .... not something where I really know what I'm talking about.... but they gave me a link to a version of gallery that would work.
 
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