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Why not to use 1and1 for hosting

And this is why I don’t think of 1and1 as a serious company for web hosting:

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iPower: The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

iPower: The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. If you’re getting this error on iPower you need to enable CGI / scripts. Sometimes your account will show you that this is enabled, even if it is not. Contact iPower support to get them to resolve it for you. Even if in your control panel homepage CGI / PHP is showing up as active, click on the server configuration tab and you probably will see that CGI is in fact inactive:

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Are “A Small Orange” and “Hostnine LLC” the same company?

To me it looks like “A Small Orange” and “Hostnine LLC” are the same company… Addresses for Hostnine and “A Small Orange” mapped: Whois information for Hostnine Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: HOSTNINE.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com Name Server: DNS1.HOSTNINE.COM Name Server: DNS2.HOSTNINE.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 10-jan-2011 Creation Date: 08-aug-2006 Expiration Date: 08-aug-2017 Registrant: HostNine LLC 650 Hamilton Ave SE Suite D Atlanta, Georgia 30312 United States Registered through: Go Daddy Domain Name: HOSTNINE.COM Created on: 08-Aug-06 Expires on: 08-Aug-17 Last Updated on: 10-Jan-11 Administrative Contact: Hanna, Douglas domains@hostnine.com HostNine LLC 650 Hamilton Ave SE Suite D Atlanta, Georgia 30312 United States +1.8772514678 Fax — Technical Contact: Hanna, Douglas domains@hostnine.com HostNine LLC 650 Hamilton Ave SE Suite D Atlanta, Georgia 30312 United States +1.8772514678 Fax — Domain servers in listed order: DNS1.HOSTNINE.COM DNS2.HOSTNINE.COM Whois information for “A Small Orange” Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: ASMALLORANGE.COM Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Name Server: NS1.ASMALLORANGE.COM Name Server: NS2.ASMALLORANGE.COM Status: clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 03-aug-2010 Creation Date: 15-jan-2004 Expiration Date: 15-jan-2015 >>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:41:48 UTC < << Domain name: asmallorange.com Registrant Contact: … Continue reading

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10 Amazon EC2 Alternatives

Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ Terremark / vCloud Express Terremark brings the power of the cloud to the enterprise with solutions built to integrate seamlessly into your existing I.T. infrastructure, compatible with your existing applications, and conforming to your policies and compliance needs, helping you move faster, respond quicker, and accelerate innovation. Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud gives you precise, dynamic allocation of computing resources with the scale, performance and security to handle enterprise-wide applications. Large organizations, IT executives and multi-site teams will appreciate the robust solution for its multi-user capacity, dedicated resource pool architecture and role-based security model as well as private network connectivity and physical device integration. http://vcloudexpress.terremark.com/ Eucalyptus Eucalyptus is the world’s most widely deployed cloud computing software platform for on-premise … Continue reading

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Big Hosting Companies

Here’s a list of some of the biggest and most prominent hosting companies on the web: 123-reg.co.uk 1and1 4d Web Hosting BT broadband office dnsExit DNS Park Domain Explorer DomainSite DreamHost Dynadot DynDNS Enom EveryDNS.net Gandi.net GoDaddy iCodia iPowerWeb ix Web Hosting Lxlabs Name.com Name.net Namesecure NearlyFreeSpeech Netfirms Network Solutions No-IP Registerfly.com vserver.de Webhost4Life WHM XName Yahoo! ZoneEdit

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