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Calendaring isn't part of email. That costs extra. You can pay a few bucks a month and use Exchange hosting, which is awesome, and has calendaring and tasks and a whole bunch of stuff.

Anybody that you pay money to that has a privacy notice will be private. If you pay them, you can sue them. If it's free, you can't.

In terms of integration with your phone, IMAP and SMTP have been standards for decades, now. If your phone can't deal with those things, then you probably have a shitty phone.

Here's one that's $1/month: https://www.1and1.com/email-ho...

As with most things in life, you get what you pay for.

Come on. We've seen enough of this, see the Trump deregulation of broadband providers to see people's data. We have to assume that anyone having our data is selling it unless there is a written statement indicating no data will be given to 3rd parities without the customer explicit consent. There are VPN companies who will put in writing "no traffic logs kept". Hopefully such companies honor those words. Free services have to be used with extreme caution. The irony is you can get you own email for as little as 5-10/month and you get your OWN domain. http://www.namecheap.com/ http://order.1and1.com/ http://www.name.com/ I've left out GoDaddy because they seem to have regular (if brief) service interruptions (probably from overload plus cyber attacks as GoDaddy is very, very large). There are other of course. Of course I suggest reading the privacy policy in full. Perhaps we'll start taking privacy more serious, given we have so much effort in business and government to eliminate it for profit.

I've been reporting security issues in local businesses that I deal with. One is an ISP that stores and emails users passwords in plain text. Another is a bank exposing credit card numbers in plain text. When I report this shit, I expect actual follow through in fixing them. In the former case, the ISP literally gave me a "not our problem" response, while the bank said they'd contact me back and never did (still need to check to see if this issue has at least been resolved though).

Personalised e-mail addresses in Amsterdam, the U.K., Germany and the Republic of Ireland and the U.S. that send their users their password by e-mail in plain text. They send them a link to their control panel http instead of https and there master password by e-mail in plain text.

Typical example from the U.K. would be http://www.tecknaonline.com/
  http://www.outitgoes.com/ for customers when it should be: https://webmail.extendcp.co.uk...

And their control panel root for customers: http://control.yourdomain.co.u...
should be: https://ssl.extendcp.co.uk/log...

Which are usually sold to a individual who registers as a company and then sells them on to the public and he or she usually purchases them from:
https://www.1and1.com/

The end customer will receive an easy to remember password and the end customer usually never changes those extremely easy to guess passwords.

I checked out their pricing estimator
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.n...
and while they're inexpensive for most stuff, they'd cost me an arm and a leg for storage. I keep an FTP mirror that while it gets very little traffic, presently has over 40GB of files. That pulled the storage charge up to about 10x what I'm presently paying, and rather considerably offset what I'd save on my two dozen domains.

Anyway, I've been using 1&1 since 2003 and been nothing but happy with 'em. Shameless affiliate link:

http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=676...

You may be correct sir:

[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.schlund.info]
[Querying whois.schlund.info]
[whois.schlund.info]
Domain Name: gmx.com
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.1und1.info
Registrar URL: http://1and1.com/
Updated Date: 2014-05-08 00:00:00
Creation Date: 1994-05-07 00:00:00
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-05-08 00:00:00
Registrar: 1&1 Internet AG
Registrar IANA ID: 83
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@1and1.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Jan Oetjen
Registrant Organization: 1&1 Mail & Media Inc.
Registrant Street: 701 Lee Rd.
Registrant City: Chesterbrook
Registrant State/Province: PA
Registrant Postal Code: 19087
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.8774612631
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +1.6105601501
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: hostmaster@schlund.de
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Jan Oetjen
Admin Organization: 1&1 Mail & Media Inc.
Admin Street: 701 Lee Rd.
Admin City: Chesterbrook
Admin State/Province: PA
Admin Postal Code: 19087
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.8774612631
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +1.6105601501
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: hostmaster@schlund.de
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Jan Oetjen
Tech Organization: 1&1 Mail & Media Inc.
Tech Street: 701 Lee Rd.
Tech City: Chesterbrook
Tech State/Province: PA
Tech Postal Code: 19087
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.8774612631
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +1.6105601501
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: hostmaster@schlund.de
Name Server: ns-gmx.ui-dns.de
Name Server: ns-gmx.ui-dns.biz
Name Server: ns-gmx.ui-dns.com
Name Server: ns-gmx.ui-dns.org
DNSSEC: Unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/

Bah humbug. Well, no crashplan for me.

Probably best off to just hurl disk images at my web hosting**, since I have unlimited space and bandwidth. Well, some year when *I* actually have upstream speed worth noticing. :(

Shameless affiliate link:
http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=676...
10 years now and still happy as hell with 'em.

1and1.com is a US-based company, or has management staff in the United States, so that won't work.

This is what I understand:
1) The U.S. government can force any company to do anything it wants.
2) The U.S. government can demand that the company keep that secret.
3) The U.S. government can put a U.S. employee in prison if 1 and 2 are not followed.

Seems to me to be a vicious, anti-democratic government.

I'd go with one of their dedicated server options: http://order.1and1.com/ServerPremiumXL?__lf=Static&linkOrigin=ServerPremiumL&linkId=ctn.more.ServerPremiumL Won't post my referral link, I just think they rock.

You can get hosting at a real hosting provider for less than that, with FTP, domain name included, far more space, mailboxes, and various other perks.

http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6761404

If I were you as a one-man operation, I would definitely look into a cloud-based service - not so much for technical reasons but for reasons of practicality. It is challenging enough to manage your sales, marketing, and accounting let alone your information technology. The cloud will at least alleviate one significant headache allowing you to focus on earning money. I run my own IT consulting business part-time and I use Google Apps for Business because the last thing I want to do is maintain an Windows Domain Controller and Exchange Server. By all rights, I have experience as both a Windows and UNIX admin but my focus needs to be on drumming up business, not worrying about malware, viruses, and database corruption. I believe you can find competitive Windows Server Hosting from companies like 1and1 at http://www.1and1.com./

Rent a dedicated server, or get your own co-location space. I have one that I pay $70 a month for with 1and1. I use 'em because I was able to install my own OS image on there, and they're generous with the bandwidth, although I'm not sure I'd run a company's e-mail server through them--the network connection can be flaky. About a year ago they went down after 5pm for an hour or so for a week or two due to a DDoS, then the last week they have been not accepting new connections (existing connections work fine) for periods of 1-3 hours during business hours. Seems to have cleared up now, and those are the only issues I can recall. Not sure if they have a multihomed network connection available for more money.

Of course, pretty much anything would be a step up from running it off a cable modem.

Anyway, rent a dedicated server, or get to a co-lo. 1U would be plenty, and shouldn't cost too much. Preferably one run by an ISP, as they have plenty of experience being on both sides of the spam issue and if you're on a nearby address space, a personal interest in keeping that address space off of spam lists.

About a year ago I moved all my domains from GoDaddy, where they'd been since 1998, to 1&1, where I'd had web hosting since 2003 or so. GoDaddy was increasingly irritating (does their upselling never end??!); 1&1 was nice to start with and has done nothing but get better (got more for the same money as time went on, no marketing BS, and tech support always has Real Clues).

Having hosting and domains in the same place makes it real easy -- I use 1&1's control panel to point each domain at a subdirectory, and It Just Works. So far zero complaints from me.

Also, if a payment gets messed up (like from a dead credit card), they don't just nuke your account or freeze your domains; you get an inquiry from Billing, and a chance to fix it. They also make it easy to renew your expired domains, if you miss the date.

Shameless affiliate link:
http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6761404

I use 1&1. Their prices are lower than the competition and I've received great customer service. I haven't caught them doing anything scummy, like GoDaddy has been caught doing (Ignoring ICANN rules and Requiring root passwords). There are many good registrars out there, and many scummy ones. I'd recommend looking around, and be aware that price isn't the only important thing.

Screw the bank being decent, I'm more amazed that 1&1 refunded you! Did you kidnap their VP's daughter or something?

His son, actually.

But in all seriousness, I've never had a problem with 1&1 on the customer service front, and refunds are automatic when you cancel your service effective immediately: cancel.1and1.com. I think they have a 30-day guarantee on new service which gives you a full refund if you cancel, but after that, you get a pro-rated refund, and you can cancel at any time for any reason.

Right now, the ISPs are charging the same price to heavy users and light users. Heavy users cost the ISP more than light users. Therefore, their profit motive is to maximize light users and minimize heavy users.

There's an Elephant that you are ignoring.
Comcast residential "promises" to move up to 250GB/month for a fee of $46/month.
I can get 3TB/month of transit through 1&1 for $20/month. Hell, I can get 300GB/month through them for $4/month.

If you don't like 1&1, you can hop on over to godaddy.com. Their most expensive 300GB/month plan is $5/month. Their most expensive "wide open throttle" plan (which must be at least 1.5TB/month, seeing as how that's their next smallest plan [which is $7/month, at worst]) is $15/month.

Please tell me how these companies can move 20% more of my data than Comcast can for a tenth of what Comcast charges.

You'd have to ask them about their actual costs and levels of use, but hosting companies charge about the same for Windows hosting as they do Linux hosting:

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/MsHosting

(you'll have to click and compare to Linux hosting for yourself)

1and1.com is cheap and will do what you ask.
Very nice spam filtering too. This is what I use.

I have web hosting with 1&1, which includes both a free domain name and shitloads of email boxes. I use one of my domains there for a "my very own" email. The most basic service is about $3/month. For $5/month, I get 120GB of space, 1200 mailboxes (WTF am I going to do with all those?!) with POP3, webmail, and forwarding among other features, instant control over all my mailboxes, and good customer service. I've had the service for almost 5 years now and no complaints.

Shameless plug affiliate link: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6761404

In short, register whatever domain suits your fancy, and use it with whatever name you want on your mailbox. Ignore the hosting if you don't need it. (But it is SO nice to have all that handy space...)

I used to use 1&1's email service. It was decent, and inexpensive. Now I just forward all mail from my domains to a gmail account.

Try these guys. Great prices, great packages (some even include FREE domains, renewed anually at no cost) They even provide e-mail only services starting at $1 per month. Here's the link: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=14579989 Cheers...

So, a score of 1 on SlashDot is a good thing?

:P

>>That one single thing would be the difference in $GOBS spent on MS Office, Exchange, server hardware / OS

What you *could* do is purchase an Exchange seat with 1and1.com for $6.99/mo.
For that, you get a copy of the latest Outlook, you get an Exchange seat @yourdomain.com, you get antivirus & antispam, active sync, Outlook Web Access, 1GB of space.
Since this is Exchange, you can do OTA sync too.
$6.99/mo. That's pretty cheap. There is a free 3 month trial right now.
1and1.com

I've been with 1 & 1 http://www.1and1.com/ for domain registration and web-hosting and have never had any complaints. Service is fast and easy, domains are inexpensive, and new domains have always come online quickly, within hours.

there are some, though i haven't tried any, eg: 1and1

I switched to 1&1 from GoDaddy. Their prices are pretty good, from what I've seen. The only problem I've come across with their hosting is that if I have two 1&1 accounts (A and B) and I have a domain (foo.com) on account A and a hosting package on account B, I can't point foo.com to my 1&1 hosted server... more accurately, I can't set my 1&1-hosted server (on account B) to direct incoming connections for foo.com to a specific folder on the server as I would if the domain were on the same account as the hosting package or on an external registrar. It appears to be something they overlooked when they set up their system.

I used to be with FastMail, and then MailSnare. I'm now using 1and1. Their support sucks, but I haven't needed to use them yet for e-mail (I've used them for other services).

5 mailboxes, 2GB storage, IMAP, SMTP - $0.99/month.

PS, labels suck. I don't just want to tag something... I want to MOVE it to a folder. Gmail's interface sucks too. They should purchase Yahoo mail or something.

1and1 gives me 2GB of storage, Webmail, and IMAP access for $0.99/month. That's pretty cheap for IMAP support. Their support isn't the greatest, but I rarely have had to contact them. So far, it "just works."

If only that were true. Part of the problem is that recently Six Apart like to interpret the TOS in ways that aren't explicitly stated in the TOS.

This isn't about how Six Apart or LJ likes to interpret the TOS. It's about how LJ users want to interpret the TOS. But lets put it a different way...

Premise A) The LJ TOS clearly states you cannot post "objectionable" material? objectionable being defined in the TOS under MEMBER CONDUCT but specifically item 1...

"Upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive to another's privacy (up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or any other contact information without the written consent of the owner of such information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;".

No one has a problem with that, correct? Then lets go on to the next logical point...

Premise B) To put a link on your LJ blog, you have to post it. Correct? Any objections? There shouldn't be. Links cannot magically appear on your LJ blog.

Thus, since a link can be posted, and the contents of said link can be objectionable, it there for can be a TOS violation.

What those who are complaining are trying to argue is this...

That since a link does not literally contain the objectionable content (for example, an image), but is only a connection to said objectionable content, it cannot be objected to and it therefor does not apply to the TOS.

This premise if false. A link, a word, an image is content. ANY content can be objected to. That doesn't mean such an objection is always valid. It just means that someone could object it. LJ, in their clarifications, clearly pointed this policy out. They said: " any child p0rn objections will be followed up on, no matter what." They went on to say: "Only other objections that have been substantiated will be followed up on. Any objection that appears to be baseless will be ignored." (paraphrasing)

What's not to understand? Ironically, the blogger "liz_marcs" makes this comment...

Talk about a complete misunderstanding of how the Internet works.

The internet is nothing BUT links (aka connections) to material that is electronically transfered from one location to another. To go to a website, you have to make a link, a connection, to that website. Pictures on that site need to be linked too, even if they're on the same site, so your browser knows how and where to ask for them. I only bring this up because if you read "liz_marcs" conversation she posted to the LJ rep, it's clear "she" doesn't know how the internet works as she tries to be exclusive to some "links" but not others...

I'm not talking about displaying an objectionable image hosted on, say Photobucket, and linked using the "img" tag. I'm talking about linking to a site or an image using the "a href" tag.

So, it's not ok to link an objectionable image with an "img" tag, but it's ok to link to it with an anchor tag("a href")? An objectionable item is an objectionable item, it doesn't matter how you link it. You're directing (linking/connecting) others to it's access. That's the objection.

Some people cough up money for LJ too.

Good for LJ. Those who pay are a subset of those who have access for free. Everyone gets the "free" services, those who pay get more services. I just used the parent set of "free" people because everyone falls into that category.

And if a hosting service had this policy too,

A lot

Business pack under $10, 250GB storage and 2.5TB transfer.

http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9087186

For the important stuff, I use Rackspace. Starts at about $300/month for a decently-specced linux/freebsd box. Network, reliability, and support are top-notch. In the case of major problems like hard drive failures (which are going to happen eventually when you have enough boxes for enough time), they have been incredibly responsive and done everything I could have hoped for in order to get me back up and running ASAP.

For everything else, I use 1and1. Starts at about $100/month for a decent linux/freebsd box. I haven't had any real problems (network outages or hardware failures) in all the years I've been with them, but their support is pretty slow to respond to minor stuff so I'm not sure how they'd be with major issues. They provide remote serial console connections so you can even reboot your machine and run it in single-user mode, nice for doing upgrades and recovering from stupid firewall misconfigurations.

http://www.1and1.com/ And their hosting plans aren't bad either

yeah, nice ref ID attached to that one. here, for the lazy: http://www.1and1.com/ sans any ref IDs.

On the topic of cheap, reliable, lots-of-bandwidth web hosting I'd have to say 1and1 is really solid. 2 domains, 100gb of web space, 1,000 email accounts AND a terabyte of monthly traffic for $3.74/month. I've been using them for over 2 years and they have been fantastic from hosting to support. I moved all my domains and hosting from GoDaddy (complete morons). Now using a dedicated server from them which I couldn't be more happy about and can't beat the price.

So off my soapbox, here's the link.

www.1and1.com

If you're looking for a domain registrar, try 1&1. I don't know anything about their hosting services though.

One, you are asking a linux-based culture about windows and ASP. I could tell you ahead of time that it won't work.
Two, (Wait, I just thought of one. 1and1 is where I get my LAMP hosting, but reciently they have been doing Win2003 hosting.) ASP is not the industry standard, so seriously consider porting your code to work with ASP-on-linux or even better Perl or PHP on GNU+Linux. It will save you a lot of time in the end.

Seriously.

If you are looking for an alternative I'd (kind of) recommend 1and1.com

We have several domains with them ($5.95/domain), they are generally OK. Make sure you read the terms though, for sometimes they are not what one would implicitly expect.

I have been using 1and1.com as my provider for about 3 years.

They are a very large company, originally from Europe. In Germany they are the largest hosting provider. What they did when they entered the US market 3 years ago was what brought me to them:
Any other company would have spent the allocated marketing millions for buying ad space and all that stuff. They gave away their best (shared) hosting product for free for 3 years, no strings attached - no ads (on your site), no need to stay with them after the period. Free hosting on a shared Debian-based system with Mysql, PHP, etc. for nothing. I thought that was a GREAT idea compared to what any other company would have done (i.e. "traditional marketing" using ads). For a large company trying to rely on word of mouth marketing instead of "doing what everyone else does" is very good, that's why I like them.

After two years I used an upgrade offer for those early adopters like me, and now I've their "Developer Hosting" (Linux, shared server) for half the price. I've had no reason for complaints, except that their support works "the Unix way": no news is good news ;-) When I complained about a problem (after the plan upgrade my quota hadn't been changed) I never got a response, but the problem was solved quickly.

I would not use any small companies as a hosting provider. Maybe if I knew they in turn host at a large facility and I needed the sepcial services of that small company for something, but not for a standard off-the-shelf hosting plan. Competition is all nice, but I prefer my server to be in a hosting location like the one I once visited in Sao Paulo (Brazil): huge, extremely clean, two huge ship diesel engines for backup power (and huge batteries to last until they were up), great connections to several Internet backbone providers at once, not just one, excellent security, etc. The company I once worked for rented a small room in some old building in Oakland (CA) and put a few servers and a movable AC in - I don't want that kind of hosting for myself (we were not a hosting provider, we were so stupid to do that for ourselves instead of outsourcing).

Just my own opinion, I've no experience worth mentioning with other providers than 1and1, only with their shared hosting plan and I've no critical apps running.

Oh, maybe one more thing. I said in Germany they're #1, but #2 is not far. It was interesting to see that the two largest German hosters (for some readers who may misunderstand what I say - 1and1.COM is American, you won't have your servers in Europe, okay?) use tow radically different approaches:
1and1 uses decentralized small Linux boxes (or MS Windows, but Linux is their default) for all hosting, they're more like Google (they also use lots of boxes). The other large provider developed the opposite structure: a huge server (Sun) and net attached storage. Of course, things have developed, don't know how much things have progressed, they're now putting lots of ads for Opteron based servers in the papers, but I don't think they threw away the single server for shared hosting. Anyway, I liked the 1and1 philosophy much more - another reason for me to stay with them.

Michael

I would HIGHLY recommend http://1and1.com/ for your hosting needs. I've had 5 or 6 domains registered there under a couple accounts with different hosting plans and have had nothing but excellent service. They've got both linux and microsoft hosting plans, dirt cheap prices and lots of storage space and monthly transfer for the price, plus great custom service.

(and it you want to switch over let me know and you can say you heard about it from me so I get a little $$ =)

I just went ahead and checked the prices at 1&1, which I use, you can get a beginner account with PHP, 5GB space, and 250GB monthly transfer for US$3 a month. Pretty affordable and probably enough to get you started or double that for $5 a month or quadruple it for $10 a month. Even an evil code monkey from an alternate dimension should be able to cough that up.

Really you can get your own hosting with lots of bandwidth pretty cheap. No reason not to have your own server. I have a dedicated server for about $50/month. You can get a hosted account for under $15/month that has all the space and bandwidth you'd probably need.

Well they seemed to have changed their procedures.
http://faq.1and1.com/miscellaneous/1.html

Cancellation can be done online now.

1-and-1 does hosted Exchange service for slightly less money: $7/mo and they offer a far more sane 1GB of storage. http://www.1and1.com/

HP's service offers a tiny 100MB for double the money.

-sid

http://www.strikehosting.com/ http://www.surpasshosting.com/ http://www.1and1.com/ Are all good webhosts

I have had similar problems with GoDaddy hosting. As far as a registrar, they seem to be fine in my experience. However, they somehow seem to mess up their hosting sever configurations, and when you bring it to their attention, instead of fixing it, they write it off as an "unsupported" feature.

Take, for example, using mod_rewrite. I discovered that on their servers you cannot rewrite anything with a .php extension. (You can go to a php extension but not from) When I contacted tech support, they claim that "we do not support mod_rewrite with php files."

This also screws up 404 pages. If you request a non-existant php file, instead of the 404 page you should get, you recieve a nice "No input file specified" error. This comes from the php parser when you execute it without a filename. After bringing that to their attention, they came back with "It's not our problem, fix your script so it doesn't reference a non-existant file" However, my scripts are fine, and that is completely missing the point. If someone bookmarks a file and later you move it. The user should be able to hit that bookmark and get a 404 page for your site, redirecting them. Of course after responding with that, they ignored my message and I have not gotten a reply.

Anyway, stay away from godaddy unless you want to just serve static html files. I wish they would spend less time writing blogs producing "radio shows" and just focus on getting their core business to work properly. I recently just switched to 1and1.com and they seem to be much better so far. After using 1and1's admin interface, it completely blows away the meager interface godaddy has.

The problem I had was that one day my domain disappeared. I tried to politely go through the correct channels, and found that there was only the online support live chat system (the phone number that I did eventually find only rings an answering machine from which I never received a call back). I was told that my domain was down because they were doing server upgrades.

They were apparently doing server upgrades for over a week.

I had to prove that I had a valid contract and that I had paid for the service. Additionally, they kept trying to tell me that they no longer were in the web hosting service and that my domain was now being run by another company. After contacting the other company, they told me that they had no idea what I was talking about and that it was registerfly who was supposed to be in charge of my domain. Back and forth, big headaches and never a straight answer. Additionally, the live chat service is unbelievably slow (takes them almost 45 minutes to an hour until someone actually types anything) and I had to do this a few times after having my connection dumped well into the wait. After all this, I couldn't get a refund for the remainder of my 1 year contract. Luckily, I had my DNS registration elsewhere, so I just switched to another provider and left.

I don't normally speak about my experiences, but this thread is about reliable ISP and web hosting services. As such, I felt that it was necessary to at least post my experience with this company. I don't know if they've changed in the last several months, but I will say that I have been much happier with 1and1.com so far. The features are better (e.g. sftp VS web based form upload) and feels more professional. Remember, don't judge a company by how glossy the web site is. Do your research; I only discovered after the fact that registerfly has some bad history. Check out Web Hosting Talk or Internet Forum first.

1and1.com offers both webhosting and e-mail services for extremely cheap. Their basic webhosting package includes 200 email boxes, 1 GB of webspace and 1 GB of mailspace for just $4.95 a month (click here). I've been hosting my domain/website with them and have never had any problems with them. Very professional and helpful!

1and1.com offers both webhosting and e-mail services for extremely cheap. Their basic webhosting package includes 200 email boxes, 1 GB of webspace and 1 GB of mailspace for just $4.95 a month (click here). I've been hosting my domain/website with them and have never had any problems with them. Very professional and helpful!

I currently use 1and1.com for my hosting, and what I like is that I can tie multiple domain names to my package and can then point each domain name to its own folder. In addition I can setup mailboxes / forwards to any of the domains I have pointing there. I should also say I am on the free preview they were offering in fall 2003 so I can not tell you package prices but what I have seen is inline with everyone else I have seen. If you want to check em out they do have a 6 month free business plan trial going on now, the link for it is:
https://order.1and1.com/xml/microsite/msOrderJS;js essionid=E4F40E525DAD49DEFD89A6F8FF280D90.TC63a

I've been using a small mom and pop for the last 5 years, but as the prices keep dropping and limited disk space (50 megs), I decided to find a new one last month.

1and1.com seems ok, best price ive seen, so far fast, and the cheapest server hosting for 49 dollars a month I've seen. Seen their ads in magazines, figured for that good of a price why not try it out.

The plan I went with for 20 a month has 5 domains, 200 subdomains, 3 mysql, web email, 4000 megs disk space (Guess not a real 4gigs ;), 100gigs transfer, admin website, and shell account. Everything is automated, i transfered 2 domains and had them up by next morning. They also offer 5 dollar domain registration. I suspect they keep prices low by keeping everything automated, the mysql accounts (On firewalled db servers) had random username/passwords on different db hosts. I havnt tried the webmail or ssl, but they say its include.
The only drawback, no irc bots or chat servers. So I cant host a Teamspeak on them, but they might offer it, I need to ask.

I also think you have to be a little technical savey if they are truely automated, you must be your own tech support.

I play on moving some domains from eskimo.com if this goes well for a few months. Im just hosting gamer guilds and forums on them.

Only snag I hit was ADOdb for phpnuke isnt installed by default, and I havnt spent the time to try to get it to install it its own directory.

If anyone has any info on 1and1, please post it, i didnt find much negative feedback on usenet.