Re: 1and1.Com Web Hosting

From: KerplunKuK (kerplunk_at_SPAMgreenday.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 11/23/03 

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 02:53:25 -0000

Not quite the answer you were looking for, but I use 1and1 and I can say
they offer me fantastic service at very reasonable prices. Sometimes they
are a little slow, but the price I pay reflects this.

<"<RemoveThisPrefix>AnyMail"@Gibbard.Com> wrote in message
news:3FC01C1E.BA7FD58D@Gibbard.Com...
> Saturday Nov. 22, 2003
>
> Hi,
>
> I've recently taken advantage of www.1and1.com's web hosting offer - 3
> years of free web hosting. It all sounded very good until after I got
> my account setup and I began logging into the administrative area. The
> logon procedure was taking a long time. I initially chalked it up to
> their servers were being overloaded because a lot of people were
> probably taking advantage of their generous offer. However, after
> looking at my Internet connection statistics during the logon procedure,
> I noticed that my "Bytes Sent" were exceeding the "Bytes Received". I
> don't mind that for short bursts, but this continued for wayyyyy too
> long without getting to the actual logon user name and password prompt
> on the screen. A lot of information was being sent from my PC. I
> really doubt that so much information had to come from my PC for their
> web services to present a sign-on screen. I tried recording the
> connection transmissions during the sign-on process (using CommView
> version 2.3), but was unable to decipher the packets - apparently they
> were encrypted.
>
> I am naturally suspicious whenever an offer looks to good to be true. I
> really can't believe the amount of information that had to be sent FROM
> my computer to setup a sign-on prompt screen. This should be
> investigated. I have some questions about how that should be done. I
> expect that if I can at least get a record of the file's being accessed
> while I'm going thru the sign-on process, I'll get a better idea of what
> information is being sent out of my computer. Does anyone know of any
> software that is capable of logging what information is being read from
> your hard drives - either at the byte level of at the file name level?
> Does anyone have any other suggestions for determining what information
> is being transmitted from my PC?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> All for now,
>
> Don
>

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