mbm mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop allegedly wrote:
Bytemark and ContextShift would be the first ones I'd look at for such a service. I'm not a big fan of 1and1 and I avoid fasthosts. [...]
(Why the antipathy towards 1and1?)
Because I've used them and helped move clients away from them, which they make more difficult than other providers (with the possible exceptions of Network Solutions and Fasthosts, in my experience).
Also, I've recently noticed that 1and1 seem happy to leave customers paying no-longer-offered uncompetitive rates when they reduce their prices or add to their packages - a sharp practice taken from the banking sector, perhaps - and quote introductory offer prices rather than long-term rates - telecom's favourite sharp practice.
Battle-scarred,