I'm an 1and1 customer but I want to add a VPS on my current account and notice this plans are only for thoose located in USA and Canada. I'm located in Europe. Since I pay all my bills to them, this week they got 250 USD from me for my regular hosting plan and domains, I really hate to see that they don't treat equaly their customers. I really like this company a lot; I have sent them an email and if they don't allow me to get a VPS I will move to another company. I have recommended 1and1 to anyone and all my customers got an 1and1 package because of my recommandation but look at them now, they are racist to not treat all their customers equaly. I HATE COMPANIES THAT DON'T TREAT THEIR CUSTOMERS EQUALY!!!
http://www.google.com/search?num=10...cial&hs=s2l&q=1and1+hosting+sucks&btnG=Search You're better off. Their hosting has a MISERABLE reputation. But it's also just you trying to get a rise out of people calling them racist. I doubt even you believe that. Their chairman is named "Andreas Gauger" and I'm pretty sure that their company has strong ties in europe...they just don't want to host to people out there due to a lot of CC fraud and spam servers.
This is their reply: It's pretty clear for me that I will move all my hosting from 1and1. I REALLY HATE THEM NOW!!! 1AND1 is RACIST for me!
Not racism but the situation is worse if you are trying to get a merchant account or virtual terminal processing abilities. If you're looking for a VPS I can vouch for powervps, their support is excellent & they do business with customers from all regions.
I will give a try on 1and1.co.uk at the end of the month and see how things are going. already got a good deal from titahost, i will see. Thank you for pointing on 1and1.co.uk, didn;t thought for that. The only problem is that my customers are located in USA and I need a VPS in USA not UK...
There not racist lol I mean its a professional hosting company, they have one of the worst reputation on the internet
I think they are just practicing market differentiation and segmentation, I doubt it has anything to do with being racist. In companies, their eyes are on P & L and not on the color of your skin, they are only interested in one color - green.
It is nothing unusual for a company to have localized pages. The .co.uk has dedicated servers as does .de site.
Yes but my customers are from USA and the VPS should be in USA as it has to comply with the US laws not the european ones. dummy company anyway...
I don't think 1&1 is a racist company, thats does not make any sense. I personally use them and call them once in a while without any issues.
nethelp, thats pretty ignorant of your to go calling companies racist when you don't know the reasons behind it. If a company choses to only have server's located in certain countries/continents, and not offer it to other customers, it's their choice. And as this is a professional company, that choice would have been made on good grounds. And anyway, from what I can see on their order form, there's no problem ordering it from Europe (UK) or US.
When you step back and actually think about it, there's really no difference in what the company is doing and what you're doing by labeling the entire company as racist due to the decisions of management.
I would not call it racism. We are not in the stone age, I seriously believe we communicate with each other freely, and businesses do same. There is a fact, which is: A high percentage of Credit Card fraud from certain zones in the world -- Therefore they took the decision to not allow them to sign up. This includes the good, and the bad. But this is NOT racism. So it's pretty tough to use this strong word to a reputable company that just does not want fraud hassles.