Sunday, February 18, 2007

1&1 Internet Hosting

This is how it started. I started using 1&1 Internet Inc's hosting services not too long ago. It was such a good deal so I signed up a 6 month package with them. The service has been great. I rarely encounter any performance-wise problems as there is not too much traffic to my two sites and the sites were mainly used for my own website design hobbies.

My cousin wanted to start his own website as part of his school project. The problem was he didn't have a credit card to pay for web hosting. 1&1 had a promotion at the time so I lent him my credit card and he paid me back in cash. It was a 6 month contract, dated from Feb 12, to Aug 12, 2007. My cousin set up the account with his own gmail email account and had his own password to the 1&1 administration page.

I had my own account and he had his own account with 1&1, but I was getting billed for both. It was as simple as that. At $2.99 a month for 6 months, a charge of $17.94 on my card for my cousin's account.


Continue Reading: 8/20/2007 --- Cancellation