Limited Time Offer - Free Professional Webhosting

1&1 Internet is having a prelaunch special on their website offering a free professional package for three years. Features include:

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Website/Connectivity:
Hosted on I/O optimized own 1&1 Linux version
500 MB web space
5,000 MB/month traffic ($0.99 per GB for additional traffic)
No limits on simultaneous hits/bandwidth
Protected by firewall
Continuous backups of your website
99.9% Uptime guarantee

Website features:
Advanced live site statistics, log files, ready-to-run CGI-library, own CGI programming (Perl, Python), FrontPage 2002 extensions
Advanced Password Protection
5 FTP accounts
PHP3 & PHP4
MySQL
Proxy SSL Secure Server
Cron Jobs
SSH Secure Shell Access
Advanced Developer Tools

CRM/E-commerce:
WebElements
Newsletter Tool
One-on-one online dialogue
Turn-key web database applications
Chats
Forums

Domain names:
Register or transfer .com/.net/.org/.info for just $5.99/year
50 subdomains (e.g., shop.yourDomain.com)
Point up to 100 external domain names to 1&1
Applications:
F
ree template loaded online WebsiteCreator
Free full version of Fusion 7, search engine registration, ranking, optimization
Total software worth $300
1&1 Control Panel

E-mail handling:
50 POP3 e-mail accounts (50 MB each)
Catch-all e-mail addresses
Auto-responders, unlimited forwarding.
1&1 Advanced WebMail
Symantec virus scanner

Support:
1&1 Express support by e-mail

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I signed up for this last week and in moments I was hosted. You do need a phone to receive your 4-digit PIN code, but this was too good to miss out on.

Check it out here:

http://order.1and1.com/xml/static/HostingProfessional

Sign up here:

https://order.1and1.com/xml/order/EnterAddress

nice find GG.. thanks.. I'll check into it myself and a few of my friends will appreciate it too

I hope they don't pull anything funny. In the contract when I was reading it they said you may have to pay a setup fee but it may be refundable.

Another note, how long is the agreement for, can you drop them after three years?




Thanks,
Adiz

Promotional FAQ

That should answer all those questions you have adiz. And the Licence Agreement has in it close to where it talks about the set up fees that for the promotional deal there isn't any set up fees and all fees are null for 36 months.

Thanks GreekGoddess,
I just signed up for a sight that I will be creating in a little bit.

I did notice in the Licence that if you don't use a registered domain name there will be banner adds for 1&1, but so long as you point an actual domai name to it, that shouldn't be there.

Anyway,
thanks,
Dhej

GG I signed up you should be earning some commission or something. Now, I need to figure out what domain I want to transfer....HMMM....Anyway thanks
Dhej...


Adios,
Adiz

I don't think I earn any commision on a free site...lol

I have a question. i run apache on one of my home computers and do not have a domain. If I were to host a site for someone the address would be my ip/~username. Could this person if they already owned a domain just have it forwarded to their address on my server? I wanted to know because I could host a couple of peoples sites for free if they wanted me too. They would have to be fairly small. Also, does an ISP frown upon customers hosting websites from home due to heavy traffic, or would I risk getting dropped by my ISP? I currently run a site that probably gets about 20 hits a month due to no domain, and those 20 hits are from me and maybe 2 other people. Anyways if anyone is interested in having me host their site, and it doesn't get too much traffic PM me.

p.s. I'm by no means a professional hoster, but I would do it for free with no adds and hopefully it wouldn't kill my computer(PIII 930Mhz, 384 MB RAM). I also have PHP 4.3.3, and mySQL 4.0.15.

ISP's generally include in thier user agreement a clause which prevents you from serving anything of any kind, such as web of FTP servers. Some scan regularly for them, but most don't. They just investigate when bandwidth becomes unusual and give you a warning. But generally, no, you can't host a webpage with residential intenet access.

Thanks Striek, so if I were to host a website that actually used some bandwidth I would probably be contacted by my ISP? They couldn't kick me off without giving me a warning first could they?

h3r3tic - ISP's are a crazy bunch when it comes to messing with their bandwidth.

I was setting up a server with a T1 line a firewall and a router (the whole nine yards). Well someone on one of the client computer had SQL server running on their machine (it was before I got the firewall up to set permissions. And he was sucking 1.72mb a sec. That is insane. Needless to say I was contact immediately. The great thing about T1's is (or at least what I did) was told them I was going to be using it as webhosting they gave me 125 ips along with the possibility of extending them to 255 free of charge. I mean true I was paying 700 a month for the bastard.

But as far as a cable or DSL if they have it in their contract that you can't host any high traffic sites they most likely will either warn you or shut your service off until you call them and figure it out.

Thanks,
Adiz

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Originally posted here by h3r3tic
I have a question. i run apache on one of my home computers and do not have a domain. If I were to host a site for someone the address would be my ip/~username. Could this person if they already owned a domain just have it forwarded to their address on my server? I wanted to know because I could host a couple of peoples sites for free if they wanted me too.

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There are various ways to set-up up so that this would work. I currently have my address pointing to my service. You could use Virtual hosts or there are also scripts out there to look at the incoming domain name and redirect it to the appropriate directory. These are ways of having mulitple addresses point to different locations.

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ISP's generally include in thier user agreement a clause which prevents you from serving anything of any kind, such as web of FTP servers. Some scan regularly for them, but most don't. They just investigate when bandwidth becomes unusual and give you a warning. But generally, no, you can't host a webpage with residential intenet access.

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While most ISPs do from upon it and it is in the AUP normally that you won't run a webserver, it is still possible to host one. I've been running my own server now for a lil over 3 years on 3 different ISPs as I've moved around and non of them have said a word. My mail server they had issues with, however they don't allow me access to any SMTP servers other than their own. Usually if it's just a small thing, especially with the amount of traffic that the average broadband connection sees, they won't have any problem with it.

Thanks HTRegz, I tried to set up an smtp server once, actually several because I wanted one that I liked. Most worked except when I would try to email my account at my isp, it would give me some error about coming from a residential area. So I guess most ISP's have filters to not allow email from smtp servers on an unknown users machine. Also, some would not allow relaying, even though I was sending from the ip the smtp server was on, wouldn't that not be relaying. Oh well, that was just a past experiment that I tried because I wanted to have my own email account hosted by me. I even tried a few pop3 servers, but I'm pretty sure most wouldn't work, although I don't know why. Maybe I should find a tut on hosting your own mail server. I'm pretty sure I'm ok though as far as running a web server from my home machine. If someone would like to test me on this I would be glad to host their site for free.

I want too!!!!!! But no option for people outside US and Canada???? :'(

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Originally posted here by Tinks
I want too!!!!!! But no option for people outside US and Canada???? :'(

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Same here, although I already have a reseller account in the UK and I probably wouldn't use the 1&1 package really.

well i emailed them about the whole only US & Canada thing and this was their response

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Thank you for your email.

I do apologize for taking so long to get back to you.

Unfortunately, this offer is for residents of the continental United States and
Canada only. Thank you for your interest.
There are no known plans of extending this promotion to any other part
of the world at this time.

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no fair >_<;

v_Ln

how about if a person inside the USA signs up for you??

could do but you gotta give them a home telephone number and they call yoiu with an activation code - so is a bit much to ask someone :)

v_Ln