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by moreentropy 1595 days ago
I'm using a Ionos (oneandone) VPS S: https://www.ionos.de/server/vps

1&1/Ionos is one of the largest and best connected ISP and Hosting providers in Germany, not some small shady shop. I see they doubled the price to 2€ though :)
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wackro 1595 days ago
I made a WordPress site for a friend through Ionos's managed offering. After a couple of months of the site being up, they decided to detach the database for literally no reason. I had to go through support to get it back up. I'm guessing it got erroneously flagged as over its quota, but they couldn't explain why it happened. Just my experience.
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sirsinsalot 1595 days ago
I've had nothing but hell from 1&1/ionos ... if your billing has issues, be prepared to be treated like a criminal with few paths to easy resolution.
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littlecranky67 1595 days ago
To be fair, whenever you pay 1-2€/Month for something, you cannot really expect human/timely interaction. Paying a single support employee to look into your case for 10minutes already erases all revenue from the past years from you.
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Datagenerator 1595 days ago
Also, ain't this the introductory temporary price for the first six months?
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moreentropy 1595 days ago
Currently, it is. The "S" offering is at 2€/month long term. I'm still on a "S" contract that stays at 1€.

Can't complain about 1&1, also had dedicated 1HE boxes there for a long time w/o issues but I understand the grief in case something goes wrong.

I host DNS elsewhere so I can relocate such a simple proxy within a few minutes, that's what my desaster recovery plan looks like.

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foxfluff 1595 days ago
Seems to be a common theme with all the "big" hosting providers. Especially if they offer cheap services. They have an abuse problem so they set up automation to deal with it and they don't care about collateral damage; you're just a number, and not worth their time. Actual proper support costs more than race to the bottom allows for. Same deal as with Google et al, one day you might just get fucked.

Turns out finding a good, reliable hosting provider who isn't a tyrant and gives you the benefit of the doubt & treats you like a human when something's up is really really hard. And probably not very cheap. It's kinda sad that one could host all kinds of interesting things on a $5 device like raspberry pi zero, but then you have to pay out of your nose -- twice, and every month -- to get proper internet access.

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