If you look at my post you'll see that I didn't actually slag off 1and1. The positive is the large amount of bandwidth you get and large amount of webspace. Many people go for this - not realising that they are higly unlikely to use more than a fraction of it.

The downside of that is that large hosts know that most people don't use their allowance and so "oversell" the amount of space actually available on a server and the amount of bandwidth they get allocated with each server. That's how you end up with so many sites packed onto each server.

As long as you don't mind slow support times and slow page delivery (a fact with 1and1) then you'll obviously be happy with what they provide. And they are streets ahead of Fasthosts (now owned by the same company as 1and1).

Vger