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Recently I've had even more problems with my hosting provider. Seems my POP server went down and I can't get the thing restarted. I don't know how to restart it, even though I do have shell access. I can't get them to respond. At least webmail works. And the mail coming into the domain is fine - it's just that blasted POP access that is causing me grief.
So a little gong went off in the back of my head, reminding me of that 1-and-1 account I had signed up for a while back. Don't recall who pointed me that way, though at 3 free years, I sure owe them some thanks.
Anyway, I moved my newest domain (sorry, not currently accessible) over to their servers, and in an hour or so, the DNS changes had propagated and I was back in business. Very cool. I started the change for Everitz Consulting after I had a chance to play with it and make sure everything looks good. That one's still in progress at the moment.
Once all is said and done, I'll probably move this site there too, as the renewal date is just about up, and I don't really feel like paying for another year of shoddy service from my current provider.
Thus far, I've been pretty impressed with their tools for setting things up. Seems to be a robust solution. Plenty of POP mailboxes, loads of forwarders, lots of space, no bandwidth worries in sight in the near future, and best of all, it seems to work great. Of course, everyone has troubles - so we'll see how they do when it comes to that. But for now, I'm happy. Hoping it continues to go so well so I can get out from where I am now - the fact that it's completely free is just a bonus!
If anyone happens to be familiar with setting up subdomains at 1-and-1, or setting up redirection, please fill me in. I'll need to do both somewhat extensively to move this site there, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
