1And1

I had 2 servers at OVH and Dedibox that were in complete redundancy (files, MySQL, web, mail, DNS) with DNS failover. No longer having the same needs, I wanted to reduce my server costs while keeping a server whose system I could manage. I signed up for the dedicated server offer from 1&1. Well, I can tell you that I regret it. Basically, at 1&1 you get 4 GB of “available” memory and 1 GB of “reserved” memory. It’s a bit like Orange’s “unlimited” which is actually limited. The available memory is there “sometimes” and you can’t even specify that you don’t want it. And the reserved memory, I have the strong impression that it’s not actually reserved. ...

I’m really displeased with my 1And1 virtual server. I took it because I didn’t want to spend time on some potential disk failures. And since the Oct, 19 2009 2:00 AM, i’ve seen my load average totally exploding. I guess the disk was totally busy with an other virtual server. I called them and they did a really awesome test : the PING test and even the web page test. I tried to explain them that this wasn’t the best way to test if the server was working, but well they told me that maybe I just messed up my configuration. ...