I've had constant issues with 1and1 over the years with their less than reliable uptime. At least one of my sites (which are relatively low-traffic sites) goes down once a week for an undetermined amount of time.
Has anybody had better experiences with other hosts? I've been thinking of trying out Linode lately..
I just came into a position where I inherited a site running on 1and1. Yesterday their DNS went down for a half an hour, that was a fun half hour.
I've never really had problems with HostGator or asmallorange. HostGator can be slow, but it's good value for the price, and pretty clean cpanel interface on the whole. ASO has good support and seems pretty snappy. (Of course I'm using an absurd amount of disk space on HostGator, mostly for backups.)
The biggest thing with 1and1 is what a huge mess their administrative interface is. Almost half of the space is ads trying to upsell you to their other services. You would think as a paying customer they could leave me alone.
I just recently got on with Linode for some personal projects and to learn a bit more about administrating a server. Can't recommend it enough. What an excellent service.
Has anybody had better experiences with other hosts? I've been thinking of trying out Linode lately..