Illegal immigrants can not use 1&1 internet
I was browsing through 1&1 internet reviews, and came across a post in one of the forums suggests that you need to provide your passport copy and very very personal information in order to sign up for their services, sounds like 1and1 has become the online police department.
So out of curiosity I had a look in 1&1 internet privacy policy, where I found no mentions regarding to passports. That's why it is time for us to focus on the problems, pros and cons.
Problems
Not receiving validation email, You should get it right after you sign up, otherwise check your spam filter first, if still not, well, wait for a while and contact their support, for vps and dedicated may take up to 5 days to set up.
other problems are not really problems, such as how to set up joomla, wordpress, all you need to do is to use an ftp client such as filezilla, if you don't know how to do it, let me know, I will make a video on that.
Pros
Good variety of hosting plans, shared hosting, vps, dedicated servers etc. The starting price is surprisingly low for dedicated server, only $49/month, as for shared hosting and vps are pretty much the same as many other hosting providers.
I like the sound of green hosting, it feels like that we are helping to protect the environment as we are building our sites.
90 day money back guarantee (does not apply to dedicated), while most of the hosting companies offer only 30 days.
24/7 support which is pretty standard with all the big hosting companies, although I am a big fan (my surname is Fan too, and I am big) of live chat support, which is not available.
Cons
The account cancellation in 1&1 internet can be tricky, many customers had complaints on that issue, so read through their policies before you purchase 1&1 internet hosting plans (that applies to any other hosting companies)
Even though 1and1 and many other hosting companies provide a free domain when you sign up, but unless you are just testing it out and don't care about the site much, don't use the free domain provided for your site. I think we can all afford $10 for a domain name.
Conclusion
Don’t decide whether to register for a hosting account with 1&1 internet or not based on what I have just said, as I always suggest do more researches before buying any hosting service, and that will save you a lot of headaches and nightmares in the future. Watch my video “how to find a reliable hosting serviceâ€, and don’t forget to order hosting services through my links, because you will get a nice gift, actually a few. Click to see what you will get
How to find a reliable hosting service
As customers, we can only hope that we will find a reliable hosting service, which will meet our expectations. Reading reviews is helpful, but first we will need to find a resource of reliable hosting reviews.
In the video below I will show you one of the best resources for finding reliable hosting services and real user reviews.
Have you watched it?
Hopefully that helped, and let me know how I can be more helpful.
EasyCGI review: is it worth your money
Before we go in to EasyCGI review, let's take a look at what are the key features in easyCGI vps hsoting,
Data centers located in Boston MA
30 Day money back  guarantee
One IP address included in the hosting plan
Linux debian OS
Plesk control panel
RAID
Starting price, $49.95 monthly billing or $39.95/month yearly billing for 20GB disk space, 256MB RAM and 500GB per month data transfer.
So fat EasyCGI hosting does not offer windows vps
Pros
Since easyCGI runs on linux debian, the OS / Operation system, the system is solid, although one may argue that since debian is operated by vonlunteers, the Debian OS don't usually contain the latest softwares, however, this should not be a concern for vpshosting.
The RAID storage feature is another good thing to see in easycgi hosting, basically raid has the best data backup functionality, though one thing to keep in mind, no matter what system the vps hosting companies are using or how reliable the vps providers are, it is always good to back up your own data.
Many hosting companies, especially vps providers would charge an additional fee for adding a control panel such as plesk and cPanel, easyCGI has included plesk in their vps hosting plans.
Control panel and software tutorial is definitely a good thing to have.
Cons
Even though, debian is a solid operation system, it is good to have more choices, such as centOS, ubuntu, for more experienced users.
I have come accross a few other vps hosting companies that include 2 dedicated ips, where as easyCGI only offers one.
Since I constantly in search of vps hosting companies, I am not too excited about their customer support, I will tell you why in a sec, but first I will show the conversation I had with there sales staff via live Chat.
"P: Hi Dawei. My name is P (don't want to show the real name here), how are you today?
Dawei: Hi . 2 questions, first , I was trying to register for an account on linux vps x. and saw the free domain with qualified plans, what does that mean qualified
P: Could you please provide me the exact URL of the page from where you have entered the Live Chat?
Dawei: easycgi.com
Dawei: sorry, this is the one https://secure.easycgi.com/register/registration.bml?flowid=8&masters=694
P: Okay.
P: You can find the VPS base hosting package by going through the URL at:
P: http://www.easycgi.com/easycgi/vps/linux-vps-compare.bml
Dawei: so if I sign up for linx vps x. will I get a free domain,
P: Yes, Dawei "
Here are the reasons
1. I only needed to wait for 3 seconds before the chat started, so what am I complaining about ? wait, here it comes, Once I finished typing in the questions, it took them about 30 seconds to come back to me, and instead of answering my question, they first had to ask where I entered the live chat, and I know one thing for certain, if I didn't answer that question, they will never answer mine. so here's a question comes into my head, "if the customers are more important, why didn't they answer the customers questions first ?"
2, As you can see the questions were pretty straight forward, and yet I was sent back to the page I was previously viewing, if I wasn't how would I know it was linux vps X?
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Conclusion.
The vps hosting package seems to be good enough for small business site, and it is risk free since they offer a 30 day money back gurantee. More importly if you want to keep you data safest possible, ask them if they have SSH, this applies to any vps hosting. Ok , so that was my easyCGI reivews, but  don't take my word, do more investigation befoere you decide on buying any vps hosting services, because one person's review does not really mean anything.
Important: if you buy any hosting services via the links provided on my site, You will get a nice bonus (check it out here),
Do you need an SSH for your vps hosting ?
What is the definition of SSH ?
SSH is the abbreviation of Secure shell. When you are looking for a vps hosting company, you often see SSH being listed as one of their features or add on features. So what does it do exactly?
Over view of SSH
So far SSH offers the most secure file transfer and remote logins to your hosting server over the Internet. Your connection via SSH is encrypted. It is not possible for a regular hacker to break into an SSH connection.
Do you need SSH for your vps hosting account
SSH is commonly used for transmitting credit card details, tax information, banking details, or personal information to a server, so that means if you want to keep your information as secure as possible when you are accessing your vps servers or any other servers remotely, SSH is a must that your hosting company has to offer.
Types of SSH
Most of the hosting companies run on SSH, however there is a securer version of it known as SSH2, unfortunately many of hosting providers have not yet offer that.