My ISP must be crazy...

[johno]

I've been using 1 and 1 Internet for a couple of years now.

Great service and they had reasonable costs when I first switched over to them.

Ever since I started with them, they have been steadily raising the storage and bandwidth limits and adding features (most I don't even use).

Today I got a yet another email saying they have raised them yet again.  I go look at the chart...

WOW!



For my $20 month, I get:

30GB of storage (yes, gigabytes)

***edit to fix a misread on my part***
1,500GB of bandwidth a month (as qdot points out, is 1.5 terabytes)

3,000 separate mailboxes
  each of which can hold 2GB of mail
  which does NOT count against the 30GB of general storage


...and looking at the Comparison/Summary chart, I see they now have "Beginner" account:

for $3 a month

5GB of storage
250GB of bandwidth

500 individual mailboxes,
  with 2GB of mail storage


***edit to add***

Since I've already gotten comments and emails from folks thinking of switching...
Disclosure: I'm just a customer of 1 and 1, but the link at the top of this post is my affiliate link and I would get some small commission if you order using it.

Comments

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

you get 1.5GB of bandwidth? That seems kinda chintzy - or is that per day, rather than per month?

I like my host - lunarpages.net - and I'd hate to move (ever an aggro) but what your host is offering is pretty good - particularly in terms of storage. I just get one wimpy GB for my site! Granted, it's not like I'm tight for space, but I can see it happening within the next couple of years...

[johno.livejournal.com]

I have a ever growing photo library up there right now, so I may need the storage, but even when I post a popular album (sf con, concert, etc) I don't come near my bandwidth.

If I do cross over the bandwidth limit, it's only $.49 per additional GB.

Looking at Lunarpages, they trade the storage for bandwidth.

{Sigh}, it's never apples to apples comparison is it?

[qdot.livejournal.com]

He shifted the decimal, a bunch. According to their page, it's 1,500GB, or 1.5TB. That's 5x what I'm getting at Dreamhost, and with as crappy as their service has been, I may think about moving.

[johno.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! You're right.

I misread it, then copied it as I misread it.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

MOTHER OF GOD!

Hm. Maybe I should switch hosts. 300GB of storage and 50GB/day bandwidth would be rather nifty... Hrmm.... I'll have to go look at the small print, I think. My current contract isn't up 'til August, but it never hurts to look.