Today I upgraded the hosting package for all my websites. Up until now, everything was hosted for free. I signed onto 1&1 hosting my freshman year, and got a really sweet deal for three years of free hosting in what they called their "1&1 Professional Preview Package." After the three years (a little less than a year from now), I would have to pay $20/mo for that package. Thing is, since it was a preview package, they kept adding more and more to be included with the "Linux Developer" package. Upping the webspace, number of email accounts, etc. But my package stayed the same, and I was growing out of it so to speak:
Professional Preview Package
FREE Domains (.com .net .org): 0
Support: E-mail only
Web Space: 500 MB
Monthly Transfer Volume: 5 GB/mo
E-mail Accounts: 50
Mailbox Space: 50 MB
Mail Protocol: POP3
Dedicated SSL Certificate: None
Future feature upgrades: None
Virus Scanners: For 1 account
Spam Filters: None
But recently they offered me a sweet deal. I could purchase their "1&1 Premier Professional Package" which is the Linux Developer package but for only $9.99/mo (they give it a different name because of the price difference and because they only offer it to people presently signed up on the professional package preview). For $9.99/mo I now get:
Premier Professional Package
FREE Domains (.com .net .org): 5
Support: Toll-free Phone plus E-mail
Web Space: 30,000 MB
Monthly Transfer Volume: 1,500 GB/mo
E-mail Accounts: 3,000
Mailbox Space: 2 GB
Mail Protocol: POP3 or IMAP
Dedicated SSL Certificate: 1 Included
Future feature upgrades: FREE
Virus Scanners: For all accounts
Spam Filters: For all accounts
Also, that "Future feature upgrades" is important, because as they increase the number of gigs of one thing or another, I get it. Over the summer the Linux Developer package only had 4,000MB of web space with 1,000 1GB email accounts. Now it's up to 30,000MB of web space and 3,000 2GB email accounts. Pretty sweet, huh? Now I have to convince Max and Joanna to keep their 30GB porn collections off our server.

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