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  1. #1
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    1and1. Are they having a laugh???

    Hey people. Have a look at this.

    This is 1and1 america.
    http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Hos...op&__lf=Static

    And this is 1and1 UK

    http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/H...op&__lf=Static

    According to conversions. The UK Site is same price. Why do they do this???. There servers are hosted in the same place.
    It even looks like the UK site does not even offer DATABASE SUPPORT.

    By the way im looking at there £1.49/$2.99
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    UK Hosting may be a bit more expensive, but when you have a company that large I'm sure you can work crazy deals to keep costs low.
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    although your looking at the basic package from the two sites, what is offered in the two packages is very different.

    Site - Space / B/W / PHP? / Email

    US - 10GB / 300GB / Yes / 600
    UK - 250MB / 3GB / No / 20

    the packages that compare are actually priced:

    US - $2.99 /month
    UK - £13.21 /month ($26.21)

    and its still got less space etc than the US package.

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    I was once told it was because hardware, bandwidth ...etc cost more in UK than US.

    Personally I didn't buy that. My opinion is the price is purposely artifically high to keep in-line with current UK market and status.

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    What gets me is they are hosted in the exact spot. Also what is really annoying is that the UK is much closer and the US

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    I just looked at the site. Anarchy is right. It seems as if they are really pulling a number on the UK. I think this is another case that they just do it because they can get away with it. Why sell low when you don't have to? Low prices are a result of competition that has a lower price.

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    as far as i know all the european servers of 1and1 are hosted in Germany, incl. those sold on .co.uk's. And their US servers are actually based in US.
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    Their prices on 1und1.de are lower than their prices on 1and1.co.uk and they're both in the German DC.

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    Laff...I should start doing that. Peruse the world currency rates each day and then put my hosting fees in whatever currency has the most favourable exchange rate for me on that day

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    Quote Originally Posted by eming View Post
    as far as i know all the european servers of 1and1 are hosted in Germany, incl. those sold on .co.uk's. And their US servers are actually based in US.
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    wtf???
    the 1and1 developer package costs close to 2.5 times more for the UK
    they're acting like n00Bs

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    Quote Originally Posted by viratshah View Post
    wtf???
    the 1and1 developer package costs close to 2.5 times more for the UK
    they're acting like n00Bs
    They aint acting, they are.

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    I dunno. Seems like a simple case of global economics to me. Just because something is worth $1 here doesn't mean it's worth $1 everywhere on the planet.

    I've seen untold number of posts from people in the UK specifically asking for UK hosting facilities. Seems like there's a demand for it...

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    Life is expensive in the UK, nothing new.
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    The simple answer is that they are doing it because they can.

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    The simple answer is that they are doing it because they can.
    Market price, all about market price. It's common in the states to sell 3TB space for 5 cents per decade, but that overselling joke ain't happening as bad in the UK. So they just have some competetive packages for each continent

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