Finding The Worst Domain And Hosting Company To Review Is Not That Hard – Enter 1 And 1 aka 1&1

If you are reading this post you most likely were looking for a good hosting company, or maybe you thought you found one in a company named one and one / 1and1.com / 1&1. They go by several name spellings. Well you did not find a good domain registrar or web host in 1 and 1. Far from it. You have without a doubt found the worst. Possibly the worst since the beginning of the internet.

By now you must think that I am joking and in all truth I am not. They are so bad in fact that its kind of humorous. In this post I will tell you how to find a good host and the warning sings not to ignore.

1. Do a better business BBB search for the host you are looking at. (By the way 1 and 1 hosting has the worst I have ever seen in any company. They have an F rating last time I checked with over 1100 complaints. yes you read that right eleven hundred complaints.)

2. Do a Google, and Bing search for their name along with the term review. While this is no guarantee of a bad business, you can weed out the bs posts to see if this is where you want to spend your time and money.

3. Check out hosting and internet business related forums where customers voice concerns over business practices and online reliability of the service they offer.

Now to my story about 1and1.com.

I have been with them for a little over two years using them for domain registrations. I tried the hosting thing but that went sour almost immediately as the service was just not compatible with other companies hosting programs. Managing the site with them was a chore non stop. Nothing was easy. Tech support was in another land, and their minds were on another planet. You were on your own. Nothing about the server interface was intuitive. So I bailed on them in a hurry for a virtual server elsewhere.

On the domain front. Managing your domains was an equal pain in the a**. Interface was just weird. Now comes the fun part. Billing hell.

First I kept getting bills for payments that were already made. It was like the billing department had no communication at all with the credit card processing department and vice versa. No matter what it will take many days to weeks to get it ironed out. You never speak via email with the same person, so they have no idea whats going on. Like starting over again and again. ITS GROUNDHOG DAY!!!!!!

Ok now it gets worse. I decide to bail on this never ending nightmare that is 1and1.com. They make it hard to leave by not approving transfers or making authorization codes hard to find and their favorite, not unlocking domain when it clearly says on your screen that it is unlocked. Yup you're  trapped. More customer service ping pong. Then they do a mass renewal hit for multiple domains. Nice trick huh.

But wait it gets worse again. I turned off auto renewal on the domains that I had to make sure they would not sneak in more billing before I could get my domains away from them. They ignore all non renewal and don't charge my card any more settings and wham. Hit you with un authorized charges over and over. More customer service ping pong and they dont see anything wrong with charging customers for renewals that the customer did not approve. They did this five times to me, and here is the worst part. When you get to the point where they no longer refund your unauthorized charges by not responding to emails anymore and do a charge back on your credit card. They hold any domains you have hostage until you sign a form saying that you have them approval to charge your card for the charges you did not approve. Yes thats right. They ask you to lie in writing so they not only get to keep the money you did not authorize them to take, but you agree to pay them an extra $20 per incident. Now is that crazy or what.

Please do yourself and your sanity a favor and stay far far away from this company. It appears that the only reason this company is still in business is from a huge advertising campaign, and that customers do not research 1 and 1 until they experience the inevitable problems.

As of this date they are still holding my domains hostage. And you guessed it I have to go file another charge back with my bank credit card for another un authorized charge that came the next day after complaining to customer service about the previous un authorized charge. ITS 1 AND 1 GROUNDHOG DAY!!!!!!

1 And 1 Internet, Inc.

Phone: (877) 461-2631

701 Lee Road, Suite 300, Chesterbrook, PA 19087

www.1and1.com

How To Delete A Google Blogger Blog Or Account 2013

So you want to delete a Blogger Blog. Well they don't make it easy do they. I had to do a lot of trial and error and here is how you go about doing it. I had an old account with almost the same name as my current blog and it was confusing for me and everyone else.
Log into Blogger using your Google Account. 

From your Dashboard (that's the area you see right after logging in that lists all your blogs) find the blog you want to delete. 

Click on the Other link on the left, which will be on the bottom.
At the top of the screen, just under the tabs, you'll see a choice of three links. One is to import blog, second is to export blog, and the third is to delete blog link. Click on it.
Confirm that you want to delete it, and your selected blog will be gone.


If you've got posts on the soon to be gone blog you want to preserve, you should use the Export blog link just to the left of the Delete blog link before you delete your blog. You can either download your entries to your desktop or export it in a format that can be imported into other popular blogging formats. Don't worry if you screw up, Blogger gives you 90 days to undo what you did on purpose or by accident.

Carter Hargrave On Real Self Defense From Young To Old

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Martial Arts Teaching Anniversary

I was going through some old rank certificates and suprised myself. This week I have been teaching martial arts for 21 years. I didnt think it was that long ago. Time flies when you are throwing punches, and lasts forever when you are getting hit.

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New Jeet Kune Do Video

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBKaojJv6D4&w=560&h=349]Here is the latest Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do Video from Carter Hargrave

Dont Forget To Support Wounded Warriors

The Wounded Warrior Project or WWP was founded to help our soldiers in all branches of service who have suffered injuries during military service.
One of thier cool programs is the Soldiers Ride.
Soldier Ride is a WWP initiative that provides rehabilitative cycling opportunities across the country to help wounded warriors restore their physical and emotional well- being. It’s also a wonderful opportunity for the public to participate in a cycling event that honors the men and women of our military who sacrificed so much. Soldier Ride offers the public a chance to ride alongside as our warriors promote their positive message of recovery. The event raises funds for WWP programs and initiatives that ensure this generation of wounded warriors is the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded warriors in our nation’s history.

Go online and search the WWP website and help where you can.