With all the troubles I’ve had with hosting plans throughout the years, I’ve always wondered how to avoid those same problems for a second time. Of course, I’d love to avoid them for the first time, so I Google them first. No, not the problem, but how to avoid problems doing something “odd” with my service. Let’s say I want to do something really strange like cancel a server or hosting service. I know, it’s way out there, but please bare with me…I ask the Service Provider what I need to do, after starting with the on-line FAQs, help, forums, etc. and they say go to this “special” site for canceling service. OK, it must be “intuitive” or they would have given me more details, right!? The stand-up comic in me wants to draw this out to its proper conclusion…lots of laughs; but the software developer, architect, infrastructure novice and business owner in me wants to lend a hand.
What Problem was actually resolved?
There are way too many scenarios to list in one sitting, but I can probably link to them from here later, or answer specific questions in comments if I see them. But my most recent issue was due to the fact that I wanted to upgrade a 1and1.com VPS account to one that was half the price I was paying (for 3 months…and I highly recommend this.) That wasn’t the deal maker though. More...
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