Dustin Brewer - Freelance Oklahoma Web Designer

I was getting lots of server errors on all of my sites thanks to 1&1 (1and1.com)’s horrible hosting service. The most popular was an 501 Server Error that kept happening. Not sure what was causing it but it was definitely causing my site to be unreachable. I sent them an email and it took them 7 hours to respond to my sites being down and they wanted to know what sites were affected even though I told them that it was affecting all of my sites and linked to the most important site in the email. Great customer service, right?

1&1 has awful service

Normally I could overlook something like this but it has been common for my site to simply go down and there is no notification from them or urgency in getting the site back up or even responding to my emails about it. I’m sure the sites went down more than I knew about. At any rate I would recommend anyone that is looking for cheap hosting to avoid 1&1 as it is awful and their customer service is even worse.

I’m working on migrating everything over so there will be a couple of things here and there that may not be working on the site as I complete the transition process. I should also have the new site up before too long.

So, lesson learned. Do not use 1&1 for hosting. Let me repeat, Don’t use 1and1 for hosting. They have horrible service.

I got several emails when I had published my new site design about how to style only the first post of the blog in Wordpress. This tactic can be handy to call out the very first post so that the readers attention is on the most recent topic for your blog. It is actually very easy, and may not be the best PHP in the world but it works perfectly.

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