Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Junk fees in AT&T landline service

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Like many people, I find myself using less and less of the land line phone. A few years ago, I reduced my land line with AT&T from the “unlimited local” service to “measured” service. The current AT&T bill amount is $15.01 a month.
When I examine the bill closer recently, I find lots of fluff and [...]

Moved my web hosting out of 1&1

Friday, August 21st, 2009

1and1 (1&1) webhost is increasing the hosting fees by 40% from $4.99 per month to $6.99 per month. I made good on my promise to transfer my website out. I have moved the website to Arvixe Personal’s Class hosting which offers “unlimited storage and bandwidth” and includes one domain name registration. I made a one-time [...]

1and1 web hosting hiking fees by 40%

Friday, July 24th, 2009

The current web hosting service that this blog is hosted on (1and1.com) has given me notice that they intend to hike the fee by 40%, from $4.99 per month to $6.99 per month. They were even pleased to announce this to me:
We are pleased to unveil the new 1&1 Home Package with more web space [...]