I read a lot of reviews about 1and1's great uptime...I don't get it! That is NOT my experience.

I have been hosting with 1and1.com for 9 months now and several months ago I noticed the my site was unavailable for short periods in the middle of the day. I became conserned and started monitoring my URL. The first month I monitored 1and1.com posted 97% uptime. What makes that figure even worse is that I am only polling my URL every 30 minutes.

I sent many emails on the subject and they told me that I was wrong and that the problem must be on my end. I know this is not the case because I get complaints about my site being unavailable from people all over the world. What's more, I work for an online database provider...if we are down there is big trouble.

Polling every 30 minutes 1and1.com posted an unimpressive 97.859% uptime with 75 recorded outages between August 11, 2005 and December 31, 2005. I wonder what these numbers would look like if I were polling every 5 minutes?