I think the data center is in Germany so I don't think any US law 
applies.  Makes one think about how this effects local companies, I'm 
sure it would have some effect nationally.  Free has it's draw backs 
when you look at the big picture.

Sam.

Ken Reilly wrote:

>>I don't know if this has been on this list yet but it was on another
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>>my LUG lists and I tried it and am finding it to be a great deal. 
>>http://1and1.com is offering 3 years of free hosting including web, 
>>email, and dns with lots of features and they don't even ask for a 
>>credit card or anything. I've been messing with it for about a week
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>>have found no catches and it is really very good. You can ssh in to
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>work 
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>>with files, you can have multiple domains, PHP, MySQL, multiple email 
>>accounts, 500Mb of space, generous bandwidth limits. Worth looking at.
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>>The deal runs out in a couple days so figured I'd mention it now.
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>Isn't this somehow illegal, the process of price cutting, or something 
>like that? Large companies can't under price their product just to 
>squash the little guys. Why would anyone choose another hosting company 
>when this is free for 3 years? That's a long time in internet years.
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>Ken
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>PHP TIP:
>You can view syntax highlighted source code of your PHP page with this
>function:
>show_source('filename.php');
>There is also a highlight_file() function.
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>Or you can save the file as 'filename.phps'
>Make sure your httpd.conf file includes the line:
>AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps 
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