After my recent interweb troubles, I have decided to move away from 1and1 and have chosen the hosting services of eUKHost - they seem to offer a lot more for a similar amount of money (after using a discount code).

The new set has around three times as much guaranteed RAM, 4x as much Burstable and almost 4x the bandwidth as before. (which I don't really need. yet.), two ip addresses as standard, and fast help, either as live chat or over the phone 24/7.

So far the new service has been excellent - they even transferred the data and settings over for me!

After the troubles with 1and1, this is a massive relief and I would recommend them very much for hosting.

This post is brought to you in conjunction with hotspot shield (because the access issues are continuing) and 11 heavens through which I found a simple fix the the bounding issues with the ablock theme.

According to the 11heavens link, Drupal supplies a css class to fix the bounding issues I was experiencing on this site with the current theme. I have now filed an issue for it to be fixed.

Apparently this site (and others I am hosting) are not available to a lot of people in the UK.

Problem seems to be focussed on the Virgin Media/Cable & Wireless network with time-outs taking place on the hop after atlas.cogentco.com.

VM are not accepting that the problem is on their end, which is bonkers as users of other ISP's can connect.

I myself am posting this using a VPN connection via Anchorfree's Hotspot Shield. (they deserve the free advert as they are saving my proverbial backside).