I really, really need to get off of 1and1 Web Hosting. These guys are either playing amateur hour something fierce, or they think their customers are really stupid. To make a long story short, I’ve been looking for a hosting provider that will promise that I can run SVN without having to give out SSH logins to the box. You know, SVN over HTTPS, the it was intended to run. They are either so expensive I would rather just get a VM, or they won’t commit, which means they don’t offer what I want. Fine.

Today I noticed that 1and1 was advertising Git support. (Look under the “core features” section). Much like SVN, Git is a version control system, but it’s designed from the ground up to be distributed and decentralized, so unlike SVN, it doesn’t have a need for a central server.

So, I log into my 1and1 package, setup a test repository, and quickly discover that you have to use SSH to use git in any form or fashion. And 1and1 only provides a single SSH account for your system. Which means to use a distributed – that is shared version control system, you have to use the single SSH account…

Stupid is as stupid does. What I’m wondering is why I’m still using them.