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Alas - I've finally convinced them that the moving of my blog on my migration doesn't work and most likely won't work as expected. 1&1 offered to let me out of their contract, which would legally bind me to a six-months-minimum period. However, since I was never able to import my existing data into their framework (a stripped-down wordpress installation with a preinstalled and a separate, individual MySQL database) and never really got my blog to "fly", they finally gave in to my request of getting out of the contract and not having to pay for the amount of time so far. On that last part they were unbending and want me to pay for the 2 months I've been "using" their platform. Oh well, I'll just have to write this one off as "life experience" and agreed on that arrangement. After all, it's not worth it going to court over some 60 Euros, isn't it? However, the result of this experience is: You may well have a blog at 1&1 using Wordpress and MySQL as long as you start over from scratch, meaning I'd have to enter any post, comment, picture and whatnot manually. I don't think this is the original idea, when Wordpress clearly has an export and re-import functionality. Why 1&1 took exactly that plug-in away from their Wordpress-installation... well, you're welcome to leave your speculations on that below in a comment (and mind you: I HAVE installed a separate wordpress-installation WITH the export-/import-plugin - and that's exactly how this "experience" came about...) P.S.: This matter has come to an amicable solution: They let me out of my contract early and I don't have to pay. Immediate conclusion: Perseverance seems to pay off.