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Date Added: 6/25/2009
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Reviewer: windychris
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Service Description
1&1 is one of the biggest hosting companies with over 7.7 million customers globally and with over 2,000 employees. The company was founded in 1988 and is run by CEO Oliver Mauss. 1&1 also offers other services such as domain registration, email hosting, virtual servers, ecommerce packages and website development tools. They’ve received awards from FindMyHost.com for Editor’s choice, Hosting Review for Best Hosting and Kubus.net for Best Windows Web Hosting.
Detailed Overview
One of the most popular and well-known web hosting companies is 1&1 (or 1and1). They have been around since longer than most hosting companies and is known as the industry leader. While 1&1 offers many different kinds of services, today I’m going to talk about their shared hosting, which is their most popular service and service most important to Internet marketers.
Probably the greatest benefit of choosing 1&1 as a hosting provider is their price. They are known to be one of the cheapest hosting providers with their cheapest plan being $3.99 per month. Their price is the biggest reason why so many people decide to go with 1&1, but the truth is that you should choose a web hosting for your specific needs.
1&1 offer both linux and windows hosting. They have their own control panel installed called Plesk. I found this control panel easy to use, but I am a bit biased and wished it was cPanel. cPanel is the most intuitive, feature-rich and easy-to-use control pane,l and I was a little disappointed to see that it wasn’t there. They support Perl, PHP 5, Cron Jobs, SSH, Python, Ruby on Rails and more.
1&1 really excels in their site building tools. They have your standard website builder, a tool for posting photo galleries, a tool for adding flash to your site, PDF2web converter tool (great for turning documents into web content) and even a tool to design your own t-shirt/apparel. They’ve also recently added RatePoint, which is a 5-star rating system that allows your customers to give feedback.
With their hosting, many communication tools such as their blog setup tool, email marketing tool, RSS tool, chat rooms and a live chat customer service tool. They really took the initiative to overdeliver for their customers with many tools you normally have to pay for. They email features are standard with spam features, email forwarding, 600 email accounts (for a basic package), webmail and with IMAP & POP3 support.
Another area 1&1 shines is their dedicated servers. They have so many different choices that will appeal to everyone, and they updated their servers with new hardware. Their prices are very fair, but you can find cheaper fees if you look around. The advantage of using their service is their reliability and hardware.
Here are 1&1’s pricing structure for their shared hosting:
Beginner: $3.99 per month, 20 domains, 25 subdomains, 10GB disk space, 300 GB bandwidth, 10 SQL databases 1 FTP account (huge negative). No Perl or python support, no cron jobs and limited tools.
Home: $2.49 per month for 6 months then $4.99 after, 50 domains, 100 subdomains, 120 GB disk space, 1,200 GB bandwidth, 25 SQL databases, 10 FTP accounts.
Business: $4.99 per month for 6 months then $9.99 after, 100 domains, 200 subdomains, 250 GB disk space, 2,500 GB bandwidth, 50 SQL databases, 25 FTP accounts, with access to most of their tools
Professional: $9.99 per month for 6 months then $19.99 after, 200 domains, 600 subdomains, 300 GB disk space, 3,000 GB bandwidth, 100 SQL databases, 50 FTP accounts, and access to all their tools.
The negative aspects of their plans are the huge limits on the number of SQL databases and FTP accounts. The best plan will either be the Home or Business as the Professional is too expensive, and the Beginner package has too many limitations. Their plans also lock you in their service for month at a time.
Let’s move on to their customer service. They have a 24/7 toll free phone number you can call. You can also email for support. It took me a little longer to reach their customer service reps than other major hosting providers, but their staff knew what they were doing. 1&1 also provides really good tutorials which can help you solve your problem and set things up which are very helpful. 1&1 also state 99.9% uptime figures and based on third party reviews and tests, they come very close – ranging from 99-100%.
Reputation
Overall, 1&1 is a solid hosting company, and I can confidently recommend their service. However, their limitations on bandwidth, diskspace, FTP accounts and SQL databases may not make it the best choice for some marketers. They do not have the best customer support, but 1&1 provides really good tutorials which can help you solve your problem and get set up.
They offer a 90-day money back guarantee and 1-5 free domains depending on the plan. They also offer vouchers for Google Adwords, Yahoo Search, Microsoft Adcenter and Citysearch with all plans. The added perks are great, but if you’re looking to use a lot of scripts, want to host unlimited domains, want unlimited disk space, and need multiple FTP accounts, you will probably have to look elsewhere.
Domain "Whois"
The Whois information for a website lists the owner and their contact information. The Whois information for "1&1 Web Hosting" is public which is generally a good thing. This indicates the owner of this site has nothing to hide.
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Market share point, it's small business internet solution
I have purchase website from 1and1.com. He provided me unlimited hosting and 6 GB space for monthly transfer volume. But most important thing is that he provides you 90 days return guarantee. It means your investing money is safe until you get satisfied and he also provides you 24 hour EMail and online support. This company also provides maintenance of your web hosting. So he provides you a quality and
stable solution at very effective cost. My personal experience is that I am happy to adopt this product. He provides me good service as well as maintenance. So my website is running successfully and I just want to thank the company for providing me good services.
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A good hosting service
I have been hosting my website using 1 & 1 Web hosting since 2 years. I have had no problems using this hosting service. Even though many other hosting providers offer much disk space I am not willing to move on because I find good bandwidth & great customer service here. So guys all around, those ever who want to get hosted their website try this one. It's my sincere recommendation. It is one of the better hosting services.
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by budugu on July 29, 2010 at 10:31 AM CST
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1and1 is great!
1and1 is great web hosting company.
I always try to keep my website safe, and this web site does it for me automatically, and that all for just a great price.
for that price you have enoguh features, it's realy worth you money!
but there are quiet a few other hosting companies that are offering the same packages with more disk space, more bandwidth.
still is this one of the best web hosting company I found meaby there are some better, but if you bought this one, you're not
missing much.
they have good customer service too if you have any problems just ask them.
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Web host for personal use
I've used 1&1 now for a good couple of years and I've not had anything to note about in terms of problems. The only time when I had a problem, which was more trivial than anything (had to make sure all my emails were getting forwarded to a single address) they were more than happy to help.
Based on my experience I'd recommend them to others especially considering their pricing is more than reasonable.
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1 & 1 Web Hosting gives great service
I first became aquainted with 1&1 through an online business I had in early 2003, and a friend told me about buying domain names and having them point to my cookie-cutter website that the business I had gave me. I did not know much about domain registration or even buying domains, but the customer service at 1&1 was really great. They even took the trouble to explain a few things to me about domain forwarding, and even how to choose good names. I remember a few times, when I called their customer service line, I was on the phone for a half-hour to forty-five minutes. I didn't use all of the features on the site that they offered, but I was impressed with their customer service, knowledge, ease of use and 24/7 support, which made my decision to go to them in the future very easy. I wasn't even aware of their reputation before I used them, So this is a very unbiased opinion.
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by ceejaay on July 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM CST
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1&1 Web Hosting is FAIRLY Good
I have used 1&1 Web Hosting to make multiple websites in the past. The website is sort of plain, although they do have some nice features for FREE users. The most interesting part I think I ever thought about this website is that you can get 1 year of website hosting for FREE! Most typical internet web hosters only leave your website online for around 1-3 months and then you have to start all over. The cons of 1&1 Web Hosting are the prices are too high, and the support for their website is lame. If you have questions about anything on their website, it takes them anywhere from 12-24 hours to get back to you about your issue. All in all, the service is good, just a few things I do not care for.
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by NextGen on July 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM CST
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This helped my private server!
I play runescape private servers, and this helped me host one of my own! For a cheap price, I could have everything I wanted on my server! I disliked nothing about this web hosting service! I got my server up in one day! this really helped me out, and I'm looking forward to running my server!
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Good, but can be much better and cheaper
1&1 is a good web hosting site but is slightly expensive as compared to other hosts. There is not much difference in quality of service which others provide, but it's expensive as compared to others which give you the same service at a cheaper rate. I feel due to the high amount of competition in web hosting it is very difficult to analyze which host is better and which is giving you more at a cheaper rate. So I feel 1& 1 is a good web hosting site but could have been much better and much cheaper than the current rates.
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Great Hosting
I have to say the main reason I joined 1&1 hosting was because of their free hosting for 1 year. But that's whats great about it is that it's prices are pretty good and that no other site had an offer like that, not even host gator. Other than the 1 year offer, it had good and stable hosting as well as security. When my friends need hosting I usually tell them 1&1 for their good prices and good offers. When my hosting expires next year I will know who to go with and it's 1&1 hosting because of it's great hosting.
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Good but you can find better prices
I have used 1&1 Web Hosting once in the past. They are great at everything they do except for a few things. The few were that the prices were ok but you can get better prices at other hosting companies that also offer more options. Also there nameservers were slow ,it would take a long time to point my subdomains else where and have them be updated. All in all a good starting company, not the best for a large scale site.
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The product is good and cheap too
1&1 Web Hosting is a superb product that is very easy to use, they give a one on one tutorial on how to use it and one can even call their customer service free if there is any problem. I have received a number of calls from them wanting to know how I am progressing with the product. The disk space is awesome 120Gb for just $2.49 per month, incredible. I started with beginner to try the product but now I have upgraded to the home, I would have gone for business or professional but since I don't need a larger space and the space on the home stage is even too much for me, but I had to upgrade to it because of some features here that are not on the beginner stage. I will recommend this product to any body that wants a cheap and easy to use web hosting.
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Easy and User Friendly for n00bs
One of my very first websites was hosted with 1and1 web hosting. 1and1 is an affordable web hosting service that is great if you need to get a site up and online really quickly. 1and1 makes it very simple and easy for you to set up a website or new Wordpress blog. However you will run into limitations if you plan on doing any bulk domain changes, because with 1and1, everything is 1 by 1.
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Good features and services
1&1 provides users a very friendly control interface and simple to use panel, especially when compared to other well-known web hosts. Since I needed a domain name fast to start promoting it and decided to purchase one at 1and1 : being a web developer who has experience with many other web hosting services, I am aware of the fact that a good customer service which responds correctly is prominent and 1&1 Web Hosting has it. Also, I only pay $7 and then I got 6 months free access. Their hosting also includes extra features such as a flash website builder. For all these reasons, I strongly recommend 1&1 to anyone out there.
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by starlion on May 20, 2010 at 9:09 AM CST
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Not the Best but Good
I have been using 1&1 webhosting's basic plan, and I am a bit happy with the Service. The only problem with the company is that the nameservers take too long to update. The price they provide is affordable and can be used to build up a basic site, but I wouldn't go for 1&1 webhosting if I had been working on a professional site.
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by a3royal on May 10, 2010 at 12:30 PM CST
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Best of the best
I love their Cloud Hosting. Not that many companies providing real cloud hosting. The service is not cheap but it’s worth every penny.
If you are taking online business seriously, you should go for their cloud hosting. Up time is great, support is 24/7 and always there to help you. As far as I know there are few hosting companies to provide CPanel with Cloud Networking. Simply the speed to your sites will increase in numbers.
In the beginning I was suspicious but now I’m extremely happy with my decision. If you are in the eCommerce, you should switch to them. The tools they provide are awesome and everything works as described. There are neither hidden costs nor obligations. Their knowledge base has every answer to your question. You get what you paid for.
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Pretty Good Web Hostting
I bought their hosting package. And I really like them because their package is very cheap. The basic package is only about $5 each month and they offer more storage space then I need. I have not had any problem with the servers. Their performance is faster then other web hosting sites. They also have an affiliate program which can be easily earned. They were easy to get started with and set up was easy. The domain registration was also easy. On the other side, the customer support was great. When I ran into a problem, I called them and my problem was fixed right away. The only downside is sometimes the hassle it takes to somewhat navigate throughout the site, so if this is your first time it might take a little bit to get around, otherwise this is a great one. I recommend this to all people.
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Best hosting you will ever get
Have been using 1&1 hosting for quite a while now and I have to say that I am extremely satisfied with their service. Their support is pretty good, the employees happily reply to all your questions within a day. They also provide tools to help you build your website which is a very nice extra feature to have. I was amazed by the price, this is probably the best price I've seen for hosting ever. I was also very satisfied with their servers, I've never had them go down at all. This is the best post you can get, so I would highly recommend it to anyone that wants to make a website for a fraction of the cost. I am very content with 1&1 and I am going to continue using their amazing and fast services. This service is a lot better than many others because the price is cheaper and the servers are always up and running.
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by go123 on April 26, 2010 at 2:40 PM CST
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Very happy with this service
I've been using 1&1 hosting services for a year and a half and I'm very happy about it. Their offers are cheap and the service is good. I started with the beginner package as I was launching my website. This was great but maybe a little limited. For those like me who need more storage space and more subdomains I strongly recommend to upgrade for the business offer. It's really enough for me.
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by respinosa on April 22, 2010 at 12:17 PM CST
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Excellent service
I host a gaming website for my team, and I came across 1&1 Webhosting. I saw their extremely low prices and immediately took a jump on it. I am in no way disappointed in their service as their servers are up 24/7. I asked a few visitors from my site to rate my site based on many criterion, which included website stability, and speed. Out of all the users I surveyed, over 90% rated it a 10 out of 10. This of course proved to me that this webhost is just purely awesome. I’m very satisfied with this product and will continue to use them as a webhost provider.
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by Elmo on March 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM CST
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Support is not helpful
I have used 1&1 hosting in the past and had little to no problems. The servers were up all the time and luckily I never had to contact customer support with 1&1 hosting.
I'm not going to bring names into this, but I personally know a video blogger that has used this for his main website. He woke up one morning to a hacked website. It wasn't the website design that was faulty, but it was the hosting that was the problem. What the attackers did was contacted support using false identity, or better known as "Social Engineering", and gained access to all accounts under the hosting and domain.
I wouldn't recommend this hosting to anybody just because of this experience.
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Stay Away, very far away from 1&1 hosting
1&1 customer service is severely lacking. I would have to make several calls to resolve one issue. You have to be persistent and know what you want them to accomplish for you when you have a problem, this will of course be hard for a new user.
In addition, I didn't like the fact that you can't pay for a full year of service in advance. They insist on charging you a monthly fee. And yes you better look at your bills carefully - mysteriously things get added to your bill that you didn't ask for. Then of course you have to do battle with the billing department.
Cancelling the service was a complete nightmare - I think they make it so hard on you so that you relent and keep the service. And the really special part is them sending you to collections for a bill you are disputing.
If you don't want headaches, stay far away from 1 & 1!
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A really great hosting service
I have many webprojects and because of that I need a good web hosting service. I am fond of 1&1 Web Hosting - they are doing great job for me. For my blogs I use the Wordpress platform and 1&1 Web Hosting offer free and fast installation of it. The control panel is very easy to use and I got used to it for less than an hour. The uptime of the sites is almost 100%, the space and bandwidth are more than enough. And all this is coming with acceptable price - there are different hosting plans for everyone. If you are searching around the Internet for an excellent host, I recommend you to try 1&1 Web Hosting.
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by bikerboy on February 13, 2010 at 9:42 AM CST
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Worst web hosting company
1&1 is by far the worst web hosting company. It is impossible to cancel your account; they will continue billing you even if you cancel your account. Do not host your site with 1and1 web host because it's customer care service is terrible. If you host your site with 1&1 than you should check your invoices regularly because they often bill you for stuff that you have not purchased and also take care to purchase a new domain name from them either. When I try to move from this horrible host provider, they locked my account and take $40 charge to get back my domain name and they forced me to host my site with them. This web hosting company is terrible. Don’t waste your time and money by hosting your site with 1&1.
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by martin79 on February 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM CST
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Fast approval, lowest prices, Most Features
I found this great niche and needed a domain name fast to start promoting it and decided to purchase one at 1and1 as recommended by my affiliate training program. I have purchased domains before from GoDaddy and found that you can .com domains at 1and1 for 25% less. What was more surprising is that I live in the little island of Trinidad and Tobago down in the Caribbean and was doing my normal day job and was wondering if my new domain was processed and ready for hosting by the time I reached home. My cell phone rang and a rep from 1and1 call to tell me that my domain name was completed and was ready for hosting to me that is real good customer service.
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Best Web Hosting Service
This site is quite a bit more expensive than it's competitors, however I have sworn by them for about 3 years now. As a website creator, I need my visitors to be happy with the domain registrars that I put them in touch with and 1&1 Web Hosting always helps me with that. They have user-friendly and easy to use customer service. After I bought some domains I had some questions. They were answered within one hour. The site itself is also very user-friendly to navigate. With many services like this you have many choices, however with 1&1 Web Hosting you get what you pay for, and this site offers first class service that I cannot fault.
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by Locksley on February 9, 2010 at 9:47 PM CST
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Good Hosting! Great Prices!
I run several websites and I have to say of all the different hosting programs I have used, 1&1 is one of the best out there. I personally use it to host a blog, and would recommend it for any home users, perhaps looking for hosting for a blog and for small to medium sized businesses. The prices for their hosting packages are great and uploading and updating a website is an easy task with this company. Having said that, if you are looking for hosting for large e-commerce sites or corporate websites then this hosting probably isn't for you, as there are better all in one solutions for those purposes.
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Great Web Hosting
I have recently bought their hosting package. And I really like them because their packages are very cheap and their servers are from USA and I have never had any problem with the servers. Their performance is faster than the other web hosting sites I have gone through. They also have an affiliate program which can be easily earned. I just loved them as they are new we should at least give them a try. I suggested them to everyone who wanted to host their web pages for very cheap cost. They also have many coupons. I have surfed the net and found many coupons.
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Really Affordable
I want say it is the best web host on the planet. Before subscribing to 1&1 Web Hosting I was using a free web hosting service but I was facing the problem of low disk space. One of my friends told me about the 1&1 Hosting and I decided to go for it. Now I'm using Home Package at $4.99 per month and as compared to other web hosting services it is really cheap. I have not found any difficulty in uploading files from filezilla and also in updating website. I think if you have a registered domain then you should first look at their hosting plans. I hope you will be satisfied.
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by payhigher on February 7, 2010 at 9:12 AM CST
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Positive experience
The website was cheap enough to give it a try. The basic package is only about $5 each month and they offer more storage space than I need. They also let me buy another domain and use the same space so I don't have to buy two separate accounts. They were easy to get started with and set up was easy. The domain registration was easy but the FTP was a little difficult to get use to.
I left my other company due to bad customer support. I figure anything can go wrong anywhere but when things do I want to know someone is working on the problem and values me as a customer. This company does offer the customer support I need and they do not charge extra for it.
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by JaLeanna on February 5, 2010 at 11:48 AM CST
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Reliable but slow!
1&1 is a pretty reliable webhost, but I have one big gaping problem with them. Their nameservers and domains take HOURS to update. Changing nameservers requires patience like none other. On an upside, they do offer free domain privacy which is something not all registrars do for free.
I'm recommending 1&1 on a "B" grade because of this. It's cheap, reliable, but takes hours to update.
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Low cost, great service
I'm using the "beginner" package, and I got to say, it's great. They also have great customer support. When I ran into a problem, I called them and my problem was fixed right away. The 1 & 1 Site-Builder is great and easy to use. Everyone I recommended 1 & 1 to loved it too. I give 1 & 1 a 9/10.
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by Iamazn on February 4, 2010 at 12:32 PM CST
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My Experiences
First, the pricing of this website is pretty decent, I got the basic one and I currently only pay $5 a month for a lot of storage and traffic. I also have two domains that come with it and they worked well.
The setup process was super easy and it only took a couple minutes to register a domain. The FTP is a good setup too, a little hard to get started but not really that bad.
The Customer Support is also pretty good as well, I had to call them a couple times when my website was hacked and they restored my website to a full backup within the day.
The only downside is sometimes the hassle it takes to somewhat navigate throughout the site, so if this is your first time it might take a little bit to get around.
Overall for the $5 price tag I would give this site an A because of my personal experiences.
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I am Happy with 1&1 Hosting
I have been using 1&1 Hosting Home Package at $4.99 per month for more than one year now, and I have to say that I am satisfied at this moment with 1&1 Hosting. I have a website monitoring service (Internet Supervision) that reported only one downtime incident. I got the first six months free and two free domain names, I only pay the setup fee of $9.99 to start. Every time I need support they responded quickly and with right to the point answers. I also like the fact that with 1&1 there are no long term commitments to get a low monthly payment hosting plan.
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by joss on February 3, 2010 at 8:48 PM CST
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Happy to join, Low Cost
I've been using the $6.99 Hosting plan for a few months now, it is free for 6 months.
1&1 Web Hosting is amazing, good support, friendly, all questions are answered in a timely manner, hosting is cheap, and the uptime is great. I think 1&1 Web Hosting is a recommended hosting service.
I gave B for good support and low cost. I'm so happy.
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1 of 1 users found this comment helpful
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by phukerd on February 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM CST
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The best host you can get for you webpage
Well, I can say 1&1 provides you a nice host for your webpage. I say this because in the past, I bought 1&1 Business for the webpage and I had no problem with this. It provided to my webpage a lot of web space, which I really needed. Another nice thing that 1&1 gives you is the chance of making your own webpage very easily with the tools they provide you, it was really user-friendly and you could make a nice webpage just with this tool. Finally, I have to say that the support is excellent, you can ask them whatever you want by email or phone, they'll answer you in no time and they don't stop helping you till you've solved the problem you had.
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2 of 2 users found this comment helpful
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by Nitraxis on February 3, 2010 at 1:44 PM CST
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Good for domain's
1and1.com has best offer than other domain companies. It provides free domain privacy with domain name. Domain privacy are usually charged extra. Domain at 1and1.com are also cheap. I usually register domain names at godaddy.com but this time just to try I registered one domain at http://www. 1and1.com , I was able to register domain at 1and1.com but it took more than 12 hour to register worldwide. Usually registering domain worldwide takes at least 48 hour. When compared to godaddy.com it takes 1 to 2 hr to register domain worldwide. I would say 1and1.com is best for domain, I don't no about hosting because I have not hosted any website at 1and1.com. I would say go for 1and1.com.
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4 of 4 users found this comment helpful
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Very Good Service!
I've been using the $9.99 Hosting plan for a few months now, and the quality of speed, space and bandwidth was amazing...
They answered all my questions very quickly, and I had my website transferred from my old Server to the new very easily and quickly. Changing nameservers for my domain name was quick and easy too, it took only a few hours to get my Domain name working with my new sever.
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5 of 5 users found this comment helpful
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Really good host
1&1 Web Hosting has been very good to me over the past few years. The only issue is when I need to speak to someone about billing or another customer support issue, it fall in there bankers hours time periods. I was very happy with their service, and I beat the heck out of their developer plan until I needed more. I was getting error 500 all the time, I was sending too many requests to their servers and it was just blocking the hits. I could not handle missing any traffic pointing towards my sites. I was very happy with them as a small to medium traffic site, but with a high end site like the picture hosting service I run now it is almost not worth it, and I needed to go with a VPS or dedicated host to handle my requests. I also did not like that you have to turn on PHP5. By default PHP 4 is on and I didn't like that. I just want to know that my scripts are running and not dying. Also there is a 100MB limit on your MYSQL databases, so trim your databases or you will see some loss.
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4 of 4 users found this comment helpful
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1&1's General Service
1&1 Hosting is very cheap in comparison to it's rivals, this was my main attraction to the site and have had no regrets in registering and using this product.
At first, I started with the slightly smaller Beginner package at $3.99 which gives excessive disk space and bandwidth for the price. However, as my website popularity increased rapidly, I found myself needing to opt in for the higher Business package at $4.99 per month. This was very helpful to me as this also provides python support with more variety of tools to play around with. The business package also had a staggering 2,500GB bandwidth that is more than enough for my website, even with the enormous size that it is.
Customer service is great and there is always a real human being willing to help when I found myself stuck.
So, would I recommend 1%1? Absolutely, the price and quality of service is unparalleled to it's competitors.
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6 of 6 users found this comment helpful
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by vinoth123 on February 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM CST
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Nice hosting service to go for
Yes I agree this is one of those hosting services to be trusted. I have hosted one of my domain with them and they are really good, I can not remember any moment they went down or probably I was not around to observe that. Anyways, good hosting company with nice price package, recently you can host there for free in the first three months after which you start your payment. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a reliable web-host service. However there are some nice web-host I am also using that are cheaper than this particular web hosting service, so you have lots of choice. But my advice to anyone looking for hosting service is that you should observe what other users have said about the company before going with them.
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6 of 6 users found this comment helpful
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by Gabken on January 31, 2010 at 9:10 PM CST
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Good service, low cost
Having had experience with 1&1 before, I found their service to be of good quality, at a low cost.
With the beginner package only £1.99 a month, including a free domain, a reasonable 250MB of disk space and 20 email accounts with spam filtering, I would call this a good service for something like a family website or a small company.
However, 1&1's support doesn’t stop there, if you are a top of industry company, they offer their professional plan, which includes unlimited bandwidth, 8GB of web space, 10 free domains, 3000 sub domains, and 3,000 email address', with unlimited aliases. This would be adequate to cater for more or less all large companies.
This shows that 1&1's service can supply from the smallest of family websites, up to large buisness', looking for a reliable web host.
They also offer VPS and dedicated server hosting, where more than web hosting is required.
I have never had a problem with 1&1's uptime either, and have never had to use their support service.
Overall, a 9/10, as I could not find any options for Plesk or cPanel support.
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6 of 6 users found this comment helpful
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by HashDev on January 31, 2010 at 6:38 PM CST
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A great web hosting company - for a long time
First of all, what attracted me to 1&1 Web Hosting at first was it's price. It's unbelievably cheap, and with it's awesome hosting domains, and how professional it is, no one can reject. It's probably why 1&1 Web Hosting has been around for so long.
But what makes it shine is the sites it brings you and how easy it is to organize. I have used other domains which don't give you ANY freedom, meaning that you are limited to only using HTML and other functions; 1&1 Web Hosting gives you a full control panel to work with, which makes it work like an operating system. It's easy to use for beginners too.
The support though, is really slow, probably because of how many people use 1&1 Web Hosting, making people with problems frustrated. I once had a problem not being able to access the control panel and they replied within 2 weeks, which is a very long time. It was a slight waste of money, so watch out for that.
Overall, it's the best web domain hosting site right now, and has been for years. I hope they fix the support issues.
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6 of 6 users found this comment helpful
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Only one negative point
I have registered only one domain at 1&1 web hosting. The offer they provide with domain is very good, that is domain privacy. Usually we have to pay extra for domain privacy. But 1&1hosting provides domain privacy completely free, I was very impressed with their offer. The next thing I liked about 1&1 hosting is it's price + you do not have domain transfer fees, you can easily transfer your domain to 1&1 hosting with no charges. The only thing I hate about 1&1 hosting is time consumed to register domain world wide, It took more than 12 hours. I was really angry ! . I have more than 20 domain in godaddy.com and I have never faced any problem. I would rate 1&1 hosting 4 stars.
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5 of 6 users found this comment helpful
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by GilbertB on January 31, 2010 at 6:19 PM CST
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Excellent features and service
Several years ago 1&1 had an offer that allowed you to sign up for their executive level hosting free for six months and then at a reduced price afterward. I signed up two accounts, one for my personal website and one for my business website. I was extremely impressed with the wide array of features they provided, like multiple databases, FTP accounts and unlimited subdomains. On the rare occasions that I had to contact support for help they were always prompt and professional. Overall their product and support was top notch and well worth the price when I had to start paying for the service.
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6 of 7 users found this comment helpful
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1&1 Web Hosting Top Notch
1&1 hosting is the best hosting I have ever had for any of my websites. Minimal downtime, great support, and all questions are answered in a timely manner. I have never had a problem with this company and have always been satisfied. Would recommend this hosting to anyone and I will not be going anywhere anytime soon with my websites!
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5 of 7 users found this comment helpful
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Good Prices, Terrible Support
Everyone consistently raves about how 1&1 has such great hosting plans... and they do. I'm not going to discredit them on things like that, but it's the support for 1&1 that kills me. Their support for hosting is terrible. I've tried emailing them, calling them, instant chat... everything! It takes more than 4 days for them to respond, and half of the time the information they gave me was incorrect, which is terrible on their part.
Unless you know everything you're doing with webhosting, and coding, and setting up things, then I don't recommend 1&1 for your use. They are great for deals, and their uptime isn't too bad either, but it's the support that made the deal for me. It simply could not work.
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7 of 8 users found this comment helpful
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Cheap for beginner hosting
All I can say is that 1&1 provides users a very friendly control interface and simple to use panel, especially when compared to other well-known web hosts. All important host functions are arranged and put on the same page so the learning can be done so easily in just only a few minutes. Being a web developer who has experience with many others web hosting services, I found it very easy to navigate the panel and use FTP function to upload my client's site. However, the customer service responded to me in almost up to 2 days. So I think some aspects of the process could be better thought out.
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6 of 6 users found this comment helpful
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Amazing, Easy to Use Web Service
This is an excellent web service. So far, I have made three websites with 1 and 1 web hosting and they have turned out excellent. With no usage limits for the sites, you can make excellent business sites for as little as 3 dollars a month. From my experience, even these little packages have everything you need to make a website. Their hosting also includes extra features such as a flash website builder. The only negative is that the smaller packages do not allow you to edit the html code of websites manually, and you are held to some design elements you may not want. But you can still make excellent custom websites.
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7 of 7 users found this comment helpful
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by drnotes on January 29, 2010 at 10:38 AM CST
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Great service for beginners
I have used 1&1 for hosting small sites. The signup process was quick and I was up and running very quickly. They offer domain specials (for example when I got my account, I paid $2.99 for the first year for . us domain) all throughout the year.
There was no outages or issues with the hosting portion. However, their control panel can be overwhelming to a novice user as for some options you really need to dig it in. Also when it comes to canceling accounts, it was not readily available under the control panel. I had to go through FAQs, find that I need to go to cancel. 1and1.com and proceed through there. Interestingly, one of my cancellations was fine, whereas on the next one I had to fax them for authorization. Why, they never told me.
As for the other services, such as Microsoft Exchange or VPS hosting, I cannot recommend them. There is many more reliable companies out there that offer cheaper service with more features.
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6 of 6 users found this comment helpful
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by palmop on January 29, 2010 at 10:36 AM CST
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Awesome, I love it!
I just used this web-hosting recently but I must say that I'm really grateful that I've found this service. I've chosen the home package and the price was really cheap. I only pay $7 and then I got 6 months free access. This is probably the cheapest web-hosting service ever. Moreover, there's absolutely no traffic quota for any package so this service absolutely outmatches those that still have monthly traffic quota.
This service will also give you one free domain to .com or other so you won't need to pay extra money for buying a domain. The Sitebuilder is also a great feature of this web-hosting service because it's very easy to use and it doesn't require any experience in web designing at all. I don't know why this review says the disk space limit is not satisfying because I find 150GB disk space to be extremely big for $7 package. After all of those great features, I would rate this service A++.
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5 of 5 users found this comment helpful
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by Avaxier on January 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM CST
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