1and1 Review

Host Website: http://www.1and1.com

Equal importance is attached to the design of website and the web host who hosts the site. A website represents you/ your-company in the virtual world (internet) and a good web host is what drives it. There are several things that you need to look for in a web host and this is not limited to the hosting plans that they offer but also the reliability and customer support. Let’s check out one of the famous hosts “1&1” and see what they have on offer:

About 1and1.com

1&1 are one of the leading web hosting service providers. They have received quite a few awards (as their website indicates) and claim to be the world’s biggest and fastest growing host. Their website looks quite attractive indeed. Everything is quite organised and explained with great deal of clarity (and this is something that starts building your confidence in the web host).

Hosting packages from 1and1.com

This web host offers 4 shared hosting plans: 1&1 beginner, 1&1 home, 1&1 Business and 1&1 Developer. The price varies from $2.99 to $19.99 per month from Beginner to developer plans. The web space ranges from 5 GB to 250 GB.Monthly transfer volume quota is in the range of 250 GB to 2500 GB and the number of email accounts varies from 500 to 3000. Several bundled softwares and tools like search engine tools, website builder, photo gallery, control panel, front page server extensions etc are included. 1-5 domain names with private domain registration are included. 1&1 is also throwing in marketing vouchers with above plans for Google Adwords, Microsoft adcentre and City Search.

Another good thing with 1&1 hosting packages is the email space. You get 2 GB mailbox space on all the packages and several email accounts; but there is a limit on the combined overall storage quota across various email accounts e.g. for beginner package there are 500 email accounts but the total email space is limited to 25 GB. Daily back-up of website and firewall protection are couple of other attractive features.

Reliability

1&1 claims to provide 99.9 % uptime guarantee. This is, in fact, quite a good figure for a web hosting service. They have a 25,000 MBit carrier class connectivity which is monitored all the time in order to meet the 99.5% uptime guarantee and also for ensuring that the loading time for websites is less. They also have partnerships will number of other providers around the world for this purpose and they claim to use latest hardware too. So, the whole arrangement does look reliable.

Customer support

1&1 also provides support in multiple ways (and the best part is that support is available 24/7). The two main support channels are email and phone. However, there is another facility that is available – it’s called Netviewer. Using this facility you can get online assistance from one of their customer support representatives. This is something that is really useful. If you don’t like the hosting service you can put to use the 90 day money back guarantee (that is provided by 1&1 on all hosting packages)

On the whole, 1&1 looks quite impressive.

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