Review of 1&1 Web Hosting
1&1 Web Hosting review of plans for business hosting and personal website hosting
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1&1 Web Hosting
1&1 web hosting offers four different web hosting plans to meet your web hosting requirements. From a business web hosting plan that can support most small businesses to a home web hosting plan that can meet your personal website needs, 1&1 has a web hosting service that will work for you.
Web Hosting Plans Available
1&1 offers four different web hosting plans: Beginner, Home, Business, and Developer. The Business hosting plan is most likely to meet the needs of the general website-building population. It has ample storage and data transfer space, supports most popular programming languages, enables e-commerce with SSL certificates, allows you to set up cron jobs, provides 50 MySQL databases, and more. We recommend the Business web site hosting plan for anyone looking to start a business web site.
Technical Specifications
1&1 web hosting plans range from 10 GB (Beginner plan) to 300 GB (Developer plan) of disk space and 300 GB (Beginner plan) to 3000 GB (Developer plan) of data transfer monthly, more than enough to meet most users' needs. A variety of website building tools are available with all plans, including:
- 1&1 website builder
- 1&1 photo gallery
- DynamicSiteCreator (with Flash)
- Dynamic content tools
- Click-n-Build applications
PHP3, PHP4, and PHP5 are available with all services, and every service except the Beginner level also lets you program with Perl and Python. 10 to 100 MySQL databases also available.
Media Support and Add-Ons
Differentiate your site from all the others using 1&1's site enhancement tools including software suites to help you add unique, interactive, and informative content to your site. Software suites include the following helpful applications and tools:
- PhotoImpact
- GIF Animator
- Ranking Toolbox
- Adobe Photoshop Elements (business & developer only)
- Adobe GoLive (business & developer only)
- ...and more!
1&1 hosting plans also offer helpful online tools like bulletin boards, blogs, classifieds, calendars, wikis, credits toward Fotolia stock photos, and more. Build a simple site or an extensive online community—all the tools are at your fingertips!
E-Commerce & Marketing Options
Build a shopping cart for secure ordering (protected by SSL), and use tons of complimentary credits to Microsoft adCenter, GoogleAdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Citysearch, and more to get the word out about your awesome new website. You'll be getting tons of traffic in no time!
Support
1&1 support is solid, but not always the fastest or most helpful in the business. Once you get your site up and running, though, all should go smoothly for some time! If you have the knowledge to build a site, you should experience few problems. If you have little experience, you may want to enlist some technical help to aid you in getting the best support from 1&1 and the most out of your hosting!