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1 and 1 Hosting Hosting Review

Plan Details

Plan Name: 1&1 Beginner
Price: $3.99
Disk Space: 10gb
Data Transfer: Unlimited
Domains Hosted: Unlimited
Hosting Services: Shared HostingVPS HostingDedicated Hosting

About 1&1

1and1 Internet Inc. has been providing reliable personal and business web hosting solutions for more than 10 years. 1and1 also offers VPS, dedicated server solutions as well as easy point-and-click set up of eCommerce web sites for those looking to sell his or her products and services.

One and One Hosting Plans

There are 4 web hosting plans that match everyone, from beginner to developer with the former having the least web space, monthly transfer volume, email accounts, mailbox space and comes with only 1 domain. Prices for the packages are competitive with the cheapest being $3.99 a month.

1 and 1 Plans:

  • 1&1 Beginner - for first time site owners
  • 1&1 Home - for those that are looking for more features than 1&1 Beginner
  • 1&1 Business - for small to medium businesses
  • 1&1 Developer - for businesses as well as web developers


You can easily upgrade your current plan by contacting 1and1's customer support.

Joomla Hosting Features

Unfortunately there is no easy way to install Joomla on 1and1 hosted domains. And since Joomla requires PHP or MySQL, a Linux hosting package is required because Windows hosting package does not support the two.

One way is to download and unzip the Joomla package. Then uploading content to your domain either by FTP or SSH. This method will take a long time due to the number of files and folders your domain has to create. Another way is to upload the entire zip version of Joomla, without unzipping to your domain directly and decompress the zip file through SSH. The problem is that only 1&1 Business and 1&1 Developer web hosting packages supports SSH.

For more details and instructions regarding Joomla installation please contact 1and1 customer support.

Customer Support

You can contact their customer support or sales assistance through email or by phone. Their sales and billing support hours are Monday through Friday from 8am to 11pm while technical support is 24/7. Their email response is also quick and able to solve or answer any technical questions within reasonable, if not always short, time frame.

Visit: http://www.1and1.com/ for more details.

Editor review

Full Featured Reliable Web Host

Overall rating: 
 
7.8
Price:
 
7.0
Support:
 
8.0
Features:
 
8.0
Uptime:
 
8.0
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Reviewed by Steven Johnson
March 15, 2009
 
Last updated: June 22, 2009
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
We have hosted several sites with 1 and 1 over the years. They seem to do a good job. Servers are fast and the uptime is good.

One drawback is the mysql server is not located on the same server and can require a little more set up than with a standard cpanel setup.

If you have an existing relationship with 1 and 1 they should do fine hosting your joomla site, if you are free to use a different hosting company and new to joomla and php/mysql applications you want you may want to look for another hosting company.

Summary
1&1 does a good job but there are lots of other great hosting companies that will make you life much easier.

Pros and Cons

Pros Lots of features and plans
Excellent Customer Support
Free Domain Registration
Cons Custom Control Panel
more expensive
A little more work to install Joomla
 
 


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Average user rating from: 1 user(s)

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5.5
Price:
 
10.0   (1)
Support:
 
1.0   (1)
Features:
 
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Uptime:
 
10.0   (1)
 
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1&1 is No Place for Advanced Joomla users

Overall rating: 
 
5.5
Price:
 
10.0
Support:
 
1.0
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Reviewed by Mark
December 28, 2009
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I have tried 3 times to use Joomla on my 1and1 account. They do NOT allow administrative access to the installation. So; you cannot modify CSS or templates. 1&1 is not a good place to use Joomla

Pros and Cons

Pros it's cheap
Cons no admin access
 
 

Visit: http://www.1and1.com/ to learn more.

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