Founded in Germany way back in 1988, 1&1 is now Europe’s largest web hosting provider, handling a mammoth 19 million domains spanning 70,000 servers in data centres across Europe and the US.
1&1 offers three general-purpose shared hosting plans. These start with Basic – £1 ($1.20) per month plus VAT for the first year, then £5 ($6.10) – which despite its name, has all the core functionality many buyers will need. That includes a free domain, unlimited webspace, websites or bandwidth, along with an SSL certificate, basic email (2GB mail storage only), automated installation of WordPress, Joomla, MediaWiki and many other popular apps, plus 24/7 phone support if you run into problems.
The Plus plan – priced at £4 ($4.90) a month ex VAT for the first year, £7 ($8.55) a month on renewal – improves performance by caching your site content in servers around the world, and doubling Basic’s RAM allocation from 600MB to 1.2GB. Access to 1&1’s SiteLock enables scanning your site for malware, security vulnerabilities, SSL issues and more. There’s also support for up to 500 MySQL5 databases, up from only 20 with the Basic plan.
The Pro plan – £7 ($.8.55) a month ex VAT for the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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