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1&1 Webhosting launches better online visibility service for SMEs

1&1 Webhosting launches better online visibility service for SMEs

German ISP and webhosting provider 1&1 has launched a new service for SMEs enabling their visibility and searchability on the internet. 1&1 List Local enables SMEs to add their contact data in up to 25 online search engines, apps, map services, yellow page directories. Before SMEs starting using List Local, 1&1 offers them a free online check of their visibility. The service is available in Basic and Pro, costing EUR 19.99 and EUR 29.99 per month respectively with Pro offering the possibility to add another office/location to the service. Customers signing up for Basic before 31 October pay EUR 9.99 per month.

Comparison & Experience With Both of 1&1 Hosting vs. HostGator (Part II)

Comparison & Experience With Both of 1&1 Hosting vs. HostGator (Part II)

Performance

A web host’s primary purpose is to serve up your website files as quickly and as reliably as possible whenever a visitor navigates to your URL. All reputable hosts guarantee 99.9% uptime (in other words, you may have about 1 hour of downtime per year). Both HostGator and 1&1 claim that their internal metrics match those numbers.

There’s always going to be a lot of anecdotal evidence either way. Customers for 1&1 often claim that they have had significant downtime. A lot of HostGator customers experienced a day’s worth of downtime when they switched data centers in August 2013 (my sites weren’t affected, but numerous others were).

It’s tough to make judgments on future uptime based on the past for all web hosts – since even Google and Amazon do go occasionally. So, I’d say that both are going to give you solid uptime (but always make sure you keep your own backups), and look at things that you can measure – like delivering your files quickly.

There are a lot of variables that go into how quickly your website can load – but the factor that you can specifically look at to gauge host performance is time to first byte (TTFB) – again, there are a lot of other factors, but this is the only one you can distinguish from website setup. This is a measurement of how long the server takes to acknowledge the request and start returning files.

In other words, if you walked up to a counter and asked someone to go into the back of the store to grab a package, TTFB would be how long they just stood there before running into the back of the store.

Additionally, “Speed Index” is a metric that gauges all the other factors. In this case they are apple to apple comparison since I have identical WordPress setups going on. Again by that metric, HostGator has significantly better performance than 1&1 hosting.

Comparison & Experience With Both of 1&1 Hosting vs. HostGator (Part I)

1&1 hosting is one of the oldest and biggest hosting brands in the world, while HostGator is one of the fastest growing web hosting companies in recent years. I wanted to compare 1&1 Hosting vs. HostGator specifically after receiving several reader questions about the 1&1 brand (mainly b/c 1&1, like GoDaddy does a ton of advertising).

With site test (and most of my others) runs on HostGator hosting (see HostGator’s plans here), and I’ve had the opportunity to use 1&1 hosting (see 1&1’s plans here) with several client sites, in addition to a recent side project that uses 1&1 hosting. After using each for quite a while, here’s my experience with how 1&1 and Hostgator compare on pricing, features, performance, usability, and customer service.

Pricing

Comparing web hosts on pricing is always a bit difficult since they try to make sure the comparison is never apples to apples, when really they are all selling the same thing.

For price comparisons, I try to keep the 3 D’s straight – domains, databases, and disk space. When it comes to shared Linux hosting (which, unless you know otherwise is probably going to be the best fit for you). Those are the 3 features that you are really paying for – everything is else is nice, but can’t really be compared directly.

Domains is the number of domains you can point to your hosting account. Depending on the exact account – you could have unlimited “websites” that live all on 1 domain. You could have blog.domain.com along with shop.domain.com and support.domain.com – each would be distinct site but all on the single domain.com. HostGator’s cheapest account (Hatchling) allows 1, as does 1&1’s two cheapest (Starter & Basic). Both their mid-tier options are unlimited.

Why 1&1 hosting Is Trustworthy And Among The Best Webhosting?

You also get PayPal integration. The best web hosting companies are those that tailor their plans to their clients requirements and offer the customer the option of adding additional bandwidth or e-commerce tools as their site develops. Another important question is to make sure they are not a reseller and actually own and manage the servers your site will be hosted on. Learning more about web hosting is necessary. It is the address with which people will find your website. The web host's software is proprietary and is owned by the web hosting company, If you are unsatisfied with their service, it may be extremely difficult or impossible to transfer all your data to a new host. We are also providing domain name registration, domain name transfer and domain name renewal services. Locating a web host that offers great technical support for a reasonable prize is not very easy.

Unless you are a computer system professional or a web guru, when the time comes to pick a hosting supplier for your new internet site you will definitely desire to pick a host that offers cPanel. However, you need to keep in mind that the resources are shared. A website should provide a clean interface for the user. How many visitors will you be expecting? Learning the technical aspects of web designing is important till a stage but after that creativity holds the key to better web designing. What happens is that the server is partitioned into multiple servers. The best web hosting companies are those that tailor their plans to their clients requirements and offer the customer the option of adding additional bandwidth or e-commerce tools as their site develops.