1and1 Joomla Hosting Review

1and1 is a well-known hosting company with a good reputation, providing customers with various hosting services including Joomla hosting. As one of the most popular CMSs in the industry, Joomla is commonly used by millions of users to create a website. Since 1and1 offers this hosting solution, some readers may be wondering about whether its service is rich-featured and excellent.

Here, we make a comprehensive review on 1and1 as below, which is mainly about its editorial rating, price, features, Joomla compatibility, performance, technical support, and their reputation over other review sites. This review helps readers who are looking for a good Joomla hosting determine whether 1and1 Joomla hosting is a suitable option for them.

1and1 Review

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

• Reputation
  
• Feature
  
• Speed
  
• Reliability
  
• Support
  
• Price
  $0.99/mo, 33% off $2.99/mo regularly

Price

1and1 provides 4 types of hosting packages, including Starter, Basic, Unlimited and Performance, which are starting at $0.99/mo, $2.99/mo, $4.99/mo and $7.99/mo. Note that those discounted price only valid for the 12/24/36 months billing term. If customers subscribe to its service less than 1 year, they need to pay each solution at $2.99/mo, $5.99/mo, $8.99/mo and $14.99/mo.

1and1 offers 30 days money back guarantee so that customers can get a full refund within 30 days. However, some reputable web hosts offer anytime money back guarantee without extra fee, like JustHost.

Features

1and1 Joomla hosting includes various features and integrates with a custom control panel. To help readers clearly understand its specific features, we have made a table in the follow, which presents comprehensive features about the 4 hosting packages.

According to this table, we can conclude that the advanced features are only existed in the Unlimited and Performance hosting packages. These 2 solutions are much more expensive than many other Joomla hosting packages.

Joomla Compatibility

1and1 supports PHP5.5, MySQL5 databases, Apache and some other Joomla compatible requirements, its hosting packages can be perfectly compatible with Joomla. Besides, this company provides 1-click Joomla installer to help customers install it with a few clicks.

Performance

1and1 uses 4 data centers worldwide powered by high performance facilities. This company has delivered at least 99.9% uptime to make sure that websites can keep running in a reliable hosting environment. Based on our 30 days test on its uptime, we present the specific statistics in the following chart.

According to the loading speed result monitored by BestHostingSearch.NET, the websites hosted with 1and1 shared hosting plan take 757ms server response on average. In fact, this record is not so outstanding in the industry.

Technical Support

1and1 allows customers to contact them via phone call and email. Besides, this company offers a user-based forum to help visitors get more hosting skills by communicating with other customers. And also, the help center includes many useful tutorials to guide customers build a website with ease. However, 1and1 doesn’t support live chat, which is the most responsive method to help customers get a prompt solution.

For some readers who have a high demand to the hosting after-sale service, we don’t recommend 1and1 to them. This is because that its phone call and email are not available on national holidays. Thus, when customers meet some problems on those periods, they are not able to get a solution immediately.

Summary

Considering what we have discussed above, 1and1 is not a good option to host a Joomla website, because of its weakness on the hosting features, performance and customer service. Here, based on the real experience and hundreds of customer reviews, we highly recommend InMotion, BlueHost and JustHost. All of them can provide customers with the first-class Joomla hosting. The following table lists detailed information about those 3 companies.

Rank	Company	Highlights	Price
1	JustHost	Free domain name Unlimited hosting 99.9% hosting uptime Anytime money back PHP, MySQL 5, Python, Perl, SSH, suPHP, SSL 24×7 support via telephone, live chat & email Learn more at http://www.justhost.com/	$2.25/mo
2	BlueHost	Free domain name Enhanced cPanel PHP, MySQL 5, Python, Perl, SSH, suPHP, SSL Serving for 850,000+ Drupal websites since 1996 Learn more at http://www.bluehost.com/	$2.95/mo
3	InMotion	Automated daily backup Fully upgradable $100 Google ads,$75 Bing/Yahoo ads Max speed zone technology, up to 6x faster than peers Learn more at http://www.inmotion.com/	$3.49/mo