Listen to this ONE: 1&1 Web Hosting Sucks
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Cheap Web Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, eCommerce Hosting
Oct 21,2008
If you are considering to get a hosting account from 1and1, you may want to (or probably have tried to) search for the keywords “1and1 Sucks” on Google. However, the result may confuse you. Perhaps you have read tons of good stuff and rave reviews about 1and1 thus far.
1and1 experiences and stories like below may make you think twice to signup with 1and1:
- “As you can imagine, I’ve been having some trouble with 1&1. They nixed by site by placing some kind of “lock” on it…”
- “…now going through another 1and1.com incident where my server has been down for over 36 hours.… ”
- “1and1 web hosting sucks – it’s slow and unreliable… “
If you go through each of Googles result pages, it seems there are hundreds of unsatisfied customers who have been through some sticky situation with 1and1. If you search for the keywords “1and1 sucks”, you see that there are more than 100 results by Google. That is a lot of bad things said about one hosting (assuming all those result pages talks about why this hosting provider really sucked). There may a few more result pages when you search for “1and1 scam”, “1and1 issues“, or ”1and1 problems“. Should these hate or complaint sites worry you after you have read so many positive reviews? Should hate pages make you change your mind?
| Hosting | Total Pages About Web Host |
Total Hate Pages About This Host |
Hate/Pages Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1&1 | 1,180,000 | 1,080 | 0.08 % |
Rethink. Do not dismiss the fact that 1and1 is one of the top 20 web hosting in America, the United Kingdom and even the world. You have read the other 1&1 reviews elsewhere. 1and1 does what a hosting company should do. That is, 1and1 actually answers their phones, replies to their emails, responds to live chat requests, doesn’t rip you off, and provides quality hosting. 1&1.com also has some of the best dedicated server and best ecommerce hosting plans around. So among the millions of satisfied clients, surely they will be a few who disagree. Let us look at the numbers above.
From the above number, only eight out of every 100,000 Google result pages about 1and1.com says that this hosting sucks. That is not bad after all isn’t it? This is still very good considering other hostings we have looked at have much worst ratio. The hate pages is really negligible for 1&1 web host. Don’t forget that they have servers in many countries other than US and UK.
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You have to be kidding me.. probably only 0.5% of the people that are unhappy actually post a complaint and probaly ony 1% of those show up on Google.
1and1 sucks.. I have been a customer of theirs for many years and have finally decided .. at the cost of hunderds of $$ and many hours and headaches to move away from them…
They do not care about customers !!!
I hope they go out of business..
I don’t make up those numbers. You can check for yourself on Google.
I think more people with complaints will post on the internet. We usually keep quite if we are happy don’t we? Thus the ratio and the reliability of the hate pages should be way lower than above.
Since 1&1 has over 7 million global customers, hosts over 5.5 million websites, and has over 55,000 webservers, there are bound to be some people that 1&1 did not work out for. But they couldn’t possibly be doing everything wrong if 5 million site owners still trust them.
You try getting and keeping that many customers for your product/service. I guarantee you will not be able to keep all of them happy.
My guess is that smaller hosting companies might on occassion have fewer negative reviews probabbly have fewer customers, less wait time on problem resolution.
As for Jack, if you are (I am not saying you are) the same ‘Jack’ who claims to have a class action lawsuit against 1&1, (I saw this on another sucks site), shame you have nothing better to do than trash companies you hate. How about trashing poverty, global warming, war, famine – really important things that are worth complaining about.
If “haters” crusaded just as hard for companies they liked, I bet their lifes would change – for the better.
I agree with admin.
Paul W.
Okay here are the truths ;
- 1and1 may be a good choice for standard “.html” or “.php” customers but definitely not for asp.net builders!
- Doesnt support App_Browsers, App_Code folders where sometimes you have to use these files to keep your site running.
- One and the most important is DOESNT SUPPORT AJAX!
My conclusion is 1and1 really SUCKS. Stay away.
I think it is unfair to say it sucks only on the basis of you having some ASP.net code problems.
True, their website states that with the $9.99 hosting option it does support ASP.net. I don’t know about AJAX but for the price they offer, who cares?
The problem is, the posts that are recent AND are shared experiences by numerous individuals and companies indicate a potential issue which potential customers want to be, and should be, aware.
OTOH, the poster that slammed 1and1 for not being good hosts for ASP.net needs to reexamine the issue. The problem likely isn’t 1and1 but ASP.net. I wouldn’t use ASP.net if it were the last hosting option on the planet; I have yet to see a single ASP.net site that doesn’t work properly in non-IE browsers. (What really tickles me is that he is using ASP.net PLUS AJAX! What a hoot!)