1&1 Internet

I hate it. It's slow, the interface sucks and difficult to use. The site takes longer to refresh than it would on my computer at home. I don't know what's going on with them... endless problems. In fact, I'm planning on moving my website right now.

I recently bought a web hosting domain name with a shared hosting account with 1&1. Then I was like, ok, so how do I go about managing the WHOIS PRIVACY, and such... only to find out that its an extra fee... so I'm like ok, I don't need it... so Im like ok, let me work on the next best thing, and that's my website. Ok, so I start uploading files, but the issues is that I need some special permissions in the htaccess, but when I set them I get an internal server error 500. I contact support; they basically say, its not our problem, deal with it yourself???!?!?!?!? I shall not say more.

AVOID THIS COMPANY, THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE HAD ME ON HOLD FOR 20 MINS; THEN THE CALL GOT DISCONNECTED. THEY ARE NOT A QUALITY PROVIDER.

I opened a contract with 1and1 for a dedicated server; using a RAID array to protect my data on the server. So after I move all of the data and about 100 clients, the bloody server becomes completely unavailable; why? hard drive failure and there was no way to fix the issue.

They don't accept PayPal and they only accept credit cards, to activate your account after it becomes suspended, you will need to use a credit card. So make sure you use one rather than trying to use PayPal. It's not great, but if you want to use 1&1, thats the choice you have. Not their most shinning moment, but PayPal is the only option for me... like it was when I signed up.

When it comes to working with control panels, its something that has to be spot on. However, in the case of 1&1 it really isn't, the interface is cumbersome and complicated to manage... certainly not their most shinning moment, that I can assure you of. Apart from that, their service is quite decent and works well. Support is another topic, but we'll leave that apart.

A total nightmare; Indian tech support, terrible customer service, and poor adaptive filters for email. Always getting flooded with some emails that makes no sense... and no real way to stem them. Stay away!!!!!!!!

Their customer service is super unhelpful; they seem not to be able to fix the most basic of issues such as uptime and email uptime... it seems like their mail server keeps crashing or something else is happening, as the email keeps getting stuck. When you call them up, they seem to grasp the issue, but they don't do anything to fix it.. which is quite frustrating itself, since thats one of the most important things to me... getting through to customer service and getting the issues solved.

Tip: If your looking at cancelling; I would suggest that you that you put it up in writing rather than trying to call them. If you call; you will be asking for your service not to be cancelled. So cancel your web hosting account via written email.

I've been a customer of 1and1 for years, most of the time, I've had nothing but a positive support response... while I normally don't need customer service, as I know what Im doing... I needed them this one time.

Seems they operate outsourced support, basically their support doesn't make any sense. They speak somewhat poor english and also they are very unprofessional, and frankly I dare say that they are very disrespectful. They make you repeat everything like 4 times before they finally understand everything. Oh well, another host that can't provide support, so what's new?

1&1 = bullshit. I recently became an admin of a couple of websites that are connected to this crappy provider. The support replies are useless and deficient; the service is decent, hard to admin, but decent. The email service is really great though; but apart from that blah. So its a mixed bag in a sense, they are cumbersome and complex, but they have excellent performance. Which is more important to you... you have to decide.