Archive for May, 2009
All this talk about hosting companies and we have yet to discuss the most popular hosting companies of them all; GoDaddy.com. The slogan from this illustrious company is “The web is your domain.” The three main plans offered by GoDaddy.com are the economy plan, the deluxe plan, and the unlimited plan. All three of these plans come with no setup fees, no ad banners or pop-ups, and no annual commitment required. People that sign up for their plans can cancel them at anytime or renew them whenever they like as well. Every hosting plan from GoDaddy.com also comes with free access to the company’s exclusive Go Daddy Hosting Connection.
Directly from the GoDaddy.com site, the following is what each of their hosting plans offers:
- Free setup!
- Free Access to Go Daddy Hosting Connection
- FrontPage extensions
- 24×7 FTP access
- Best-of-breed routers, firewalls and servers
- Web site statistics
- Our world-class data centers
- Daily Backups
- 24×7 monitoring
- 24×7 email, telephone, and Web-based tech support
- 24×7 physical security
GoDaddy.com has grown to become one of the largest and most popular website hosting companies in not only the country but also the world. They have some of the most creative and interesting commercials on television today that star racing phenom Danica Patrick. Their commercials are quite risky and are always to be continued on their website. By the time 2009 rolled around, GoDaddy.com had over 30 million domain names under their management. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Its original name was Jomax Technologies and was founded by Bob Parsons.
Here we will review one of the many web hosting companies around today; 1 and 1 Hosting. 1 and 1 Hosting offers four different hosting plans for people that need to have their website hosted on the Internet today. Their four plans include 1 and 1 Beginner, 1 and 1 Home, 1 and 1 Business and 1 and 1 Developer. 1 and 1 Beginner is for the person that is having their very first website hosted, 1 and 1 Home is for family websites or hobby sites, 1 and 1 Business is for small to medium businesses and 1 and 1 Developer is for web developers.
It costs customers $3.99 per month for the 1 and 1 Beginner plan, $2.49 per month for six months for the 1 and 1 Home plan, $4.99 per month for six months for the 1 and 1 Business plan and $9.99 per month for six months for the 1 and 1 Developer plan. The home, business, and developer plans will rise to $4.99, $9.99, and $19.99 per month after the first six months of their contract with customers. This is a special going on right now on 1 and 1 Hosting’s website.
1 and 1 Hosting offers excellent customer service to their clients online and over the phone. Their online customer service includes a FAQ page and a place to email their customer service center to have any questions answered about the service. The following are the domain features for all four of 1 and 1 Hosting’s main plans:
As long as you keep your package |
1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Keep your contact information confidential |
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| Subdomains | 25 | 100 | 200 | 600 |
| Host External Domains | 20 | 50 | 100 | 200 |
| Host Unlimited 1&1 Domains | ||||
Manage all of your domains in 1 place |
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| Domain Contact Management | ||||
| URL Masking | ||||
| Domain Access with or without “www” |


























