Illegal immigrants can not use 1&1 internet
I was browsing through 1&1 internet reviews, and came across a post in one of the forums suggests that you need to provide your passport copy and very very personal information in order to sign up for their services, sounds like 1and1 has become the online police department.
So out of curiosity I had a look in 1&1 internet privacy policy, where I found no mentions regarding to passports. That's why it is time for us to focus on the problems, pros and cons.
Problems
Not receiving validation email, You should get it right after you sign up, otherwise check your spam filter first, if still not, well, wait for a while and contact their support, for vps and dedicated may take up to 5 days to set up.
other problems are not really problems, such as how to set up joomla, wordpress, all you need to do is to use an ftp client such as filezilla, if you don't know how to do it, let me know, I will make a video on that.
Pros
Good variety of hosting plans, shared hosting, vps, dedicated servers etc. The starting price is surprisingly low for dedicated server, only $49/month, as for shared hosting and vps are pretty much the same as many other hosting providers.
I like the sound of green hosting, it feels like that we are helping to protect the environment as we are building our sites.
90 day money back guarantee (does not apply to dedicated), while most of the hosting companies offer only 30 days.
24/7 support which is pretty standard with all the big hosting companies, although I am a big fan (my surname is Fan too, and I am big) of live chat support, which is not available.
Cons
The account cancellation in 1&1 internet can be tricky, many customers had complaints on that issue, so read through their policies before you purchase 1&1 internet hosting plans (that applies to any other hosting companies)
Even though 1and1 and many other hosting companies provide a free domain when you sign up, but unless you are just testing it out and don't care about the site much, don't use the free domain provided for your site. I think we can all afford $10 for a domain name.
Conclusion
Don’t decide whether to register for a hosting account with 1&1 internet or not based on what I have just said, as I always suggest do more researches before buying any hosting service, and that will save you a lot of headaches and nightmares in the future. Watch my video “how to find a reliable hosting serviceâ€, and don’t forget to order hosting services through my links, because you will get a nice gift, actually a few. Click to see what you will get
VPS vs Dedicated for none techie
VPS vs Dedicated Server
First let's look at the difference between vps and dedicated
VPS or Virtual Private Server
VPS is a section of a dedicated server, hosting companies take a dedicated server and split it in to several sections by using Virtualization software, so Each server acts as if it is an actual dedicated server, only the hardware is shared. Which results in lower performance.
Dedicated server
Dedicated server is only assigned to one user, it is an actual machine, an actual server to do what ever you want it to. All of the hardware, software is yours to use. Another word you are the master of the server.
So which one do you need ? Dedicated or VPS?
To answer this question, there are two questions we need to answer first.
1. What is your budget?
the starting cost for a vps can be as low as $20 per month, as for a dedicated would be $80 plus.
2. Traffic
Generally speaking, the biggest disadvantage with VPS is its CPU. So if you have a large site that doesn't generate huge amount of traffic , VPS will do the job, and on the other hand if you do have a large site that brings huge amount of visitors, than Dedicated server is your choice, Some vps hosting services will notify you immidiately when your bandwidth (traffic) usage has exceeded a percentage that is set by you, such as vps.net.
Conclusion
Dedicated server has a lot of resources, it is generally used by customers who have a high usage and VPS is used by customers who want to have the same features like a Dedicated server but do not have the usage So if you wish to have features like a Dedicated server but do not require the resources assigned to it, then you can surely consider a VPS for yourself.
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If you are on shared hosting, and you are thinking of increasing your site's performence, it is a good idea to start off with VPS, and once the traffic start to increase, you will need to upgrade your vps plan which might cost the same as a dedicated server, than it just makes sense to get a dedicated. But of course, if you are happy with your vps, and even though you are paying the same as for a dedicated, you might just consider to stay with it, as the saying goes "If it is not broken, don't fix it"
Hope this post helped, and if you are wondering which vps hosting provder I am using, here you go