1&1 Hosting And Other Tid Bits
I’ve read the good the bad and the ugly about 1 & 1 hosting. I don’t have an opinion on the matter other than I’ve been hosting with them since around 2006. In that time I have experienced all kinds of problems.
Their customers service is okay but I do have some cripes about it and maybe I can help you solve some of your 1&1 hosting problems.
WordPress, SSL, 1&1 Hosting
So I have another blog 🙂 that uses SSL. Of course I had to figure out how to the SSL certificate to work with my site.
I called up 1&1 hosting support and they gave me zero support.
They told me to ask my developer how to do it.
I explained to them I was the developer of my site and not a very good one at that. Long story short I purchased my SSL certificate from geotrust through 1&1 and was installed on my server. I still know how to get it to work with my site.
So without complaining anymore about this here is the solution I found.
You can install WordPress Https and as long as you have your SSL certificate in your root domain, the plugin will connect all the dots for you. You don’t have to worry about the htacess or any technical stuff.
It’s actually rather easy to connect SSL to your wordpress.
Of course 1&1 hosting was unwilling to even point me in the right direction it took me several hours to figure that out.
WordPress | 1&1 hosting | IonCube
It literally took me 3 days of pulling what little hair I have left on my head out. Â I followed 1&1’s instructions step by step and it wasn’t working. Â I visited tons of forums and still I couldn’t find a solution to the problem.
For those of you that host with 1 & 1 by now you realize that there are many different scripts and plugins out there that require IonCube Loader. Now I don’t know 100% what that script does, but I do know that it’s suppose to make it difficult if not impossible for someone to reverse engineer the code. ( I don’t know how true that is) but it’s what it’s suppose to do.
In any event, other hosting companies like Hostgator or GoDaddy have ioncube installed in their c-panels already. Not 1&1 though, you have to manually install it yourself. I was told by customer support that I had a Linux (64 bits) server… THATS WHAT THEY TOLD ME….
Fact is, after feeling totally desperate I went ahead and installed Linux (32 bits) and it worked fine. The steps 1&1 gave me to follow worked like a charm. So in this case the information on how to install it was correct, the information they were telling me on the phone was incorrect.Â
So that just goes to show you that sometimes tech support isn’t very helpful at all.
Some Food For Thought
If your serious about doing business online. It can get frustrating, sometimes you can’t afford to out source the work that needs to be done. Â But if you can try and out source the stuff your not good at. It will save you hours maybe weeks, months of your life.
If your using 1&1 hosting yes you can do pretty much anything you need to do with your website with 1&1 however if your not an experienced web developer I don’t recommend using them.
If your a total newbie and you don’t know what you need play it safe and use hostgator, bluehost, godaddy or a hosting company that uses a C-panel.
You can start on a shared hosting plan, however if you want your business to grow you are going to have to switch to a dedicated host. Choose wisely the hosting company you pick. Thus far I’ve stuck it out with 1&1 hosting.
However, I am very close to moving all my virtual assets to another hosting company simply because I am tired of using software, scripts etc that don’t play nice with the way 1&1 works.
If you are having difficulties with your 1&1 hosting ask a question in the comment section. There is a good chance I can point you in the right direction….
For the longest time I didn’t think I needed a word press blog. I recently learned just how wrong I was. The best thing is to own your blog. Now that I know this information like this is helping me build the best blog ever. Thank you!
HI Tamira, yes wordpress is an amazing piece of software. The best part is it’s free and open source. The only part that sucks about it is since it is open source and there are a gabillion plugins and wordpress is always getting updates you tend to run into snags here and there.
However, what you can do with wordpress makes it more than worth it.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
1&1 hosting if they said your sever has Linux 64 bit but you have installed ioncube for Linux 32 bit and it worked you are extremely lucky bro. I am not that much geek so I will be stay away from 1&1 hosting because I regularly need help.
Hi Himanshu, I hear that bro, I do feel extremely lucky. There are a bunch of hosting companies out there that offer a better experience for the end user.
I am not sure why 1 & 1 continues to use such binary stuff. I plan on moving all my sites over to a new hosting company at some point in the near future.
sweet, and don’t put all eggs in the same basket 😉
Thank you for the information. In regards to hosting. How do you feel about FatCow?
Hi Donna it depends on what you want to be able to do with your site. While some people like low start ups. Ultimately in the end you get what you pay for.
I am sure it’s a great service if all you want to do is setup a basic blog or website. I wouldn’t feel to secure with it though if you plan on growing an online empire and making thousands of dollars online.
My advice is pick hosting you can grow with. If not you may end up in a situation like myself. Just recently I had my server crash because it couldn’t handle the load when we did a live webinar.
Which is interesting because I host my stuff on a dedicated host.
For people searching how to install ioncube loaders on spanish 1and1 shared hosting… They say you cannot install them, here is their reply:
Tras revisar su consulta, lamentamos informarle que no es posible efectuar el tramite que esta tratando de implementar ya que en los actuales hosting no es posible implementar ioncube.
Para ello debera contratar un pack de servidor dedicado.
La guia que nos ha proporcionado corresponde a 1&1 Estados Unidos, no corresponde para España.
After reviewing your ticket we apologize blah blah…
If you want it you must hire a dedicated server…
Ya what he said 🙂
I don’t speak spanish, however I did translate that in google translator. If you think 1&1 dedicated hosting is bad, their shared hosting plan is even worse.
I actually upgraded from their shared hosting package because there where to many other sites on it. Also I didn’t have the freedom to do what I needed to do like install Ioncube.
Hi Larry, I can only recommend 1and1 shared hosting for testing purposes (I use it just for this)… For live sites I’m using VPS with SSD disks from Cubenode (Spain) and I’m really happy with their prices and support.
Regards.
Well I am very happy with my current hosting company, but It is always good to know about other hosting services. I have read a lot about other hosting companies but this is the first time I came across 1 & 1 hosting services. It is bit complex when compared to other hosting service providing companies.
But as every thing has some pros and cons , this 1 & 1 hosting service also has many pros. I have known many people who have been using this hosting service since some years. I think it should surely be given a try.
Thank you for sharing.
thanks for the article, godaddy’s the best though. 1&1 doesn’t look good
I have always read some good reviews regarding 1&1 so far. Installing SSL certificate is common thing for a web hosting company. Its strange that they could not provide you any technical support.
I have a website hosted at 1 and 1 and I can say that they are the best hosting in the world, uptime 100%.
hi there
i am currently using 1&1 uk based hosting service, and i do not have any issue with that,
If you don’t mind, exactly where do you host your website? I am hunting for a very good web host and your website seems to be fast and up just about all the time