Budget Web Hosting Round up - Part 2

Budget Hosting Plans Overview

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February 24, 2005

1. Introduction
2. Overview:

1and 1
PowWeb
Host Excellence
Hostway

3. Conclusion

1and1

1. Company
1&1 was established in Germany in 1992 and has since grown to include operations in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Currently, 1&1s global operations combine to make it the world's largest Web hosting company.

1&1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with 4,400 employees and a market cap of $1.7 billion. Since 1992, 1&1 has registered close to 5 million domain names, and currently operates 27,000 servers at four state-of-the-art data centers. 1&1's global community is over 3.5 million customer contracts strong. 1&1 has successfully leveraged its experience and stability to continually strengthen its unique business model of being a one-stop Internet shop where users can affordably obtain all of the resources they need for setting up an optimal Web presence.

2. Employees
1&1 has more than 1,300 worldwide.

3. Customer Support
1&1 offers 24/7 live customer support via telephone and email. Additionally, our Web site features an extensive FAQ section where users often find answers to their questions without having to contact a support representative. And recently we introduced a first-of-its-kind feature called Netviewer, which allows 1&1 support agents to view a user's screen exactly as the user is seeing it in real time. This makes for faster and more precise service calls.

4. Lowest price
The Home shared hosting package is currently priced at $4.99 per month with no setup fee.

5. Back-up system
1&1 employs a sophisticated and complex system of hard drive and tape based equipment that backs up every administered Web site on a daily basis. Each of our 300 shared-webservers is equipped with a RAID-5 storage system. Additionally 1&1 has several high-performance HP L700E and Qualstar tape libraries located in a different data center.

All server data is continiously and automatically backed-up via a 10 GBit/sec line to the back-up systems with some 179 TB capacity. For root servers, to which 1&1 administrators don't have root access, there is an available back-up space of 20 GB each. This way server customers can comfortably back-up their systems themselves via FTP.

6. The advantages
1&1 has achieved international growth and success over the past 13 years by offering complete and comprehensive do-it-yourself Web solutions at some of the most affordable prices available. Packages are full of features while 1&1 making them affordable the same time. Being the world's largest web host by known servers allows 1&1 to develop key strategic partnerships through to procure the latest technology at favorable prices.

Plan Name 1&1 Home Package
Disk MB 1,000 MB
Traffic GB 25 GB
Spam Filter Included
Email Accounts 200, IMAP or POP3 ; 1GB space
Websites Included 1 TLD, 10 sub-domains, 50 external domains
Other solutions Includes 1 free domain name, 1 Chat Channel, WebsiteCreator, DynamicSiteCreator, 1&1 WebStatistics, Virus Scanner, 1&1 WebMail, free Software Bundle worth $600, FrontPage Extensions, 1 FTP account, firewall, password protected directories
Price $4.99 per month , no setup fee and 90-day money back guarantee