Comments on: 1and1 Vs GoDaddy: The Conclusion

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:46:10 +0000

I’ve had 0 problems with 1and1. The tiny issues I did run into were alwasy resolved within 5 minutes on the phone, and was always my error or my ignorance. I’m a programmer, not a server guru, so I dont knwo enough to comment ont he technical stuff. The only thing I have been put off by is the lack of PHP support on the Windows side. PHP rocks! If I wasn’t using ASP/C# at work I would have switched mine to a Linux host.

By: Hiwa Afandi

Hiwa Afandi — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:38:31 +0000

I totally agree with most of the points you mentioned. Being a 1and1 customer for more than a decade I have to say that their customer support is most of the times useless. You need to make them understand everything and once they do you will be transfered to another person where you have to start from the beginning.

The only weakness GODADDY from my view point is their terrible control panel. While 1and1 has a very user friendly interface godaddy’s CP wasted allot of my time eventhough I consider myself a skilled one based on the fact that I am a CMS developer myself.

Thank you for the comparison, I would choose Godddy and 1and1 for different purposes and make use of strengths where I need them.

Thanks,
Hiwa Afandi

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:34:14 +0000

Steve… the Godaddy ladies themselves signed up for it and I have not even thought about leaving Godaddy because the company has some funny “sexy” ads.

I actually feel a lot easier and fun to browse the Godaddy site as the 1and1 site with their young business boys with cheesy smiles (there are please 4 boys on their homepage and not ONE girl… it makes me feel like we are to incompetent for operating a website) trying to buy you into using their service and supermarket discount feeling I get after 2 minutes being on their site.

Girls get exposed to “this” sooner or later, choosing to avoid it might seem like a good temporary solution but it will come chasing you down sooner or later when your daughter is influenced from other sources and discovers her father is so close minded he even changed his web host because he was afraid the ads might influence his daughter.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:00:57 +0000

I’m considering switching from GoDaddy, because as the father of a growning young woman, I’m getting a bit tired of their sophmoric, degrading approach to women. At the same time, I’ve been happy with their products and services. I’m kind of torn. Any ladies have an opinion?

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:26:28 +0000

Yeah I have to admit its almost a tie between GoDaddy and 1&1.

Thanks for your comment!

Your site has an awesome design by the way!

By: Kate D

Kate D — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:15:19 +0000

I have had my site with 1and1 for a very long time and have no major problems. I do like all the freebies I got with 1&1 which GoDaddy didn’t offer. My few tech support issues in the apst few years were all able to be handled by the 1st level techs. I’m staying with 1&1.

Thanks for the review!