Trying a new web host …
Because of the numerous websites I’ve done over the years, I like to place different sites on different web hosting companies for many reasons. This allows me to try new companies out and see what their service and special features are. Also they will be coming from different IP addresses, which may be beneficial in the search engine optimation world.
I just recently started a new web site with a company called 1and1.com Web Hosting. And I gotta say, I like them. I have sites hosted with Yahoo!, Optimal Web Hosting, GoDaddy, and the latest is now 1and1. All are good. And they all have their own key features.
WIth 1and1.com, they had several features at the $9.99 per month level which I found to be nice to have. For example, they offer plenty of room for bandwidth (1000 GB) which is good, cause this new site will have some videos on there. You can store 100 GB of data on your site at the business level (the $9.99 per month offer). That’s alot of video space.
Some other nice features I like about 1and1.com was they had the ability to set up blogs, send out monthly newsletters (up to 1000 people per month), their control panel is very user friendly and easy to understand. They also have some other cool stuff like a live chat script you can add to your site to chat with your visitors, a form building tool to help you easily create forms to gather data, CRON jobs and more.
So in addition to the list of web hosting companies I would suggest, I also recommend this company - 1and1.com.
We created a simple site a few months ago using 1and1. A friend of mine is a psychologist (who actually has a rather legendary reputation of being one of the best in his field) and just for fun we created a site that allows people to send out free ecards. The site is called thehappyanyday.com and allows people to send funny simple e-cards for no particular reason. And using 1and1.com to host this site, we’ve had no problems installing any of the scripts or managing the site. It’s been very straight forward, fast and reliable.
So overall, I gotta say it’s a good deal. They have millions of satisfied customers and considering their current offer (some great software), it’s highly worth checking out… 1and1.com - keep it in mind the next time you start up a new site.