It’s always better to get information straight from the horses mouth, so it’s my belief that it’s far better for the integrity of Blogging Rocket’s advice to link out to fellow bloggers who have actually done the thing they are describing.
1&1 are amongst the top European hosting providers, so it’s very likely that many people will be hosting their blog with 1&1. I used to have a 1&1 account and I have set up WordPress blogs there in the past, but I don’t have a tutorial ready to describe the process.
This is why I am going to recommend that anybody with a 1&1 hosting account should go and read the tutorial written by Anthony Baggett entitled: How to Install WordPress with 1 and 1 Hosting The post is a good solid read and will help anyone wanting to install WordPress on their system.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I curse the day I got involved with 1and1. In my opinion, avoid it like the plague.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
1and1 are fine until something goes wrong. Only then you realise they have a rather inadequate customer service department and technical support… don’t get me started.
April 6th, 2010 at 3:15 am
I’ll agree with the other 2 posts. I switched from IXWebhosting due do server outages and went to 1and1. It was like going from the frying pan into the fire. It has taken me weeks of late nights to transfer my 13 hosted sites. Today I got all the kinks out of a site and tested it thoroughly – perfect. Then installed an audio player plugin and now I get 404 errors on every page except my front page. Deactivated the plugin and the whole site is cranked up – again.
From reading other WP bloggers’ comments, it apparently has to do with a memory limit on running php scripts.
I am sorry I ever went with 1and1 and would advise ANY serious blogger to avoid them like the plague – especially if you don’t speak fluent Punjab.
It’s REALLY not worth the few bucks in savings.