[frame align=”left”][/frame]With competitors like GoDaddy, MediaTemple, Viper Hosted and more jumping into the WordPress dedicated hosting scene 1&1 wasn’t about to be left out – and so yesterday 1&1 announced the launch of their WordPress optimized hosting solutions. 1&1’s WordPress solution offers a custom dashboard allowing quick and easy WordPress site installation along with a custom WordPress plugin, exclusive to 1&1 customers, which will help guide users through the WordPress website setup process to achieve various goals.
The 1&1 WordPress Setup Plugin works through 3 steps:
- Select a website category whether it’s a blog, gallery, business site, etc.
- Choose a theme for your website.
- Incorporate recommended plugins to help launch the ideal presence for your business type.
Robert Hoffmann, CEO of 1&1 Internet, comments, “Around one in four websites built using a content management system employ WordPress. Therefore, it is important to support this market with a targeted focus on usability and functionality within the platform. These new solutions, partnered with 1&1’s reliable hosting environment and guaranteed performance, offer heightened opportunities for users to achieve rapid online success.”
The new 1&1 WordPress web hosting plans start off at just $5.99/mo and that includes 100GB of disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and 20 1GB databases. A quick bump to the $8.99 plan gives you access to the CloudFlare CDN along with a free 1&1 SiteLock Basic plan to help secure your website. The $8.99 plan also gives you an unlimited amount of 1GB databases, and an unlimited amount of disk space. Finally the top-tier $14.99/mo plan adds in 1 dedicated IP address with a GeoTrust SSL certifiate, RailGun support for CloudFlare, 2GB of guaranteed RAM available for your website, and App Expert support from 1&1 to help with your WordPress website.
With the introduction of these new plans 1&1 is running a discount on all of their new WordPress plans. So the Basic $5.99/mo plan goes down to $0.99/mo for the 1st year; the $8.99/mo plan gets dropped down to $5.99/mo for the 1st year; and finally the $14.99/mo plan goes to $10.99/mo for the 1st month. An annual billing cycle is required to take advantage of the discounted pricing.