Included Domain at 1And1 - Best Kept Secret in Web Hosting

"Included domain" is a term that is rarely used by most web hosting companies nowadays, because not many web hosting companies are offering this kind of service. "Included domain" is used to describe a web hosting package which offers services that include domain registration. Some web hosts charge extra for this service, some offer it for free. 1And1 is one of the companies that offers this service for free.

Before you commit yourself to a web hosting company, find out if their monthly hosting fee includes domain name registration. Most web hosting companies charge you a monthly web hosting fee AND an annual domain name registration fee. The monthly web hosting fee is a fee charged to store your web pages on the web hosting company's web server. The annual domain name registration fee is a fee charged to maintain your right to a certain domain. If you get these two fees confused, just look at web hosting fee as the fee you pay to reserve a parking spot for your car, while domain name registration fee as your license plate registration fee.

With the exception of 1And1, most web hosting companies charge both types of fee.

1And1 offers 4 different packages with different number of included domains:

	Monthly Fee	Included Domains
Beginner Package	$3.99/mo ($2.00/mo for first 3 months)	1
Home Package	$4.99/mo ($2.50/mo for first 3 months)	2
Business Package	$9.99/mo ($5.00/mo for first 3 months)	3
Developer Package	$19.99/mo ($10.00/mo for first 3 months)	5

With 1And1's Beginner Package, you pay a hosting fee of $3.99 per month (for either Microsoft web hosting or Unix web hosting) and you are allowed to have 1 free included domain. This means that if you just have one domain, it will be hosted at 1And1's server for free, as long as you keep paying the $3.99 monthly hosting fee. For Home Package, you pay a hosting fee of $4.99 per month and you are allowed to have 2 free included domains. You will never have to pay domain name registration fee not just for a year, but forever, as long as you keep paying the monthly hosting fee! Tell me where else can you find a good deal like that?

What if you have 100 domains and you would like to purchase the Beginner Package? No problem! You just need to pay an extra $6.99 per domain per year. This annual domain name registration fee includes private registration, which block spammers from retrieving your personal email address. Most web hosting companies (for example, GoDaddy) charge $9.99/year for domain name registration AND $8.99/year for private registration. That's a total of $18.98! Why pay $18.98 to GoDaddy while you can get the same service for $6.99 at 1And1?

Included domain is the best kept secret at 1And1. Take advantage of this service now and save yourself some money. You will never find a better deal anywhere else. 1And1 is so confident about their service that they offer 90-day money back guarantee. You have nothing to lose for signing up.

Tony McBride is a website developer with more than 10 years of web development experience. He tried hosting his sites on various web hosting companies and finally settled for 1And1 because of its competitive price and abundance of features.

Cheapest Web Host With The Most Features

Are you shopping for a web hosting company? Aren't you tired of reading articles that teach you how to shop for a web host but never actually provide specific names of the web host companies? They tell you to look for web hosts that provide certain amount of web space, bandwidth, certain number of databases, email accounts, etc. However, they never tell you which web hosting companies to use at the end.

Well, this is NOT what this article is all about!

I have done all the shopping around for you and I am down to these two web hosting companies:

GoDaddy or

1And1

Why did I choose these two web hosting companies? Of all the web hosting companies that

I have tried, these two web hosts offer the lowest monthly fee with the most features. They both offer 24/7 support and they are committed to 99.9% network uptime.

Below are the feature comparisons of these two web hosts:

Feature and Price Comparisons between GoDaddy and 1And1:

	GoDaddy	1And1
Domain Registration:	$9.99/year	$6.99/year
Private Registration:	$8.99/year	$0
	Economy Plan	Beginner Package
Monthly Fee:	$3.99/mo	$3.99/mo ($2.00/mo for first 3 months)
Included Domains:	0	1
Web Space:	5 GB	10 GB
Transfer Bandwidth:	250 GB	300 GB
Email Accounts:	500	600
MySQL Databases	10	10
	Deluxe Plan	Home Package
Monthly Fee:	$6.99/mo	$4.99/mo ($2.50/mo for first 3 months)
Included Domains:	0	2
Web Space:	100 GB	120 GB
Transfer Bandwidth:	1,000 GB	1,200 GB
Email Accounts:	1,000	1,200
MySQL Databases	25	25
	Premium Plan	Business Package
Monthly Fee:	$14.99/mo	$9.99/mo ($5.00/mo for first 3 months)
Included Domains:	0	3
Web Space:	200 GB	250 GB
Transfer Bandwidth:	2,000 GB	2,500 GB
Email Accounts:	2,000	2,500
MySQL Databases	50	50

While both GoDaddy and 1And1 offer abundance of features at very competitive prices, from the comparison chart above, 1And1 comes out as the clear winner.

1And1 beats GoDaddy in every aspect.

To purchase a domain name using GoDaddy, you have to fork up $9.99/year. If you want to add private registration to your domain name (so that spammers can't get a hold of your email address), you have to pay an extra $8.99/year to GoDaddy. That's
a total of $18.98/year. On the hand, if you purchase a domain name through 1And1, you only pay $6.99/year, and private registration is free! So your total domain registration fee and private registration is only $6.99/year (as opposed to GoDaddy's total fee of $18.98/year). This is the lowestprice you can find anywhere to purchase a domain.

Once your purchase a domain, you need to pay monthly fee for it to be hosted on the web hostingcompany's web server. GoDaddy charges $3.99/mo for its Economy Plan. With the Economy Plan, you get 5 GB of web storage space, 250 GB of transfer bandwidth, and 500 email accounts.

With 1And1's Beginner Package, you get 10 GB of web storage space, 300 GB of transfer bandwidth, and 600 email accounts for the same price ($3.99/mo)! 1And1 is
currently offering a discount where you are only charged $2.00/mo for first 3 months.

Most of your hosting needs can probably be satisfied with 1And1's Beginner Package. However, if require more web storage space, bandwidth, or MySQL databases, check out 1And1's

Home Package or Business Package. Each of 1And1's packages beats GoDaddy's packages,in terms of price and features, hands down! You pay lower price for 1And1's packages andyou get more features, compared to GoDaddy's packages.

1And1 also offers a benefit called "included domain", which is not offered by GoDaddy. With
"included domain", you can host your domain at 1And1 at no fee! For example, Beginner Package offers 1 included domain, which means you can host 1 domain (either a new domain or existing transferred domain) at 1And1 without paying annual fee, forever! If you have just 1 domain and you purchase the Beginner Package, your $6.99/year domain registration fee is waived, and you get private registration for free! This is not a temporary deal. Your domain name registration fee is waived every single year. All you pay is the web hosting fee of $3.99/mo.

How sweet is that?

If you decided to purchase or transfer more domain names after you sign up with 1And1, you can just pay the extra $6.99/year for each domain (with free private registration). Alternatively, you can upgrade your package to Home Package (which offers 2 included domains) or Business Package (which offers 3 included domains). You can even go for Developer Package (which is not mentioned on the chart above) that offers 5 included domains.

You can continue to waste your time shopping for the best web hosting deal online. I guarantee that you will never find a deal better than 1And1's. I have many of my sites hosted there and I don't have any problem with them. Their control panel is easy to use and their support staff is very responsive.

I also have some sites hosted at GoDaddy, but I plan on transferring all of them to 1And1 soon. GoDaddy provides almost the same level of service, but I don't like their control panel and purchase process. They have too many ads on their site and they try to up-sell you on every page when you need to make a purchase. Sometimes I "accidentally" purchase items that I don't need because of their aggressive up-sell effort. Anyway, the main driver for me to move away from GoDaddy is price. If I can get the same level of service from 1And1, why pay more at GoDaddy?

So what are you waiting for? Sign up for 1And1
web hosting service now! They offer 90-day money back guarantee. You have nothing to lose! And I am confident that you will not be disappointed.