One.com web hosting review: Needs more polish

Value When Reviewed

$6.99 to $29.99 per 30 days relying on tier

Finest Costs At this time: One.com

The Danish internet hosting service One.com, which has places of work in lots of different international locations, has been round for the reason that early 2000s and is among the bigger European hosting suppliers. It additionally accepts U.S. {dollars}. In recent times, the corporate has centered on simplicity and affords a spread of packages in several sizes, with probably the most appropriate for personal people known as Newbie, which prices USD $6.99 per 30 days after the three-month free trial interval.

This package deal consists of 50 gigabytes of storage with limitless visitors to an internet site and limitless e-mail accounts sharing house with the web site. This makes the service much less appropriate for many who have very modest house and visitors necessities and wish the most cost effective attainable service, however one of many most cost-effective per gigabytes of house.

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A drawback of the package deal is that straightforward set up of WordPress or different net apps is just not included and should be finished manually by importing recordsdata with sftp. Nevertheless, the custom-made web page builder is included, though it’s restricted to a important area and doesn’t work with subdomains.

The web page builder is much like a number of different firms (and WordPress) with modifying of blocks and particular person elements inside them. It’s barely extra sophisticated to make use of than Bluehost or HostGator, for instance, however it’s attainable to construct superior pages.

Minimalistic admin panel

One.com has chosen beginner-friendliness over, properly, most issues really. The admin panel is at first look very simple and user-friendly, however it doesn’t take lengthy to understand that it’s all about type over perform. Primary settings discovered on each different net host I’ve tried are lacking, and I’ve to ask help for assist to do a number of issues (some transform unattainable — for instance, it’s unattainable to make use of the corporate’s web page builder with a subdomain).

The favored cPanel could also be tougher to study, however not less than it could possibly do all the pieces you may want in an internet host. For the worth you pay for One.com’s most simple package deal, I anticipate greater than this. For individuals who favor to make use of Cloudflare for area administration, for instance, it’s loads of additional trouble.

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Good help

A number of net hosts I’ve examined turned out to have commendable help, and One.com is among the many finest. That is in distinction to the corporate’s hard-to-find documentation and lackluster admin panel. I can get in contact rapidly, and the individual I chat with is affected person and passes technical questions on to tech help who helps me resolve a DNS challenge (I’ve my area with Cloudflare and wanted an additional DNS file to make https connections work).

Whereas there are actually issues to understand about One.com’s service — its buyer help and beginner-friendliness amongst them — there are higher hosting providers to be discovered. For example Bluehost affords a extra complete characteristic set in addition to being an incredible instrument for novices, whereas InMotion can be very user-friendly and affords 24/7 help and a lot better pricing.

Details: One.com
Supplier: One.com
House: 50GB
Variety of websites: 1
Bandwidth/visitors: Limitless
Web page builder: Personal
Electronic mail accounts: Limitless, shared house
Area: Not included
TLS certificates: Included, automated
Value: $6.99/month

This evaluate was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on pcforalla.se.