Which web hosting offer to choose 1 & 1 or OVH

[PS: this article “Which web hosting offer to choose 1 & 1 or OVH” Only reflects my opinion after testing the two hosts.]

This is a question that a client recently asked me, “What web hosting offer do you advise me? 1 & 1 or OVH? “He hesitated between the two hosts, and I think it is not the only one. What I propose in this article is to give you a little comparison to help you make your choice to choise web hosting offer. (If you’re really impatient, you can click here to know the results right away.)

1 & 1 or OVH ?

First, the similarities: 1 & 1 and OVH are undoubtedly two of the biggest leaders in the hosting market. it is even the two most popular web hosts. Both have relatively similar, affordable and very competitive offers, and it is not the price that will help them stand out.

For this reason, I will consider other criteria: quality servers and customer support.

Quality servers:

Actually, my first websites were all hosted at OVH, on shared servers (that is, shared by thousands of other web sites). And it is clear strength of a technical character concerns that I ended up an account with 1 & 1.

Here are the cares that I met with my shared hosting OVH. First, I met the unavailability of the site - particularly annoying thing. That is, it happened regularly that some sites are inaccessible for varying lengths of time. A few tens of seconds to tens of minutes (it has happened that one of my sites remain inaccessible for nearly 45 minutes, for no apparent reason!) :(
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Second, it happened to me many times as .zip files are inaccessible for some of my sites OVH. Why? Mystery and gumdrop!

Except that - and I wrote to OVH countless times to indicate their problem! - Nothing happened … So I was getting to my newsletter subscribers messages to say: “Great, but I do not download PDF … That sucks! “In terms of business, that’s not good at all!

Side 1 & 1, I did not notice this kind of concern. Good point for 1 & 1 then.

Technical support

Side 1 & 1, I have to admit I’ve never been disappointed. As soon as I have a technical question to settle, I call the technical support service company. The people we have in the line are competent and, importantly, the line is a non-premium rate number. In other words, at 1 & 1 technical support by telephone for free (you just pay the cost of a normal call)!
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Side OVH is mail that everything goes … It is written and usually we get a response within 48 hours. It is less convenient than the phone even if the answers given by the technicians are usually adequate.

However, when dealing with a technician, all exchanges on a topic going on with him or her. Result: If the person does not understand the problem (where think he “settled” whereas this is not the case), exchanges can last a long time … And become downright painful when we spend time to re-explain the same thing. It even happened to me to close a trade just to get back to the technical after, just to have another partner …

Note, however, that there is a hotline OVH. Except that, as with other hotlines, we did not want to abuse it because it is very (very) expensive … € 1.349 VAT per call and € 0.337 incl minute!

Other factors to determine your choice:

Before I opted for 1 & 1, I had read some negative reviews (especially for technical support). Obviously, the company has increased its efforts to provide a benefit, in any case, my point of view, has always been more than satisfactory.

OVH side, I noticed a tendency to make some laborious and complicated procedures (To give up a free service for example, to print a form and send it to the company by mail, with a copy of your ID … Why a simple scan + mail will it not enough? No idea!).
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In terms of administration interfaces, 1 & 1 and OVH each made their choices. I find that 1 & 1 prettier, but the OVH is equally intuitive.

Finally, note that 1 & 1 offers 1 month free trial. This gave me a good excuse to test this web hosting offer. :)

And the winner is? …

In your opinion, and despite what I said there, what did I advised my client as host … Click on the image below to find out?:
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In general, and even though my preference is for one over the other 1 & 1 are both leaders and OVH hosts offering great services and hosting solution to suit your site (After each preferences!; )).

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