Well actually they don’t!
As of publishing this blog, the web hosting company that I’ve hosted several projects with has been 1and1, and I’ve used a handful of other web hosting companies. I really am not sure which hosting companies seem to be the best, its a bit of a minefield. There are so many factors to consider such as reliability, uptime, available features and one that I think is most important is support. If support is not great, then when you run into problems this can be a real nightmare.
Recently, I was about to start a new project and wanted to start using AJAX technology to get the project up and running. Unfortunately the web hosting company 1and1 told me that they don’t support AJAX. A major company like 1and1 not supporting a major technology like AJAX?
Fair enough, AJAX is a relatively new technology but there are other companies that are supporting it. So I repeatedly ask them whether they were certain, and I got varying answers. At one point they said they did, and silly me, trying to be optimistic, went ahead building my website using AJAX. When it came to deploy to the server, low and behold none of my AJAX pages worked! So I shouldn’t have believed them after all!! I had to rip out all my AJAX components from the pages to get it working.
So for my next project I’ve learnt my lesson. Only believe they support a technology if they explicitly state it on their list of supported features on their packages.
In fact I’m going to try a different web hosting company this time. 2 other companies I’ve had quite good experience with are Hosting UK and Fast Hosts. Both have quite reasonable support and both support AJAX.
I’ll let you know how I get on!
Hi
I am using 1And1.com. I need to use Ajax in my website but unfortunately 1And1.com not supporting this.. Is there any way to make it work in 1And1 itself
Thanx in Advance
deepumi
Hi deepi,
I think this is still the case. I would go for a host which explicitly states in their list of supported features for their packages whether or not they support AJAX.
If you already have a site using AJAX but your hosts don’t support it, I came across this:
I’ve not tried it yet so I can’t guarantee how well it works.
see the mail I recieved from 1and1.co.uk’s UK based support!!!
As to your query, kindly be advised that as of this email we do not have an advise yet from our admins as to when we are going to support AJAX and .NET 3.5. You will know it as we will have it advertised in our site once we already support it. Relatively, please note also that this concern has already been raised previously to our admins. We are certain they are working on this already.