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  • Over 10,000 mobile optimized templates and 20 million images
  • Reliable hosting, free 24/7 support – without ads
  • Security with SSL Certificate

1&1 MyWebsite packages

Every user needs something different from their website. That's why we've created three distinct packages for you to choose from, allowing you to find the perfect website solution for your business.

Bestseller

Personal

BASIC

PLUS

Premium

For private websites

For freelancers and business websites

For business websites with online marketing requirements

For business websites and eShops

12 months
6.99$2.99/month2then $6.99/month
12 months
9.99$0.99/month1then $9.99/month
12 months
19.99$9.99/month3then $19.99/month
12 months
29.99$14.99/month4then $29.99/month
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30 day money back guarantee

30 day money back guarantee

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30 day money back guarantee

  • Security with SSL Certificate

    • Secure your customers' data in accordance with the latest safety standards in data encryption with the 1&1 SSL Certificate powered by Symantec

  • Website editor

    • Drag and drop website editor + 10 GB storage

    • Unlimited number of pages

    • Online photo editor

    • Automatically optimized website display on smartphones and tablets

    • Free 24/7 support

    • 1&1 SiteAnalytics

    • Access to the 1&1 Image Library

  • Domain and Mail

    • Your own domain, free for the first 12 months
      (.com | .net | .org | .info | .biz)

    • Basic Mail package to match your chosen domain

  • 200 mobile optimized design templates

    • 200 design templates suited to your personal website

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  • Security with SSL Certificate

    • Secure your customers' data in accordance with the latest safety standards in data encryption with the 1&1 SSL Certificate powered by Symantec

  • Website editor

    • Drag and drop website editor + 50 GB storage

    • Unlimited number of pages

    • Online photo editor

    • Automatically optimized website display on smartphones and tablets

    • Free 24/7 support

    • 1&1 SiteAnalytics

    • Access to the 1&1 Image Library

  • Domain and Mail

    • Your own domain, free for the first 12 months
      (.com | .net | .org | .info | .biz | .online)

    • Basic Mail package to match your chosen domain

  • Over 10,000 mobile optimized industry templates

    • 10,000 high-quality, industry-specific design templates for your business website

  • Industry-specific features and 20 million images

    • Additional access to over 20 million professional images for a variety of industries

    • Hundreds of web apps, including Google Maps, Blog and Facebook

    • Templates with image and text suggestions

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  • Security with SSL Certificate

    • Secure your customers' data in accordance with the latest safety standards in data encryption with the 1&1 SSL Certificate powered by Symantec

  • Website editor

    • Drag and drop website editor + 50 GB storage

    • Unlimited number of pages

    • Online photo editor

    • Automatically optimized website display on smartphones and tablets

    • Free 24/7 support

    • 1&1 SiteAnalytics Plus

    • Access to the 1&1 Image Library

  • Domain and Professional Mail

    • Your own domain, free for the first 12 months
      (.com | .net | .org | .info | .biz | .online)

    • Professional Mail package to match your chosen domain

  • Over 10,000 mobile optimized industry templates

    • 10,000 high-quality, industry-specific design templates for your business website

  • Industry-specific features and 20 million images

    • Additional access to over 20 million professional images for a variety of industries

    • Hundreds of web apps, including Google Maps, Blog and Facebook

    • Templates with image and text suggestions

  • Online Marketing

    • SEO Pro for improved ranking on Google and other search engines

    • Newsletter tool for customer acquisition and retention

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  • Security with SSL Certificate

    • Secure your customers' data in accordance with the latest safety standards in data encryption with the 1&1 SSL Certificate powered by Symantec

  • Website editor

    • Drag and drop website editor + 50 GB storage

    • Unlimited number of pages

    • Online photo editor

    • Automatically optimized website display on smartphones and tablets

    • Free 24/7 support

    • 1&1 SiteAnalytics Plus

    • Access to the 1&1 Image Library

  • Domain and Professional Mail

    • Your own domain, free for the first 12 months
      (.com | .net | .org | .info | .biz | .online)

    • Professional Mail package to match your chosen domain

  • Over 10,000 mobile optimized industry templates

    • 10,000 high-quality, industry-specific design templates for your business website

  • Industry-specific features and 20 million images

    • Additional access to over 20 million professional images for a variety of industries

    • Hundreds of web apps, including Google Maps, Blog and Facebook

    • Templates with image and text suggestions

  • Online Marketing

    • SEO Pro for improved ranking on Google and other search engines

    • Newsletter tool for customer acquisition and retention

  • Online Store

    • Sell up to 1,000 products

    • Numerous payment and delivery methods such as PayPal, purchase on account, or bank transfer

    • Access to online marketplaces like Amazon and eBay

    • $100 in Bing Ads Credits*

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What are the limitations of free website builders?

Free website builders and hosting
Free website builders let you create a simple, attractive website easily without prior experience. But do they always offer hosting? The answer, unfortunately, is no: In most cases, free providers don't offer hosting as part of their basic package. Web hosting requires expensive hardware, which means it's often not financially viable to carry out yourself. To have hosting included as part of your free website builder package will come at an cost. The other option is to source an external web hosting provider independently.

Some free website builders do in fact offer website hosting as part of their free package. But this normally means that other features are limited. The free basic package may come with hosting, but doesn't offer a custom domain name, SEO tools, additional users, or an e-commerce function. Other free website builders that offer hosting may place other restrictions, like removing the sign-up function for site visitors, stopping offline page maintenance, not offering SSL security, or blocking certain payment functions, like PayPal or credit cards.

Lastly, some free website builders that offer hosting run ads on your site. This is their way of funding their company to be able to offer you a free website builder – and you'll typically see no commission for these ads, regardless of how well your website performs.
Free website builder templates
Templates are a great way to give your website consistency and style. If you're a beginner with no prior experience in programming or web design, templates are crucial to making sure your site is attractive and has a clear layout.

If you find one that suits your needs perfectly, then it makes sense to use it. But unfortunately, they don't offer a great degree of flexibility, and they won't be exclusive to your site. So if you have an exact idea in mind but lack the programming and web design skills to make it a reality, or if you just want a nice, smart design that is unique to your brand, then a free website builder template probably isn't the answer.
Free website builders with e-mail functions
When setting up your company website, you might want to have your own, domain-specific e-mail address incorporated into it. For example, if you were to acquire the domain name 'bestcars.com', then it can add an extra level of professionalism to have e-mails for all your employees and customer services using this domain name (for instance: miranda@bestcars.com or info@bestcars.com), rather than using a centralized e-mail address domain. Unfortunately, free website builders don't offer this e-mail address feature free of charge.

In fact, many free website builders don't offer an integrated e-mail service as part of their basic package, meaning that you'll need to either use plugins to integrate an e-mail function yourself, or run your e-mail service externally from a separate place entirely.

Technical limitations to free website builders

What do I need to consider?
Free website builders usually come with certain technical limitations that can impact creativity, design flexibility, security, and general functionality. Free website builders often limit certain technical requirements, like CSS, mobile optimization, JavaScript, PHP, private databases, and video upload. Here are some of the questions you should ask yourself when choosing a free website builder:

• Is it possible to create in HTML5?

• Can I customize my HTML doc with CSS?

• Can I embed videos?

• Can I optimize my site for mobile devices?

• Does the free website builder offer JavaScript?

• Is it possible to use PHP?

• Can I easily connect to a database?
  • Technical limitations
  • HTML5
  • CSS
  • Video

Can I optimize my site for mobile devices?

Mobile optimization is an increasingly important factor in customer retention, because mobile browsing on smartphones and tablets is growing. This then affects the Google SERP (search engine results page) rankings: Sites that are not optimized for mobile devices are punished with lower rankings. Most free website builders only offer mobile optimization for premium customers.
  • Mobile optimization
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Database connection

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Free website builder

  • What are free website builders?

    Free website builder software is exactly that: readily-available online software that can be used to build a homepage free of charge. These free site builders operate in the browser, meaning you don't need to download any software onto your computer – you can simply log in online to design and run your webpage. Free website builder software tools are designed to make it as straightforward and cheap as possible to create a simple website for beginners. Some of their typical features include:

    • WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor so you know how your website will look
    • Drag-and-drop tools and other step-by-step solutions with pre-made text boxes and images to help simplify the process
    • No prior experience of programming required
    • No installation necessary – built-in external databases for storage
    • Simple, intuitive functionality
    • Free of charge to create and run

  • Am I able to upgrade the website builder to a more advanced version later?

    Package upgrades of this website creator can be made at any time. There is also the possibility of upgrading your website builder to a more advanced version of our website builder and create even more pages for your website. Try out our website builder and decide for yourself.

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    1&1 MyWebsite Basic: 12 months $0.99/month, then $9.99/month. 30 day money back guarantee. Billing cycle 12 months. Minimum contract term 12 months. No setup fee. Payable in advance.

    One domain included for the first year (.com | .info | .org | .net | .biz + more)

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    1&1 MyWebsite Personal: 12 months $2.99/month, then $6.99/month. 30 day money back guarantee. Billing cycle 12 months. Minimum contract term 12 months. No setup fee. Payable in advance.

    One domain included for the first year (.com | .info | .org | .net | .biz + more)

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    1&1 MyWebsite Plus: 12 months $9.99/month, then $19.99/month. 30 day money back guarantee. Billing cycle 12 months. Minimum contract term 12 months. No setup fee. Payable in advance.

    One domain included for the first year (.com | .info | .org | .net | .biz + more)

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    1&1 MyWebsite Premium: 12 months $14.99/month, then $29.99/month. 30 day money back guarantee. Billing cycle 12 months. Minimum contract term 12 months. No setup fee. Payable in advance.

    One domain included for the first year (.com | .info | .org | .net | .biz + more)

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