UK customers set to enjoy 12 months of free Web hosting on Home and Business Pro packages

1 July 2008, London: 1&1 Internet Ltd, the world’s largest web host by known servers, today launched a ground-breaking offer that provides UK customers with 1 year of free hosting on its Home or Business Pro shared web hosting packages. From today until 31 August 08, customers signing up to one of these packages, from only £4.99/month+VAT with a minimum term contract, will receive their first 12 months free, representing a saving of up to £180. The 1&1 solutions boast industry-leading performance, inclusive .co.uk domain names and an unrivalled set of features for developing and marketing a website. The 1 Year Free offer is the latest example of the company’s ability to use its global scale to drive competition in the market and raise value for home and professional users.

1&1’s 1 Year Free offer delivers a choice of two world-class web hosting packages, with only a £9.99 set-up fee to pay for the first 12 months. The offer comprises an excellent opportunity to benefit from the latest high value web hosting features with minimal up-front investment and is ideal for new or growing businesses, hobby projects or charity groups. 1&1’s all inclusive approach even provides free inclusive .uk domain names (.co.uk / .me.uk/ .org.uk) with the packages.

Available with 1 year free, the 1&1 Home package continues to set the standard for UK web hosting plans. Priced from £4.99/month+VAT thereafter and available in Linux or MS formats, the package features an impressive 1.5 GB webspace, 20GB monthly traffic, 1 inclusive .uk domain name, 400 2GB email accounts, and a host of features to ensure a harder working website - 1&1’s exclusive WebsiteBuilder, Dynamic Content, Chat, Blog, Newsletter, SimpleSubmission and EasyShop tools, and £400 of free software.

The 1&1 Business Pro package is also available on the 1 Year Free promotion. Priced from £14.99/month+VAT thereafter and also available in either Linux or MS formats, the package is equipped with generous technical allowances to accommodate even a very demanding shared hosting user. The Business Pro provides a massive 8GB of webspace, 100GB of monthly traffic, 5 inclusive .uk domains, 1500 2GB mailboxes. In addition to 1&1’s web building tools, users enjoy advanced web development functionality - SSH Access, PHP & Perl, shared SSL certificate and 8 MySQL accounts.

Oliver Mauss, CEO 1&1 Internet Ltd, said “Our 1 year free offer is a great opportunity for web hosting users. The offer not only provides a great service free for 12 months, but is an ideal chance to adopt the latest hosting tools and features to bring your web presence right up to date”.

Through its innovative free promotions, recently seen in its Spanish market entry campaign, 1&1 continues to help drive web adoption for small businesses and individuals. 1&1’s latest 1 Year Free promotion will further its mission to help more users take their first steps on the web.

1&1 is well placed to provide a high quality service, offering the security of 99.99% uptime and an industry-leading 135 GBit connectivity via its own pan-European backbone. 1&1 currently holds over 7 million customer contracts worldwide and manages over 10 million domain names.

For more information on 1&1 Internet Ltd visit the website at www.1and1.co.uk