1-Grid Review

Information about 1-Grid

1 Grid is a company from South Africa that first started hosting in 1997 so the good thing here is they have been around for some time, and claim over 35,000 clients, below I will get into Services, Features and Pricing which by the way the prices are in South African Rand which as of today the exchange rate is 14.59 rand per $1 U.S.D. Accepted forms of payment Mastercard, Visa, Instant EFT, PayFast, Zaper and SnapScan. However, you will need to check on the exchange rate the day you are looking at buying since this rate changes daily.

Company address

• 360 Business Park, 8 Wessex Rd, Paarden Eiland, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa.

Not a lot more to say about them since they don’t say much about themselves.

1-Grid has a global rank of 285,890 and a country rank of 1,798 and a category rank of 9 with total visits of 123.3K and a bounce rate of 31.04 with 5.24-page visits per visitor and an average visit time of 00:07:44, a revenue of between $5.0-$10.0M these are stats from SimilarWeb.

Services and Features that 1-Grid offers are the following.

The services that 1-Grid offers are the following Domain Registration, Business Email, Shared Hosting, .NET Hosting, Reseller Linux Hosting, Reseller Windows Hosting, Website Backups, Email Archives, Website Security Services, Enterprise Servers, Dedicated Servers, VPS, Server Backup, Web Designs, VPN and Company Registration. Features include cPanel, Plesk, Linux, Windows, Malware Removal, WordPress Optimized, SSL, Daily Backups, SSD on There enterprise and dedicated servers.

Some stats on 1-Grid that might interest you.

Some other Stats provided by SemRush that might interest you about 1-Grid have 47.5K backlinks from 3.9K different referring domains, They have an Authority Score of 48 which is not bad, They have a DR of 74 which is also not bad, 84% of their organic search traffic comes from South Africa while 4.7% comes from The United States 1.8% from The United Kingdom, 0.1% from Canada and the other 8.9% from all other countries. The majority of 1 Grid‘s search engine traffic comes from the Following keywords below.

1. I/O Usage
2. 1-Grid
3. Cannot Verify Server Identity
4. 1 Grid
5. Cannot Identify Server Identity
6. AnyDesk
7. err_ssl_protocol_error
8. Business Email Account
9. cPanel Login
10. Free Business Email

Some details about the speed of the host, now these may not be the same speeds you’ll get since first it will depend on the services you buy, your website design, size of images/videos, if they put you on the same server or have different servers for clients, etc.. also the host may or may not be using their fastest servers to host their sales page which to me would not be smart since a first impression is usually the one you stay with, at any rate here is the speed information tested on there front page.

GTmetrix – gives them an B grade with 76% Performance and 94% Structure tested from Vancouver, Canada.

GTmetrix Performance Metrics	Speed/score
First Contentful Paint – good user experience is 0.9 s or less	1.8 s
Speed Index – good user experience is 1.3 s or less	5.4 s
Largest Contentful Paint – good user experience is 1.2 s or less	1.8 s
Time To Interactive – good user experience is 2.5 s or less	2.2 s
Total Blocking Time – good user experience is 150 ms or less	0 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift – good user experience is a score of 0.1 s or less	0.01

Pingdom – gives 1-Grid an C grade of 72 with a load time of 2.35 tested from Frankfurt, Germany.

Page Speed Insights – gives their Cell phone page speed an 75 and a 97 for Desktops.

PSI Metrics	Cell Phone Speeds	DeskTop Speeds
First Contentful Paint	1.0 s	0.3 s
Speed Index	3.1 s	1.2 s
Largest Contentful Paint	4.5 s	1.2 s
Time To Interactive	5.3 s	0.3 s
Total Blocking Time	270 ms	0 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift	0.001	0.01

Dotcom Tools gives the following –

Location	Performance	Full Page Load	First Meaningful Paint	Network	Dom Complete	Page Size
Tel-Aviv	Slow	3.94 s	2.50 s	4.08 s	3.90 s	367 kb
Amsterdam	Fast	1.26 s	0.80s	1.01 s	1.17 s	366 kb
Montreal	Very Slow	8.78 s	3.20 s	8.59 s	8.70 s	542 kb
Hong Kong	Very Slow	11.27 s	5.40 s	10.63 s	11.14 s	542 kb
Miami	Extremely Slow	49.83 s	45.30 s	49.54 s	49.74 s	366 kb
Average Duration	VERY SLOW	15.01 s	11.44 s	14.77 s	14.93 s

Site Checker – gives them 96 out of 100 with a load time of 3.39 seconds For Mobile Phones and 93 out of 100 for Desktop loading in 1.34 seconds tested from San Francisco, California. First Contentful Paint for Mobile was 2.0 s and for Desktops 1.2 s.

More test results are listed below –

Test from Hamburg
Total Time	1832 ms
Resolve Time	24 ms
Connection Time	0 ms
Download Time	1808 ms
IP Address	104.20.143.107

RESPONSE DETAILS
Total size	57 kB (56,694 bytes)
Status	200 OK

RESPONSE HEADERS
Date	Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:27:57 GMT
Content-Type	text/html
Transfer-Encoding	chunked
Connection	keep-alive
CF-Ray	6f546960ebe97272-HAM
Cache-Control	public, max-age=14400
Expires	Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:28:17 GMT
Last-Modified	Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:58:13 GMT
Vary	Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
CF-Cache-Status	HIT
cf-apo-via	tcache
content-security-policy	frame-ancestors https://*.https://w3i.com/sg0W ‘self’;
Expect-CT	max-age=604800, report-uri=”https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct”
x-frame-options	SAMEORIGIN, ALLOW-FROM https://w3i.com/sg0W
Server	cloudflare
Content-Encoding

Sample Pricing of 1-Grid services is listed below.

1-Grid’s sample business email pricing

	1-Grid	1 Grid	Industry Leader 1	Industry Leader 1	Industry Leader 2	Industry Leader 2
	Email Basic	Email Pro	Personal	Business Basic	Business Starter	Business Standard
Email Storage	10GB	25GB	50GB	50GB	30GB	2T
Collaboration Tools	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Mobile Friendly	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Instant Messaging	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Video Conferencing	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Free . Online Domain	✔️	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌
Cost in South African Rand	R49	R69	R109	R110	R85.19	R170.37

1-Grid’s sample Website Building prices

Small
10 pages
Mobile-friendly website design
Drag and drop page builder
Free stock images
Free .store domain
Only
R109/m

Medium
Get your business online today with our easy-to-use online store builder
35 pages
E-commerce (10 products)
Mobile-friendly website design
Drag and drop page builder
Free stock images
Free .store domain
Only
R219/m

Large
Get your business online today with our easy-to-use online store builder
Unlimited pages
E-commerce (unlimited products)
Mobile-friendly website design
Drag and drop page builder
Free stock images
Free .store domain
Only
R319/m

1-Grid’s sample Shared Hosting pricing

Small
FREE .co.za or .online or .xyz domain
Host 1 websites
4 GB storage
75 mail accounts
Plesk control panel
STARTING AT
R80/m

Medium
FREE .co.za or .online or .xyz domain
Host 200 websites
10 GB storage
Unlimited mail accounts
Plesk control panel
STARTING AT
R120/m

Large
FREE .co.za or .online or .xyz domain
Host unlimited websites
50 GB storage
Unlimited mail accounts
Plesk control panel
STARTING AT
R250/m

1-Grid’s sample .NET Web Hosting pricing

Small
FREE .co.za or .online or .xyz domain
4 GB storage
Host 1 websites
75 mail accounts
STARTING AT
R80/m

Medium
FREE .co.za or .online or .xyz domain
10 GB storage
Host 200 websites
Unlimited mail accounts
STARTING AT
R120/m

Large
FREE .co.za or .online or .xyz domain
50 GB storage
Host unlimited websites
Unlimited mail accounts
STARTING AT
R250/m

1-Grid’s sample Enterprise Server pricing

	1-Grid	VM Alternative	VM Alternative 2
Price	R4999/m	R31500/m	R27400/m
Term	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Storage	2X 500GB SSD + 2X 1TB HDD	2X 500GB SSD + 2X 1TB HDD	2X 500GB SSD + 2X 1TB HDD
Ram	192GB	192GB	192GB
vCPU	32	32	32

1-Grid’s sample Dedicated Servers pricing

	1-Grid	VM Alternative	VM Alternative 2
Price	R4999/m	R31500/m	R27400/m
Term	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
Bandwidth	Unlimited	1TB	1TB
Storage	2X 500GB SSD + 2X 1TB HDD	2X 500GB SSD + 2X 1TB HDD	2X 500GB SSD + 2X 1TB HDD
Ram	192GB	192GB	192GB
vCPU	32	32	32

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