One.com (formerly SimpleSite) Review 2025

One.com hosting service offers four distinct plans, each designed to cater to different needs, with the added benefit.

• Beginner Plan: Ideal for small projects, this plan supports one website with 50 GB of SSD storage. After the first three free months, it costs $6.99 per month. It also includes unlimited mail accounts and daily backups.

• Explorer Plan: Perfect for bloggers, the Explorer plan also supports one website but offers 100 GB of SSD storage. Priced at $12.99 per month after the initial three-month free trial, it includes the same features as the Beginner plan, plus a 1-click WordPress install.

• Enthusiast Plan: This plan is well-suited for entrepreneurs, supporting up to five websites with 200 GB of SSD storage. After the first three months free, it costs $17.99 per month. Additional benefits include daily backups and restores, along with 1-click WordPress installation.

• Guru Plan: Designed for businesses, the Guru plan supports ten websites with a substantial 750 GB of SSD storage. It is priced at $26.99 per month after the three-month free trial and comes with premium features like free site protection, SEO tools, and advanced WordPress tools, along with unlimited mail accounts and daily backups.

When it comes to customer support, One.com has far more limited options than other website builders. For now, it offers only email support, FAQs, and some in-app tutorial guides.
Regardless of the limited options, the support offered to customers is somewhat inefficient. The company promises to get back to users within 48 hours of an email query. Industry-standard response times are only several minutes to a couple of hours. A 48-hour promise doesn’t exactly cut it. I tried them out nonetheless and my experience goes thus.

FAQs

The One.com customer service page is partially dedicated to answering FAQs. With questions categorized into general issues and payment-related concerns, users can easily find answers to their pertinent questions.

Despite the non-versatile support channels available on this platform, answers to the FAQs are elaborate and may compensate for the absence of a blog page.

Email Support

To compensate for their current lack of standby technical support, One.com loaded up the website editor with introductory setup guides. These guides come in handy when you’re using the software for the first time.

With every new feature, functionality, or integration that you try out within the editor, a technical guide shows up to walk you through the tool that you are trying to use.

Also, on first time use, the in-app guide gives you a tour around the editor to show you the function of each icon and how to find them with ease.

You can always skip these pop-ups and just wing the creation process, but it will be really helpful to take a look at them from the onset.

Design

100+ Templates

Add HTML Code

Blog Templates

Portfolio

Drag & Drop Editor

Multi-lingual Website

Fully Customized

Mobile-friendly

Marketing

SEO Tools

Social Media Integration

Widgets + Apps

Newsletter Tool

Monetization

Visitor statistics

Hosting

Multiple Sites

Free Custom Domain

Unlimited Space

Unmetered Bandwidth

Multimedia

Free Stock Photos

Video Plug-Ins

Audio Plug-Ins

Good For

Blogging

Online Stores

Automatic Website Building

Regardless of how excited you are about creating a website for your business, your utmost concern should run along with website performance after its published. Among many, your website’s performance is a very important factor to both potential customers and search engines. After building my website on One.com, I observed below decent results in the performance tests conducted.

Site and Page Speed

Seamless user experience is a product of superb site and page load speeds. With a good user experience comes increased conversion, higher engagement, more revenue, and a good search engine rating.

After building a pretty simple website that’s supposed to be lightweight, and measuring its performance, I got an overall performance score of 56/100. The site speed index measured at 4.7s. This falls below the 5-second benchmark in several industries.  However, it could be better considering that my website pages had very simple elements, weighing only a few kilobytes.

Also, the largest content took a significantly longer time to load completely at 8.2 seconds. This means that a visitor will have to wait that long to fully interact with my website.

Not very impressive numbers. However, there are ways that you can improve your site’s speed and performance. Sadly, One.com doesn’t have a resource deposit to help users figure that out.

Website Uptime

The One.com technical team works relentlessly to keep their servers up and active 99.98% of the time. This way, more than 21 million users can have their websites accessible to visitors and search engines around the clock (approximately).

So, despite the could-be-better performance of One.com-powered websites, users can rest assured that their websites won’t be experiencing downtimes at any moment.

One of the significant factors you will consider when choosing a website builder is how easily you can use it. You don’t want to get muddled up with complicated processes and cumbersome interfaces.

One.com, being minimalistic at its core, makes it easy to use to build a website from scratch. My experience using this product from setup to publishing was quite a breeze and here’s what it looks like.

Setup

Getting started is just like every other platform nowadays. You need an email and password, of course. However, setting up after signing up can be a multi-stage process for most website builders. With One.com, the setup is a smooth, interactive, and straightforward process.

You can get fully set up in less than 15 seconds. While trying to make your way around the platform, you’ll find tiny guides and brief instructions designed to help you understand what you’re really doing.

Once done, you’ll find yourself redirected to the editor straight away. There, you can start building your next awesome website.

Designing

Designing on One.com is a hands-off experience. Right from the setup, as seen in the video above, the in-app guide helps you build a really simple to use website in one go. Thereafter, you are free to start optimizing it however you like to suite your brand needs.

One.com understands the relevance of pictures and visuals to a website, so they partnered with Pixabay to serve users royalty-free stock images that they can add to their website as they create it. This video here shows just how it works.

Text Styling

After following the setup guides provided in the interactive onboarding process, you can start editing on your own accord. Here, you’d enjoy the liberty to add and style content as you see fit, including texts.
You can add new texts to your website by simply clicking the “+ Content” button on the top left corner of the editor and choosing “Text”.

Then, a window will show up for you to add and style your text however you want. However, compared with industry-leading builders, there are limits to what you can do with this text styling feature. You can change text color, font size, weight, indentation, and orientation. That’s pretty much all.

Form Customization

Forms are crucial. Else, how would you process orders and collect customer information? One.com lets you add forms to your website with ease.
All you have to do is select “Contact Form” from the list of content that can be added to the website. You will be presented with a form setup window for you to add fields and form actions.

Interestingly, you can further customize the form after you’ve added it to the website. By hovering over the form right there in the editor, the “Settings” option will become evident.

Selected, a window pops up for you to make the changes that you need. Currently, there is very little customization available for users. So, all you can pretty much do is set the background, width, and alignment of the form.

Button Designing

There are buttons on One.com. Yes, it allows you to add buttons to your website banner but you can’t really put out buttons however you want. Regarding the option of designing the buttons to fit your brand, oh no! That’s far-fetched at this time. But I’m pretty confident that the company is working on improving the product.

App Integration

It’s time to brace for impact because this might hit you hard. One.com doesn’t allow you to integrate third-party applications on your website. It would have been awesome should they let it, given that they have limited features available to business owners.

One.com is designed with minimalism at its core and over 21 million users have embraced this “less is better” design. A user-friendly interface, zero clog, and unlimited product listing, One.com offers small business owners with no technical background the opportunity for digital relevance.

Some businesses require sophisticated websites while others can do just well with a simple landing page. If you run a business that needs graphics-intensive, dynamic websites, there are several website builders to choose from, but One.com isn’t exactly a tip-top recommendation.

On the other hand, however, you can build a simple website and sell products easily with One.com. If you are skeptical or low on finances, you can jump in on the Free plan to sell as many units of any 5 products as possible. With this, you can raise some funds to upgrade to a paid plan. Nevertheless, you have 30 days to make this work.

Despite its shortcomings, though, One.com is a great builder. It’s hitch-free and very intuitive. But a lot more can be done by the developers to offer users more creative freedom. I understand that it’s minimalistic, but there’s a difference between dieting and starvation.