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PowWeb Hosting
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Introduction on PowWeb
| Hosting Plan | PRice |
| 12 months plan | $4.88/mo |
| 24 months plan | $4.88/mo |
| Hosting Features | Details |
| Disk Space | Unlimited |
| Monthly Bandwidth | Unlimited |
| Host additional Domains | Unlimited |
| Parked Domains | Unlimited |
| Unlimited | |
| Free Domain Name | Yes |
| Free Site Builder (SohoLaunch) | Yes |
| mySQL Databases | 75 |
| Software/Apps | Details |
| Perl 5 | Yes |
| PHP 5 | Yes |
| Ruby/Ruby on Rails | Yes |
| WordPress | Yes |
| B2Evolution | Yes |
| Joomla/Mambo | Yes |
| Multimedia Features | Details |
| Flash & Shockwave Support | Yes |
| Support Streaming Video | Yes |
| Support Streaming Audio | Yes |
| eCommerce | Details |
| ShopSite Starter | Yes |
| OsCommerce | Yes |
| SSL Shared | Yes |
| Other Features | Details |
| Log Files + Site Stats | Yes |
| Customizable Error Pages | Yes |
| Web File Manager | Yes |
PowWeb had been providing low-cost hosting services since 1998. PowWeb claims themselves as one of the few web hosting companies that stands on our own two feet as the hosting company develops its own custom hosting software and automation scripts.
Their entire infrastructure was built, developed, and operate in-house by programmers and developers. PowWeb offers just one simple shared hosting plan – they named it "One Plan" packages. The shared hosting plan comes with unlimited hosting capacity and loads of advance hosting features including their "Load Balanced Technology".
PowWeb – Editor’s Review
There are both positive and negative points with PowWeb services but in overall, we think PowWeb hosting is doing okay. Here is what we think about their hosting services.
What’s good about PowWeb Hosting?
- Reliable hosting with good uptime record – PowWeb gets a 99.8% server uptime, which is incredibly high for hosting at this price range.
- Extremely cheap – you can host unlimited websites at PowWeb with just $3.88/mo!
- PowWeb offers 30 days trial period, you’ll get full refund if you cancel your account within this period..
- Free marketing credits – get $50 Google Adwords credits and $25 Yahoo! Sponsored Search Credits once signed up.
- Acceptable server reliability – PowWeb 99.6% server uptime record is not as good as some other web host but we think it’s okay for web host in this price range.
- Free bonuses worth $700 including valuable web apps like RatePoint as well as marketing tools like Link Worth.
- Provide different level of hosting (shared, VPS, dedicated) – grow your website without worrying about web host upgrades.
What’s bad about PowWeb Hosting?
- Slow customer supports – PowWeb deal is quite a good bargain but they receive quite some complaints on slow and unfriendly customer supports.
- Hosting choice is limited – customers who wish to upgrade their current shared hosting plan to dedicated hosting will need to switch hosting.
Conclusion: Is PowWeb hosting recommended?
PowWeb server uptime is absolutely stunning and we think they are good for experienced webmasters who are looking for cheap hosting. As their customer supports received quite some complaints, we do not recommend newbies (who are more likely to contact the supports) to go with PowWeb hosting.
PowWeb Uptime Review
PowWeb server reliability is magnificent. As from our tracked record, PowWeb hosting is averaging around 99.8% server uptime – which we think is extremely good for hosting service in this price range (PowWeb charge $3.88/mo).
For your reference, figure on right side shows PowWeb Hosting uptime statistic for the past 7 days.
Latest PowWeb Reviews by Customers
Review submitted on March 31st, 2009
Been with powweb for over 5 years but had enough of them. Not the worst but there are far better hosts out there.
My particular beef with powweb is that they raised their fees without any warning at the time when new customers were offered less than half of price for the same service. When enquired, they promised to review the issue and advise accordingly. Sure enough they didn’t and were MIA until I called to cancel the service. Suddenly they became responsive again. Tech support is ok. Mail server is painfully slow, i mean painfully slow. Emails would arrive hours or days later. Their email server been down frequently. Reliability and uptime however is one of the very best.
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