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#1 Web
Hosting Solution for Small Business! PowWeb - $7.77/
Month!
PowWeb began web hosting in 1999, and now serves over
70,000 customers. They do not publish any uptime guarantee
on their servers, but people who have been monitoring the
uptimes for their web sites reported uptimes of 99.7% to
99.9% on average. PowWeb have a user forum which anyone can
join whether or not they are customers and have full access
to the discussions. They can ask all the relevent questions
before making a decision as to whether to purchase their
hosting plan or not.
The customer support is good, although the toll-free
phone support is only available 14 hours a day on weekdays,
and 5 hours a day at weekends. Not 24/7 support, which many
web hosting companies provide. PowWeb does provide live
chat, and 24/7 email support. They also provide a 30 day
money back guarantee.
PowWeb provides just one web hosting plan: PowValue for
$7.77 per month, free setup. PowValue uses a Unix
platform, and with it comes a free domain name, 5GB disk
space, 300GB monthly data transfer, 650 email accounts, and
FrontPage 98/2000/2002 extensions. PowWeb provides the
OSCommerce shopping cart, and CGI, PHP and Perl scripting
and programming. The MySQL database is provided along with
the phpMyAdmin interface. This hosting plan however does
not provide autoresponders, which many other hosting plans
do, although many people use autoresponders provided by
third party companies, rather than those provided by the
web host.
PowWeb supply their own custom built control panel for
users to administer their web sites: the "Member Operations
Center". This is powerful and easy to use, and handles
tasks such as billing, setting up email accounts, and
registering new domains, as well as managing files.
PowWeb's backbone includes a high speed OC12/48
connection for efficient and reliable performance. Powweb's
Network Operations Center (NOC) is located in the Garland
Building in Los Angeles, California. The facility serves to
fulfill the main needs for a network center: security,
redundancy, and scalability. Security staff are on site
24/7, with digital surveillance cameras and palm scanners
mapped around the area. Backups are conditioned utilizing
Hot Sync technology. Powweb's choice of Internap bandwidth,
Dell PowerEdge servers with 9 terabytes of NetApp File
Storage space ensures ever lasting availability and speed
for hosted sites. |
