Product Review: PowWeb Web Hosting

About the company: PowWeb is one of the few web hosting companies that stands on our own two feet. We develop our own custom web hosting software and automation tailored directly to our customers' needs. Our entire infrastructure was built and developed in-house by our programmers and developers to cater to our satisfied customers. We manage, own, and operate our entire network and all of our equipment.

The big pitch: 5000MB web storage, 300GB transfer, free setup and domain, and load balanced servers for just $7.77 per month. And they offer a 30-day guarantee!

Finding the right web hosting for your website can be a real drag. You read a lot about one company, they seem great, and so you move your website to them, only to find the hype was all smoke and mirrors and now you can't transfer your website for another three months. Ack! So it pays to read product reviews to see what other people think of the hosting company you're planning on using.

We took a good long look at PowWeb and were surprised to find that it didn't seem to have nearly as much smoke, and no mirrors that we could see, leaving services like GoDaddy in the dust in terms of uptime, value for money, and flexibility.

PowWeb is a member of the Better Business Bureau, so you know they'll engage only in ethical business practices (which a few other companies I could name could learn a thinig or two about), and they offer, in their words, "Everything you need for only $7.77 per month" - including a free domain name. Good deal.

One neato thing PowWeb does is 'load balance' their servers, meaning your website won't just be one one machine, but will be hosted on five different servers. That means if one goes down for whatever reason, the other four can take the burden of expanded traffic on without any interruption in service. Most hosting companies will put your site on just one server, which means you could well see your site disappear on a Friday afternoon and have nobody there to reboot it until Monday morning. Not good!

Another great thing about PowWeb is that they have staff monitoring the system 24/7, so if there is a problem, there's someone there to fix it. Along similar lines, they'll give you free email or phone customer support, with toll-free numbers to make it all cheap and easy.

Lastly, PowWeb creates its own hardware and software to suit its own needs, so bugs that appear in server software that brings down networks across America don't necessarily hurt your website on their servers.

The Product Trends Rating: As always, try before you buy, read up on everything and be sure that PowWeb suits your needs, and if you're still in doubt, make use of their 30-day money back guarantee, but if you're looking for an opinion on whether we think you should try it out, we give PowWeb a big thumbs up. Four stars

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posted by Oz @ 5:41 PM