About Powweb
Founded in 1999, Powweb is one of the largest hosting providers out there. Because of this they are able to offer tons of bandwidth, disk space, and features for a low price. Because the hosting area is becoming increasingly commoditized, the needs of future customers will swing more towards reliability and support. Companies will have to improve their services to stay competitive. Powweb is a great example of a company that is always trying to improve. Powweb is constantly instituting improvements - they have improved their bandwith, disk space, webmail, control panel all in the last 6 months.
Price & Capacity
Powweb offers a single plan for $7.77 per month. If you sign up under one of their 2-year specials that give you 14 months free you can actually lower your per month cost to $4.90 per month. With this you get 300 GB of disk space and 3000 GB of transfer. This is an unbeatable deal. Although Powweb’s single plan doesn’t allow you to switch up to a higher plan, Powweb’s philosophy is that they want to give you so much available capacity that you won’t need a better plan. They are constantly increasing their available bandwidth and disk space. For example, from 2003 to 2007 they increased their bandwidth gradually from 60 GB to 3000 GB. Powweb’s plan will meet the needs of 99.9% of all web sites. For the rare web sites that get up to 5,000-15,000 visitors they may need to switch to a lower-cost dedicated hosting.
Features
Powweb has a very easy to use Control Panel with many features. In February of 2006 they did a redesign of their control panel to make it more user-friendly. They also have many scripts, script installers, and ecommerce options. They offer CGI-bin, web stats, SSL Secure Server, Frontpage Extensions, DNS Control, 5 MySQL databases, and web-based e-mail.
Reliability and Support
Powweb has always had their fair share of dissapointed customers. Because of this Powweb has a lukewarm reputation for reliability. But this has a lot to do with the fact that they are such a big company. Like AOL, they are a fast-growing mass-market company who has such a large customer base to please that you will always be hearing a few dissenting voices. They have load-balanced servers to spread out the traffic and I think as their grow slows you will see improving levels of uptime. Their customer support is also improving as they added chat support alongside their e-mail and phone support. They also offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.
One of the most under-rated features of Powweb is their extremely busy and helpful forum. Their admins and other users help you solve many of the problems you will have. The system will send a bandwidth notice email to the Administrative Email on the account when you reach 75% of monthly bandwidth quota.
Hi, I've been a webmaster for many years and have experience with many of the top web hosting providers out there. I have thoroughly reviewed and rated the
I would highly recommend Powweb, I have had nothing but good thing things about them.
First off, their uptime is just like they say it is: 99.9%. When I went down for 2 hours. 2 HOURS! They were very sorry, and emailed everyone that was affected and told them that they get 6 monthes free. Just like that. I know that I didn’t complain or even ask for it because I knew stuff like this happens. So right off the bat that occured.
Another time, I screwed something up. I emailed the support team and asked what I should do. He wrote me an email back that said he fixed it for me and their was no need to worry about it.
Finally, the migration. While it did not go super smoothly, it went very well. I had a problem, and again, the tech’s fixed it before I did anything.
The only thing that I do not like is the fact that you only get 5 MySQL databases and you only get 400gb/month. While that isn’t a low number, to get just 10gb more, it costs $20.
All I can say is that I am going to be a customor of Powweb for a long time.