POWWEB Review

PowWeb, Inc. launched in 1999 with the goal of being "the perfect hosting solution". Hosting thousands of websites, PowWeb has established a leadership position in the budget web hosting industry by meeting the needs of home internet users and small to medium sized busnesses.

Using BGP4 technology PowWeb is multihomed to Tier 1 backbone providers. Currently, PowWeb has two (2) Gigabit feeds provided by InterNap and Verio, this ensures that your website is up and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

PowWeb was the first web hosting provider to offer large monthly bandwidth with their hosting plan. They have been around since 1999 and have built up a good reputation in the cheap web hosting market. PowWeb offers one single hosting plan and is hosting over 110,000 domains.

PowWeb has their own custom control panel, called the Member Operations Center. Most web hosts use commercial control panel software such as CPanel or Plesk. The demo will show you the features inside OPS. It is actually quite powerful and easy to use. It handles most of the basic tasks, from billing to setting up email accounts and registering new domain names.

Email support at PowWeb is very good and effective. PowWeb are able to answer all our questions in few hours. They've also added a toll-free line to their office. The line is available to US and Canadian customers only. Live chat support is also available now!

Faq: They are also doing a great job of preparing a lot of frequently asked questions (FAQ) in their web site. You can find a lot of solutions to your common problems and also a lot of tips and tricks, such as how to create custom error message, how to do HTTP streaming for real audio and many more.

Community forum: They also provide an online community forum as a place for their customers to meet (Just like LunarPages). It is a good place to meet some other PowWeb customers who are willing to help each other out. Web host with an open forum usually means they are quite confident of their services because they allow open discussion about them. An active forum with lots of customers also means that they have a successful and established business. Their forum has more than 13,000 members!

Free Domain Name Registration
If you are registering a new domain name for your hosting account, PowWeb will register it for you for free. This offer is only apply to 1-year or 2-years order. If you are transferring your domain/website to PowWeb, you will NOT get another free domain name.

Conclusion
Large disk space and bandwidth, unlimited domain hosting, good customer support (email support, toll-free & live chat), large useful FAQ and community forum to seek for help. Get a free domain name when you purchase for 1 year or 2 years of hosting!