PowWeb.com Hosting Review

PowWeb.com Company Background

PowWeb was founded in 1999 primarily as a web hosting provider. To complement its core business as a hosting company, it also offers web site management, domain registration and services, email services, e-commerce services, scripting and site add-on services and marketing services to its clients. The bulk of its clients are individuals and small businesses and its strong suit is its ability to provide a very affordable hosting package for those clients while maintaining superb technical support . Powweb focuses on the needs that are peculiar to the small business and expends a lot of energy in simplifying its hosting plan and automating its hosting features to enable its clients to be more successful at their core business and less time trying fiddling with their websites.

Key Features of The PowWeb Hosting Plan

Powweb offers a single hosting plan for all of its clients. The intent is to simplify its hosting solution and provide a single standard set of hosting features that customers can easily understand without having to find a decoder ring to decipher the offerings. Its simple "One Plan" package offers a competitive shared hosting plan solution with plenty of disk space, transfer bandwidth and lots of features. The One Plan package features a rock solid unix hosting environment, 3000GBytes monthly data transfer allocation, 300GBytes of disk space, web based file manager, unlimited email addresses, free website statistics, 75 MySQL databases, free website builder software, one free domain name with with unlimited domain hosting for a monthly fee of $5.77 on a one year or two year hosting contract.

As part of the hosting package, PowWeb also includes e-commerce ready tools such as the ShopSite Shopping Cart, the built-in OsCommerce Shopping Cart, and SSL - Shared Secure Certificate. In addition, it provides a $30 credit towards a Google Adwords campaign and a $50 credit towards a Yahoo! sponsored search campaign. PowWeb develops and supports its own server software and maintains a toll free technical phone support, in addition to a round-the-clock email technical support. Also, every contract comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.

Support and Reliability

Unlike many other web hosting providers, PowWeb maintains its own datacenter and infrastructure. Powweb continuously invests in its infrastructure, hardware and software to ensure the most reliable data storage and transfers are served to its hosted websites. Its datacenter is monitored and supported by support personnel 24 hours per day. Its network infrastructure is protected by redundant generators to mitigate potential power failures. Powweb maintains the proprietary load balancing technology that allows its hosted websites to load very quickly and reliably. Its system data is backed up on an automated schedule to fault tolerant Storage systems to prevent data loss. As a result, PowWeb is able to guarantee a 99.9% up time for all of its clients.

PowWeb also maintains a friendly force of knowledgeable technical support staff around the clock to answer questions and provide solutions either by email or by phone.

Awards and Certifications

PowWeb continuously monitors its infrastructure to defend against hackers and is a member of Hacker Safe. Hacker Safe certification is achieved by passing rigorous daily network security audits.