BlueHost Review

Established in 1999, PowWeb is a known leader in the Web hosting industry by offering low costs and meeting its client's needs.

The company has been awarded 9 awards during its nine years of operation. Some of the honors received include the 2006 Editor’s Pick award from hosting-review.com, an Editor’s Choice award findmyhost.com and the Top-5 Award in 2004 from hostingreview.com.

Reliability:PowWeb uses load-balanced Web hosting to ensure maximum uptime. On its Web site it guarantees 99.9 percent infrastructure availability. PowWeb prides itself as being able to "stand on its own two feet." It develops its own custom Web hosting software and automation. It’s entire infrastructure was built and developed in-house. PowWeb manages, owns and operates its entire network and its equipment. PowWeb uses BGP4 technology. With BGP4, the company is multi-homed to Tier 1 backbone providers for the best routing and redundancy.

Support:Support: PowWeb provides customers with a searchable online Support Center on its Web site. The center includes articles written by technical experts on a range of topics that include everything from marketing services to scripting. If a customer still needs help after browsing the knowledge base, he or she can look at list of other Web sites PowWeb links to its customers. There is also a technical support hotline.

Price:PowWeb is currently $5.77 / month for the first year, increasing to $7.77 for the following years. Customers can sign up for a three month, one year or three year contract.

Web Host Specifications:

• Unlimited Disk Space (Raid Storage)
• Unlimited Data Transfer / Bandwidth
• Load Balanced TechnologyTM
• Member Operations Control Panel
• DNS Management (A records, Cnames, MX records)
• Sub-Domains
• 24-hour, seven days a week FTP Access, Unlimited FTP Users (separate directories)
• Web-Based File Manager
• Password Protect Directories
• Custom Error Pages (403,404, and 500)
• SnapShot Instant Click and Restore Daily Backups
• Rock Solid Unix Platform
• FrontPage 98/2000/2002 Extensions
• PHP4 & PHP5 w/Zend Optimizer, Perl5, Sendmail
• CGI-BIN, SSI, .htaccess, Cronjobs
• Flash, Shockwave, Midi, Multimedia Support
• 75 MySQL Databases
• phpMyAdmin
• Daily Database Backups
• Webalizer & AwStats Web Statistics
• Unlimited Mailboxes (POP3/IMAP and SMTP)
• WebMail Access (secure login)
• Unlimited E-mail Forwarding/E-mail Aliases
• Spam Filters (allow/block & Greylisting features)
• DNS Text Record/SMTP+SPF