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Hostcue Rating 9.0 - Excellent

Member's Rating 6.0

Pros The company offers an excellent uptime of 99.9%. The servers are really fast and the load balanced. The features provided are really a value for money at $7.77/month. The setup is free and you also get one-year free domain name registration. The technical support staff is really efficient and knowledgeable.

Cons They offer only one plan.

Who should use PowWeb Inc.? We would recommend PowWeb to anyone who needs large amounts of storage and data transfer combined with top-notch support and multiple website tools at a value for money rate. Their hosting plan is perfect for both individuals and small to medium sizes businesses as you are assured a high level of space and bandwidth to maintain the largest of sites. Their infrastructure is world-class and their own, so rest assured that any server issue that comes up will be solved by their own hands and can give immediate notice to customers.

Review Breakdown

Price: 9 The company offers abundant features for just $7.77/month along with free setup and free domain name registration.

Value: 9 Currently, PowWeb is the top 3500 most visited website in the world. PowWeb has earned a reputable position in web hosting industry. WebHostMagazine.com commented PowWeb as “A Great Pick! Definitely a must see”. Today, PowWeb hosts 60,000 client Websites at its Los Angeles network operations center as well as technical support staff in Los Angeles, Texas, Minnesota and Washington State.

Service: 9 The key feature of the site is their PowWeb Plan. They offer only one plan that suits all. Their "One Plan" monthly package is so simple--comprehensive yet inexpensive--that it's rated number one for performance, reliability, and value. Their exclusive “One Plan” offers the following features.

Disk Space: 12GB
Bandwidth: 10GB/Day
Fee: 7.77$ per month
Uptime Guarantee: 99.9%
Free Domain Name (yourname.com)

The reason we like their plan is that their plan includes most of the important features needed for small to medium sized businesses. Apart from huge disk space, bandwidth and 5 MySQL database, you are also entitled to a built-in supporting cart, SSL. Website builder and other promotional tools to jumpstart your business.

Also the huge storage space allows you to setup as many sub-domains as you like. Another trust worthy feature is that their control panel does not support email auto responders.

Technical Support: 9 We have evaluated lots of web hosting companies regarding their customer care and support facilities but concluded PowWeb amongst the best ones. Their support is also exceptional and because they manage only one plan. They possess a group of specialized customer service staff to address any issue you might have.

PowWeb has the “Community Forum” which has the largest community in the hosting industry. They manage well over 18,000 members in their forum. Once you post your question you get loads of help from moderators, tech groups and their satisfied customers also. Their forums are live and crowded all the time more than 500 users in the forum at any given time.

The email support is very friendly and can work with you in just any problem you might face.
They also have a tutorial section that gives you step-by-step instructions of the most commonly used features of PowWeb plan.
PowWeb provides all kinds of support channels we can possibly think of to help you resolve your problems in the shortest time possible. And their customer support system has become the benchmark of our evaluation on other web hosts.

Setup Time: 9 The setup is free, fast and instant with PowWeb.

Customer Support Response Time: 8 The customer response time is really fast; we tested their response time and got answered in a professional manner and with great relevance in an optimal time.

Server Speed: 9 The infrastructure of the company is uniquely their own, built and developed in house. PowWeb's proprietary architecture and infrastructure were designed and built from the ground up by their team of developers and programmers. Their system is scaled to host up to hundreds of thousands of domains. Their "Clustering/Load Balancing" of servers is not only fault tolerant; it eliminates all single points of failure allowing them to give you superior performance. PowWeb provides one of the best uptime for their customers in the web hosting industry. Their server’s specs are so powerful; all are Dell servers using dual P4 3.05 GH processors, with massive 8Gigs of DDR ram, giving your website outstanding speed and stability.

Connection Speed: 8 Unlike most hosting companies PowWeb runs its own data center, with 1-tier connection using latest BGP 4 technology. This means multiple bandwidth providers, so you are sure your website always gets the fastest network connection speed and automatically switching networks in the event of any one’s being down.

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