Powweb Review

Host Website: http://www.powweb.com

About PowWeb

Powweb has been operating since 1999 and is one of those self-made web hosting service providers who have developed the whole infrastructure in-house (and maintain it in-house too). They use their own web hosting software and keep bringing in upgrades to the same. They highlight ‘Reliability’, ‘Quality’ and ‘Performance’ as their strong points. They offer economical web hosting that is especially suited for small-medium size businesses. “Load balanced” web hosting is what they label their web hosting as.

Powweb Hosting plans

Powweb is really unique when it comes to hosting plans. Instead of offering several hosting plans, it packs everything into a single web hosting plan. This hosting plan is just $7.77 per month. So, they boast of giving best value for money. Well, it does look like best value for money since the disk space on this package is 20 GB and the bandwidth is 400 GB per month. Moreover, they keep coming up with attractive offers e.g. 6 months of hosting free with 1 year of paid web hosting. But note that there is a $30 setup fee that you will need to pay if you buy web hosting for 3 months or less. This is waived if you buy web hosting for 1 year or more (and you also get free domain name with it).

Other stuff included in the package

Script instant installer (which they claim to be better than Fantastico) is also a part of the package. WordPress, phpBB, OsCommerce etc are included. PHP, Perl, frontpage extensions, flash, shockwave support is also part of the deal. Since there is just one hosting package, its easy to understand what all is included and what all is not. Oscommerce shopping card, SSL shared secure certificate and facility to accept paypal payments are all included. There are several tools and web templates that are included for free too.

Customer support

It seems that powweb hasn’t left any stone unturned in terms of customer support. Besides providing toll-free technical support, they also provide 24/7 instant live chat help (which is very handy). Of course, other things like tutorials, support documentation, email support etc are available too. They also have a very active community forum which they claim to be one of the largest on the internet. So, Powweb are really committed to providing the best customer support. Moreover, they also provide a 30 day money back guarantee (just in case you are not happy with their hosting services).

Reliability

Powweb has built and developed all the infrastructure in-house. They also use load-balanced servers which helps them provide one of the best uptimes in the web hosting world. Load balancing helps them remove dependencies on individual servers so that there is no downtime when there is server maintenance or hardware failure etc.

All in all, powweb does look one of the most impressive web hosts that have all the right ingredients in terms of technology, infrastructure and commitment towards serving customers.