General Impression
IXWebHosting, Inc. is a privately owned, multi-million dollar corporation located in Columbus, OH was founded in 1999.
Today, the company provides shared web hosting services to approximately 150,000 top websites. By focusing on service while maintaining
affordability, the company provides service that meets the unique needs of each client and exceeds their wildest performance expectations.
Customers and vendors across the globe can agree that IXWebHosting is truly the future of managed hosting.
Facts & Figures
Customer Base: Over 150,000
Registered Domains: 555,459 Market Share: 2.6856 %
Servers: 1500
Location: USA
*** The figures are as of Wednesday 10th of March 2010.
Price & Cost Effectiveness
IXWebHosting offers decent pricing on their web hosting plans. For a mere $3.95 a month,
you receive Unlimited Disk Space and Unlimited Data Transfer or Bandwidth, this is the basic plan but then it is so rich with features that it will suite the needs
of even a small business enterprise. They also have linux based plans that cost $7.45 a month.
We suggest you look into the plan details so that you get to know more about what the plans have to offer. We think it is simply awesome.
For someone who is looking to get a windows based web hosting plans so that they may use ASP, ASP.NET, MS Access, MSSQL... they should
go with the Unlimited Pro Plan that costs $7.95 a month with no Setup Fee.
Note: If you sign up for 3 or 6 months you need to pay a $30.00 setup fee but if you sign up for 12 or 24 months the one time setup fee of $30.00 is waived off..
Let's quickly look at what the other 2 top web hosts have to offer with respective to what IXWebHosting is offering.
| Company |
Price |
Disk Space |
Data Transfer |
Domains |
Mailboxes |
Free Domain |
Databases |
Support 24/7 |
Setup fee |
|
IXWebHosting |
$3.95 |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
1 |
50 |
Yes |
No |
| Blue Host |
$3.95 |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
2500 |
1 |
100 |
Yes |
No |
| 1and1 |
$3.99 |
10,000 MB |
Unlimited |
1 |
600 |
1 |
Nil |
No |
No |
Ok if you have compared the plans you will notice that IXWebHosting's $3.95 / month package is in competition with what Blue Host gives for
$6.45 / month currently there is a deal going on for $3.95 / month which is a holiday special and it going to last till the end of December but if you
are looking to host more domains and also use a database then you should simply go with the Unlimited Pro package which cost $7.95 / month and comes with loads of features.
Take a quick look at the table below to see what IXWebHosting offers with the $7.95 / month package.
| Company |
Price |
Disk Space |
Data Transfer |
Domains |
Mailboxes |
Free Domain |
Databases |
Support 24/7 |
Setup fee |
| IXWebHosting |
$7.95 |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
3 |
50 |
Yes |
No |
FYI, if you get the Unlimited Pro Plan for 3 months you pay $11.95 / month and a one time setup fee $30.00 and for 1 year it is $8.95 / month with no setup fee.
Signing up for 12, 24 or 36 months results in the setup fee being waived off plus you pay 1 dollar less per month.
Data Center
IXWebHosting uses Dell Power Edge 2650 servers, with their data center located in Columbus, OH.
Their latest servers are quad Xeon 2.4 GHz Xeon processors, with 6 GB of memory and three 70 GB Raid Disk Drive. Compared to other
web hosting companies, they dominate over any other server offered by any Web Hosting company. They currently use state of the art net
infrastructure equipment and plan to offer many new features in the future such as load balancing. The Data Center is located in Columbus, OH.
Furthermore, they are connected to premium Redundant OC-12 Loops through TW Telecom. As a result, you will get above average web hosting
performance and reliability that other providers normally charge a premium for.
Customer Service
Personally, customer support is always my first criteria for picking a web host, it comes before price, size and everything else.
This is because I have had very bad experiences with some hosts that offer a lot in terms of price and size but were unable to solve simple issues.
The first thing I always do to test a web host is actually to mass-mail them with a lot of questions even before I buy! The host which
deserves my money would be the host that will patiently reply to all my questions in a prompt and detailed manner. The most disgusting hosts
are those which are unable to resolve simple issues for days, or are unable to keep track of the client’s history and repeatedly request
you to describe the same issue. Some even keep bouncing your requests between different departments.
So far, the best customer support staff that I have met is the one from IXWebHosting. Honestly I haven't seen a host
that is as dedicated as IXWebHosting when it comes to customer support. They have a very well trained support staff and I believe
IXWebHosting invests a lot on customer support. Other web hosts which can provide me with good customer support are BlueHost, Globat
and iPowerWeb. All the other hosts that I am recommending in this top 10 chart have also been very satisfactory in terms of customer support.
Control Panel
IXWebHosting currently utilizes the latest version of the Hsphere control panel.
The features are pretty much similiar to other control panels like CPanel. The Hsphere control panel has a main menu on the left side from
where you can navigate to the sub menus. On the main screen of the control panel you will see icons from where you can manage your accounts
like adding of domains, configuring the domains, adding emails, FTP accounts, a file manager which is a kind of a graphical user shell access
or to be precise something like a file manager.
We could say the control panel is full of features and it is been heard that IXWebHosting is in a process of launching its own powerful
control panel in the near future.
View Screenshots of the Hosting Control Panel
Overall
IXWebHosting is definitely a choice of web hosting for many users.
Not only does it score tops with best features for the price, but it is also great because you can call toll-free when you are in need of
assistance. Other companies offering plans this low normally require that you e-mail them for support inquires, and even if they did provide
support over the phone, there would be long distance charges.
Give
IXWebHosting a shot and you will not regret it
Linux / Unix Platform
Expert Plan:Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Traffic, Unlimited Emails, 1 Free domain, 50 MySQL Databases. @ $3.95/ month
Expert Plan Available Billing Cycle:
36 Months Price: $3.95 /month - Special Promotion
24 Months Price: $3.95 /month - Special Promotion
12 Months Price: $4.95 /month
3 Months Price: $7.95 /month
1 Months Price: $9.95 /month
Unlimited Pro Plan:Unlimited MB Disk Space, Unlimited Traffic, Unlimited Sub domains,3 Free domain, 50 MySQL Databases. @ $7.45/ month - Special Promo
Unlimited Pro Plan Available Billing Cycle:
36 Months Price: $7.95 /month - Special Promotion
24 Months Price: $7.95 /month - Special Promotion
12 Months Price: $8.95 /month
3 Months Price: $11.95 /month + $30 setup fee
1 Months Price: $16.95 /month + $30 setup fee
Business Plus Plan:Unlimited Disk Space, UnlimitedB Traffic, Unlimited Sub domains, 2 Free domain, 50 MySQL Databases. @ $7.95/ month - Special Promo
Business Plus Plan Available Billing Cycle:
36 Months Price: $7.95 /month
24 Months Price: $7.95 /month
12 Months Price: $8.95 /month
3 Months Price: $11.95 /month + $30 setup fee
1 Months Price: $13.95 /month + $30 setup fee
Windows Platform
Business Windows:Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Traffic, Unlimited Sub domains, 3 Free domain, 50 Databases. @ $9.95/ month
Business Windows Plan Available Billing Cycle:
36 Months Price: $9.95 /month
24 Months Price: $9.95 /month
12 Months Price: $10.95 /month
3 Months Price: $13.95 /month + $30 setup fee
1 Months Price: $15.95 /month + $30 setup fee
Unlimited Pro Windows:Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Traffic, Unlimited Sub domains, 5 Free domain, 100 Databases. @ $14.95/ month
Unlimited Pro Plan Available Billing Cycle:
36 Months Price: $9.95 /month
24 Months Price: $9.95 /month
12 Months Price: $10.95 /month
3 Months Price: $13.95 /month + $30 setup fee
1 Months Price: $18.95 /month + $30 setup fee
Contact Information
Head Office:
Ecommerce Corporation
1774 Dividend Drive
Columbus, OH 43228
Support:
Phone (US only): 1.800.385.0450
Email: sales@ixwebhosting.com
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