IXWebHosting is a web hosting company with 10 years history. When many other web hosting companies are busy outsourcing their business, IXWebHosting builds its own data centers, develops control panel software. With this strategy, they hold a balance between cost and performance and earn a good reputation in the industry.
1. Overview of Hosting Plans (Click for Plan Details)
IXWebHosting provides three hosting plans: Expert, Business and Unlimited. These plans share some common features including: hosting unlimited multiple domains, unlimited space and bandwidth, MySQL support, etc. The plans provide features which most usual Linux/PHP share web hosting companies supports.
Windows hosting is available with Business and Unlimited plan. The features include ASP/ASP.NET, Cold Fusion, MS Access, Microsoft SQL 2005, ODBC/DSN. If you need a windows hosting plan, Expert plan should not be your option. As for database features, MySQL database and PostgreSQL database is limited to 50 with Expert and Business plan. And the total database quota is 1GB, 5GB and 10GB with Expert, Business and Unlimited plan respectively. Providing FREE dedicated IP addresses is the most impressive feature of IXWebHosting. We have to pay about $30/year for a single dedicated IP address in the plans of other web hosting companies. Providing up to 15 free IP addresses is definitely a big-save.
2. Pros
The plans of IXWebHosting have low prices with powerful features and high enough performance. The plans with less than $5/month are classified as cheap share web hostings in the industry. Most reputable web hosting companies are competing in this market and providing such plans. However, many similar plans have limitations, such as limited multiple domains and limited database. The Expert plan priced at $3.95/month is powerful enough for most startup web sites which are based on those hosting plans priced higher than $5/month.
The speed of IXWebHosting servers is satisfying. I use a world wide ping service to detect a real web site on IXWebHosting servers. Ping from different place in US and Canada, the ping time varies from 30 to 80 ms. In Europe, the ping time varies from 90 to 150 ms. It is not fantastic but fast enough and in common level.
Free dedicated IP addresses are another big advantage. Dedicated IPs are very useful in SEO. In addition, IXWebHosting provides 1 – 3 free domains, as long as you use its web hosting service.
3. Cons
The FTP servers are not friendly to resume uploading. Because the FTP server does not support the REST command, the FTP client must overwrite the whole file. And the FTP connections are limited to 32. That means, all users on the same server share these connections when uploading. I have been refused to connect the FTP server for several times because of this limitation.
Not supporting SSH is another disadvantage. Some advance webmasters use SSH to run UNIX shell commands to complete some background tasks. Many web hosting giant companies, such as HostMonster, support SSH.
4. Conclusion
IXWebHosting is one of my recommendation in cheap web hosting market. I am impressed with the low price with powerful features and free dedicated IPs. It’s a good option for web sites and blogs with not so much traffic. Webmasters can rely on these low price plans until their web sites generate some money.
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