Powweb Review & Powweb Coupon $3.88/mth – Powweb Hosted

Today after two weeks this blog is running at powweb hosting, its time to get serious to business, and secure the site. I mean make sure the data is safe and backup. I dont want to lost it, when server crash etc. Not that in shared hosting environment, anything disaster could happen. Its adviced that you do backup of your website daily or weekly. I choose to backup weekly on my blog hosted with powweb. Not much updates per week. Its fine with me.

Login to powweb OPS, and under the website management, you will see the site backups and restore. Click on it. Powweb Site Backups and Restore tool allows you to restore files from PowWeb’s system backups. You have the option of restoring files automatically by replacing your current files with the backed-up versions or downloading them and restoring your content manually.

PowWeb’s system backups are only kept for a few days. So, you are adviced to backup your websites locally and keep a good archieve of it. This will be useful when you need to restore your websites. One problem is that you can not use the backup and restore tools to restore SQL databases. Meaning you have to take a trip to phpmyadmin to do the database importing.

I ticked on the htdocs/ folder and click the download zip archieve on the bottom. After that i was prompt with a “siteBackups” documents, and asked to save it locally. This backup is directly, and not need to wait or email to me thing as we see in cpanel backup tools. The zip backups start downloading and done in short time. My site is not big, so backup is easier. I keep this backup at my local Pc, and the backup job is done.

Powweb is a good $5.77 hosting plan with  300GB storage space.
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If you are new to powweb hosting, then you should know about powweb OPS before signup up. Powweb is not using cpanel or vdeck control panel for their shared hosting. Instead they develop their own control panel, and named it OPS. You can easily login to this control panel from powweb homepage.

After 2 weeks hosting with powweb, and also using this OPS to setup my website and configure it. I have to say that its feature rich and provide all you want. Its bit hard to navigate at the first time. Cause you need to understand the structure of the OPS.. where the thing you want are located. Once you know the sitemap, then its piece of cake.

Above is the screenshot of the powweb ops. Not to get yourself confused. Only look at the quick links section at the middle of the OPS screen. Here is all what you need to manage your website, create new ftp account, .htaccess editing, do email management, domain management, and update personal information, etc. What you need, name it.. will be found here.

Powweb .htaccess editor is very unique, and provide the interface to help you make the .htaccess editing. You can do page redirection, custom error page, IP blocking, password protection for folder etc. All these is just clicks away. No hassle with manual .htaccess editing, although you can overwrite it. To manual overwrite, ftp login to powweb server, go to htdocs folder and the .htaccess is there, editing it manually from there.

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Finally i decided to signup powweb.com shared hosting plan. After a month plus heard of this web hosting, and run few details research on powweb. I am convience that powweb is a good host. Hopefully i will getting to the right hosting now. So, i signup powweb. The signup process is simple and easy, i captured a few printscreen, and will show it after this one after another. So you will get an idea of how the signup process look like.

Go to www.powweb.com and at powweb homepage, you will find the sign up button. Click on it will bring you to the sign up page. Select the sign up plan that you prefer, i would suggest 12 months plan, or 24 months for best value. Next, domain selection section. Enter your new domain name or use existing domain name of yours. For sign up of 12 months and above, the domain registration is going to be free. For me, i already got the powwebreview.org registered through godaddy previously, so i not going to get extra domain names. Next, you will go to step 2: confirm selection

This is just the confirmation of hosting plan that you selected. Next you will go to fill in account information. Step 3: Account Information. At here, fill in the username and password, email address, and your personal information.

 Step 4: check out. Fill in your credit card information, billing address etc.

Once you completed the billing information. You are done. You will see the thank you message.

Right after i complete the registration, i receive an email from support [at] powweb.com, and the message
“Thank you for choosing our PowWeb OnePlan, your
order has been processed successfully. We look forward to
working with you and helping you achieve online success.”

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Beside offering free automated domain renewal service, powweb also offering domain privacy service. Domain privacy allow you to hide your personal contact information, name, email, etc from public viewing.

“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN), the international governing body for domain names, requires every registrar to maintain a publicly accessible WHOIS database for all domain names registered. WHOIS records include the domain owners’ personal contact information: name, phone number and mailing and e-mail addresses.”

By subscribing to powweb domain privacy, your information will be protected from public. And instead of showing your information, powweb contact and emails will be shown.

Powweb charge for domain privacy for the price of $8.99 per domain for 12 months. To add domain privacy to your existing domain, logon to DomainCentral, and then click the Buy now link in the Privacy column for the domain. Following TLDs are eligible for powweb domain privacy: COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, .NAME, .CC, .TV.

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Powweb special rebate of $5 from hosting plan signup. This offers will end on 31th May 2007. Just a few more days remaining. And off-course this  offer is directly offer from pow web, not any affiliate coupon etc. This offer is valid only through signup from this powweb website link: http://www.powweb.com/powweb/specials/5off.bml

Before this, you are paying $69.24, after this special discount, you only pay for $64.24 only. Which is a $5 saving. This is the only offer available from powweb, and conjunction with May 2007, its given the $5 off. Wait no longer, and there is no other $6 or $7 or more special offers for other times.

Revisit this powweb review blog in future for more latest special offer directly from powweb hosting.

If you are looking forward to setup your own ecommerce website and start selling product or services online, definately powweb shared hosting will suite your need. Powweb hosting had been enhanced with ecommerce features, and either you can accept payment through paypal or through third party merchant provider.

From the hosting side, you can setup your ecommerce online store instantly. Through powweb control panel, go to ecommerce and install the oscommerce shopping cart. After installing this, follow the simple instruction to link your online store with paypal payment gateway, and you are ready to accept paypal payment or credit card payment through paypal.

If you not prefer paypal payment method, and prefering third party merchant provider. You can signup to services like 2checkout merchant processor. Or choose payment processing though powweb partners “InternetMerchant”. InternetMerchant offering their own shopping cart, ShopSite, and you can easy install it and use it to sell your product online. Its free setup, and only $0.25 per transaction fee

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Powweb offering shared hosting plan and domain name registration. Other than that, also offering dedicated IP, SSL etc. You definately need to know the pricing before sign up powweb hosting. Its a big mistake to signup before actually knowing the pricing structure of a hosting company. Don’t be supprise that certain hosting provider charged above $50 for the dedicated IP per year. However, this is a competitive market, and smart customer like you, will always check the price list before proceed with the purchase.

Powweb Pricing Structure:

• Hosting plan 3 months. $30 setup fee. Total $53.31
• Hosting plan 12 months. No setup fee. 1 year free domain name. Total $69.24
• Hosting plan 24 months. No setup fee. 2 year free domain name. Total $138.48
• Additional domain name registration price at $15 per year
• Dedicated IP not available. Only offering shared ip for the hosting server.
• Private SSL certificate not available. Only offering shared SSL.

Powweb hosting price mentioned above is valid for promotion/offer period. Which is still a valid offer. While the promo still ON, quickly Signup Powweb Hosting here

In the pass 1 year, i had been actively reviewing hosting provider and also their marketing plan which is usually powered by their affiliate program. Affiliate program plays a major role in determining the success of a hosting company. If your hosting sucks, but your affiliate program is well design, you business still will growing fast. Think another side, if your hosting plan is good, but your affiliate program sucks, then you not have the marketing force to push your business further. Thus, affiliate program does play an important role in the success of a hosting company.

Powweb affiliate program paid a fixed comission rate or $77.77 per sales refered. Their program is using cookies. Meaning that the visitor that you refered to powweb through your affiliate link, will have cookies keep tracking them. When they signup, you get paid.

Not too soon, you are not instantly get paid. For this, we need to go through the affiliate program agreement, and see how the payout looks like. There is two main point i like to point out here.

• new account must be active for 37 days.
• referral fees must be at least $77.77 to receive the payment.

I still cracking my head with some concern. Meaning if i refer a new customer and he only signup 3 month, paying $53.31. And after 37 days, i get paid $77.77. Which meaning, powweb is fork out extra $24.46 to me, and beside giving the 3 months ‘as free’. Well, how they going to make money, and another issue is, this will encourage fraud. Another example, if customer paying 12 months fee of $69.24 to powweb, and powweb paying me $77.77, thats another lost of $8.53 and 12 months hosting ‘as free’. I really not get it. But this is what they offering, so signup powweb here and enroll into their affiliate program as well.

There is only a few hosting company that offering load-balancing technology to shared hosting plan. Usualy this technology is adapt to dedicated server or colocation hosting where, customer paid higher hosting fees, and so can enjoy the good and quality load balanced hosting network. However, this technology had been adopt by powweb, and is now available at their $5.77 shared hosting plan.

Why load-balancing hosting helps?
Fact is that heavy traffic to your hosting server can ruin the server performance dramatically. When this single point or path is down or failed, then your website is totally unaccessible. Powweb is now load balancing their server, and now have multiple path to the destination. Powweb is distributing the load of a single web site across multiple physical servers. If one server goes down, there is no noticeable effect on end users and no downtime.Thus, this reduce the downtime problem.

$5.77 that you paid for, is getting you this redundant phsical server and network path. Signup Powweb with load-balancing technology.

Today drop by Powweb homepage and looking for something. And while browsing i found an interesting headline, powweb is hosted over 100,000 domains/websites, by april 2007. 100k is a new benchmark for them. And its hard to reach, especially to hosting that not offering multiple domains in single account. Powweb account only able to host single website. However this can be overwrite, refer to my post “Powweb Multiple Addon Domains“ and instruction given for how to add more domain name to powweb account/hosting.

Back to topic, based on my own review from the pass month, i strongly convience that powweb hosting will keep growing. This is due to their good customer support, good hosting services and quality servers. I been reading almost about 10 user testimonials, and its shows that powweb hosting is good. No wonder the hosted websites keep growing and now goes above 100k

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