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

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

Experience Powweb Hosting

Powweb $5.77 hosting plan can allow you to have single domain to be hosted. However from the powweb OPS, you still can add additional domain to your control panel. Small tweak to the .htaccess will change your powweb single domain hosting into multiple domains hosting

1. First, add a new domain name to OPS control panel. And wait for domain propagation to complete.
2. Create new folder for this domain, from FTP login.
3. Create a new .htaccess file for this domain folder, place it inside this folder.
4. Paste infollowing content:

   RewriteEngine On
   Options +FollowSymlinks
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain_name.tld
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subfolder/htdocs/
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ domain_name/htdocs/$1 [L]

5. Place your new domin files into ftp folder domain_name/htdocs/

By this you can add multiple domain names to powweb hosting. And its now become unlimited domain hosting. Alert that this method is legal, and not violate powweb term and condition etc.

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Its a nice weekend today, and i drop by Powweb forum site, and read a post feedback from powweb staff stating the upgrading powweb server softtware. Here is a quick reference of it:

• PHP 4.4.6
• PHP Version 5.2.1 (also available)
• MySQL Client API version 4.1.11
• MySQL Version 4.1.18
• phpMyadmin version v2.8.0.1
• Webserver is Apache 1.3.x

The upgrading will carry out in phases and time to time. And its in progress. If you have any special requirement on software versioning, email to support team to double confirm first.

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If you can to have a wordpress blogging website setup on Powweb Hosting, then definately this short and simple guide will help you. I always love to do all this manually, and keep a backup copyat my PC.

Here is checklist of how to setup blog at powweb:

1. Go to wordpress.org, and download the latest version of blog script.
2. Create a new database through powweb control panel, and add a new user to this mysql database. Assign it with full dba privelage will be just fine.
3. Unzip the wordpress script .zip, and look for “wp-config.php”, open this file with notepad, and change the mysql database connection parametre. Enter the database name, username, and password.
4. Upload this whole wordpress blog folder to server through FTP client.
5. Once done, you go to your website: http://www.yourdomain.com/
6. The wordpress installer will be seen. If there is error, change the wp-config.php and upload to server again.
7. Once you get the installer screen, follow the short prompt, and your installation will complete when you receive the login info at your email.
8. Login to your wordpress blog, and make the blog customization and start make posting.

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if you are beginner to web hosting, and you already get your website and files nicely created. Its time to move a copy of those website files to Powweb web server. Your only choice is to use FTP to upload your files to server. There is no other way.

Usually i will use FTP client to do the upload work. Will be faster is i set it to run in multithreading, few upload thread is always better than one. The FTP site is: ftp.yourdomain.com , and enter the powweb account username and password to proceed.

You can use ftp client like: cuteftp or WS_FTP. Other than this, you can use the build in ftp manager in dreamweaver as well

OK, if you dont have any of above ftp tools, then you can use your web browser, and go to ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com and enter the username and password to the prompt. By this you can copy paste file to the server easily and directly. However this method is slow, and should be your final option.

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If you are new to web hosting, i would suggest you to look for web host that offering money back guarantee. At least 30 days money guarantee. First place to look for is user review from google search engine, or from hoster forum. Here you will find many good and bad reviews about the host itself.

Powweb is offering 30 days money-back guarantee to new signup or new customer. During the 30 days, if you felt the powweb service is poor, or powweb sucks … you can send an email to support, and ask for a full refund. Yes, a full refund. thus, you got no risk at all at the first 30 days.

I visited powweb forums today, and saw a new comer that is new to powweb, asking about this money back guarantee. Its good before signup, you understand your right, and use it. If you come across hosting that don’t give you a refund, quickly contact the credit card company to file a dispute. Sure you will win the case

Have a happy stay with Powweb Hosting

If you are asking how many email you can send through Powweb mail server per day, the answer would be 4800 email per day, maximum. The limit is set per hour, and current setting is 200 email per hour.

Why is this in place? To prevent user from using powweb mail server for sending large volume of spam mail.

To work around this, and use your web hosting for sending out maximum email per day. setup the email sending script to get 200 email address from mysql database. And add this script run to cron job, and set it to every hour perform once. Wahlaa.. 200 email will be sent out per hour.

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Due to some script requirement, i have to verify the version of PHP and MySQL version installed in powweb servers. So i do a quick check through powweb live support chat, from their homepage top right corner.

Powweb PHP version: PHP 4.3.3.
Newer versions may be installed as they become available.

Powweb MySQL version: 4.1.14.