IX Web Hosting is an award-winning discount web hosting company that has developed into an industry leader in providing individuals and small to medium size business with all the tools required to easily establish their desired online presence. They estimate 5,000 new clients switch to IX Web Hosting every month. Users of both Linux and Windows can find hosting packages that suit their needs.
All IX Hosting plans include website statistics and raw log files, free search engine submission services, professional web design software, an online file manager and WebShell, WorldWide WebMail access, and eCommerce Shopping Carts.
IX Web Hosting delivers huge disk space and add-on features, such as many e-mail accounts, domains to host and extra bandwidth all at one of the best prices on the web. They also feature a 24/7 customer support center with toll-free telephone and live web chat support standing by. Price value? Excellent.
All IX Hosting plans support CGI-BIN, Perl 5, CGI-scripts, PHP 4 scripting, Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia DreamWeaver, Flash, and ShockWave, Real Media, MP3s, Quicktime, streaming audio, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Webalizer and ModLogan statistics, WAP (Wireless Application Protocol). ColdFusion, Microsoft SQL servers and Active Server Pages supported by only Windows packages.
Reliability
IX Web Hosting vows that uptime is their top priority. Their datacenter has been custom designed to run on fault-tolerant systems, to ensure lightning-speed load times using smart-routing, and provide redundancy in every possible capacity, featuring SONET reliability and CISCO 12000 series router to run 750 servers for 80,000 clients.
For extra protection, IX Hosting runs a sequence of money-back guarantees, beginning with an initial 30 day 100% money-back guarantee. In recognition, however, that it sometimes takes several months to determine whether a service is right for you, IX promises that if you are ever unsatisfied with their service, you can receive a full refund of the current month's fees as well as all prorated monthly fees left on your subscription.
There's a customer support guarantee (see that section below) and a Price Freeze guarantee that once you join, your fees will never go up again.
Control Panel
IX Hosting's proprietary H-Sphere control panel is unbelievably easy to use, primarily because the interface is all icon-based. Learn to associate the little pictures with the task clicking it performs and you'll be playing this thing like Mozart on the piano before you know it.
Among its greatest features are multiple domain management, real-time email management (autoresponders included), and a password protected directory manager. What you can't do on this control panel, you probably don't need to do.
Customer Support
Among all IX Hosting's other guarantees is a 1 Hour Response guarantee, promising that a technical support representative will contact you within 1 hour of you sending in an email support ticket. If they fail to respond within that time, they'll calculate a partial refund of that month's fees based on how long they made you wait. But why submit a query ticket when IX Web Hosting has 24/7 toll-free telephone and live web chat support?
Hosting Plans
Linux/UNIX & Windows Hosting Plans
IX Expert Plan: 300 GB disk space, 3000 GB bandwidth @ $3.95 per month (host up to 2 domains) IX Business Plus Plan: 500 GB disk space, 3500 GB bandwidth @ $6.95 per month (host up to 8 domains) IX Unlimited Pro Plan: Unlimited disk space, 4000 GB bandwidth @ $12.95 per month (host up to 16 domains)
Price Value
StartLogic's budget package has one of the lowest prices
around for the value. For $4.95 you get 300 GB disk
space and 3000 GB bandwidth for not 1 but 10 domains.
Free bonuses like $50 Google AdWords credit and $50
Yahoo! Search Marketing credit pump up the value even
more.
This basic package (and all subsequent packages) come
feature-packed. You'll get unlimited email accounts,
a choice of secure shopping carts (including PayPal's),
Frontpage extensions, browser-based email and a web
hosting control panel, plus log files, site stats, and
MySQL, PHP, PerlScripts and CGI-BIN support.
Your account comes with free multimedia features included,
like real audio and video, streaming audio, Macromedia
Shockwave, MIDI File Support and MIME types. You'll
get a complete FTP manager with backup and password
protection, a website builder loaded with templates,
plus a publisher and a logo and slogan editor. You'll
get unlimited POP3 emails, forwards and autoresponders.
The promotional tools that come with StartLogic's hosting
packages are among its greatest features. Get a 500+
page marketing manual, a search engine positioner and
submitter, Meta Tags and Keywords Generators, a Link
Checker, and $50 matching credit for advertising. In
a way, it seems like StartLogic gives you everything
but the computer.
Reliability
StartLogic has a no-questions-asked 30 day money back
guarantee and stands behind a solid 99.9% uptime guarantee
all the time. Their Los Angeles-based datacenter is
a custom-designed facility that uses redundant optical
fiber connections and multiple internet backbone providers.
Careful attention was paid to environmental controls,
with HVAC temperature control systems, raised floors,
redundant power, UPS backup and power conditioning systems
and generators. They use state of the art video surveillance,
motion sensors, biometric access controls, security
breach alarms, and smoke detection and fire suppression
methods.
Control Panel
Users will enjoy StartLogic's easy to use VDECK 2.0
control panel that, with large icon-based buttons, gives
you versatility and control over all aspects of your
account, from administrative to creative. All from its
one crisp, clean, and powerful interface you can build,
publish, and market your websites, set up shopping carts,
install scripts, and manage your email account. Help
information on all VDECK features are accessible directly
from the control panel itself.
Customer Support
StartLogic has live web chat support, which is our hands-down
favorite way to get help. Choose from 24/7 x 365 award-winning
live chat, toll-free telephone, and email tech support.
They run a comprehensive Support Center with a troubleshooting
tour, an email query ticket system, a Getting Started
guide, a Community Forum, an Announcement Board, and
a categorized and searchable Knowledgebase/FAQ. They
also run a convenient Additional Services page from
where you can change your account domain name, add sub
domain names, order SSL certificates, add disk space,
databases and/or bandwidth, park domains and otherwise
manage your account.
Hosting Plans
Linux/UNIX Hosting Plans
Prologic: 300 GB disk space, 3000 GB
bandwidth @ $4.95/month (up to 10 domains) Virtual Server: 20000 MB disk space,
1 TB bandwidth @ $29.95/month (multi-domain hosting) Dedicated Server: 40000 MB disk space,
500 GB bandwidth @ $99.00/month
Windows Hosting Plan Windows Hosting: 2000 MB disk space,
60 GB bandwidth, ASP, .net CGI-BIN Support, ACCESS database
@ $8.95/month
