PowWeb Hosting

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6 Months Free with a 2 Year Contract!  Only $138.48 for two year's hosting*.
*New customers only.

  PowWeb was founded in 1999 and has established a leadership position in the "low cost" Web hosting industry by meeting the needs of small-to-medium sized businesses.  They have developed their own custom web hosting software and automation tailored directly to their customers' needs. Their entire infrastructure was built and developed in-house by their programmers and developers to cater to their customers needs. They manage, own and operate the entire network and all equipment.  One important proprietary feature of their hosting is "Load Balanced Technology" which eliminates all single points of failure. Web sites are sent through multiple paths so if one path fails the site still gets to its destination by a different path.  By load balancing their servers, your web site will have multiple paths to its destination. This fail-safe technology is the same technique used with large corporations hosting mission-critical web sites, and it greatly reduces down time for your web site.  Also, the ability to host unlimited domains is a real plus with this plan.

The free domain is registered in the customer's name and with the customer as administrator.  (For the importance of this please see A Word of Caution in General Considerations) 

PowWeb operates one of the largest communities (forums) on the Internet, allowing clients to communicate with each other. It's a great place for web designers and novices alike to exchange ideas, code, advice or just hang out!  It is this author's opinion that hosts with forums may have greater incentive to treat their customers right.  However, hosting companies regulate these forums and delete any posts that are critical of their service, and rightly so since they provide the forum at their cost.  But you only get the positive side of the story, just as you get mainly the negative side on complaint forums which are independent of the host.

On the Negative

There have been many complaints about Powweb's technical service and downtime.  Many of these complaints come from webmasters that are running PHP websites and scripts which use more processing power than the usual HTTP website.  The low cost of Powweb hosting also may encourage overselling (which basically all hosts do, some more than others) which can contribute to the problems.  A forum critical of Powweb's service can be found at: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/powweb_web_hosting_sucks/P100/
Keep in mind that any business with hundreds of thousands of customers are bound to have complaints, justified and unjustified.