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The Naked Tech's Review of IX Webhosting

Which web hosting company offers the best value?  We think it's IX Webhosting.  IXWebhosting.com has been hosting our websites for years.  They are the only web hosting company that allows you unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, unlimited domains, unlimited sub domains, 5000 email accounts, free website builder, 5000 ftp accounts, 100 databases, and really helpful 24 hour support based in the United States.

While the chat support offered at many other web hosting companies just create more problems, the technical support at ixwebhosting is hard to match.  We've had to seek help from the 24/7 technical support chat at ixwebhosting.com many times and each time, they have actually known how to solve the issue.  Many times, the technician will simply log into your account and fix the issue for you.  Many billing issues can even be solved by the 24 hour chat.  This is great when, in the middle of the night, you're wide awake, worrying about a hosting bill, updated billing information, or expiring domain.

One other thing that really set IX Webhosting apart from the competition is the fact that they offer unlimited domains under one account.  That is a huge advantage for companies or developers who need to host multiple domains.  What are the ftp accounts for?  Well, with the 5000 ftp accounts, you'll be able to upload up to 5000 websites with unique domain names to your one hosting account!

What you have to know about purchasing a domain with ix webhosting is that, once you've used your domain credits and need to register an additional domain the cost for registration with them is $19.95.  That's an expensive domain registration.   To bypass this, you can register your domain name with another registrar (such as iPowerWeb.com).  Once you've registered your new domain name, you will be able to set the name servers to ixwebhosting.com for FREE and build your site right away!

A few other highlights I would like to mention are the 99.9 percent up time, the 30 day unconditional money back guarantee, choice of Linux and Windows hosting, free website building tutorials, $75 Google Adwords credit.

In any case, if you are thinking of starting a website, or are a professional developer, IX Webhosting has many advantages over the competition.  If it weren't for the wonderful service, price, and performance of ix webhosting, we would have needed to invest a lot more money into hosting our websites.  IX Webhosting has saved us from buying a server as well.  Even though our business has grown through the years, our hosting bill has remained affordable.

Elaine Russo- BioWeb Concepts

Questions and Answers:

Q.  How much does it cost?
A.  IX Webhosting has hosting plans starting at $7.95 per month, but the Expert plan (1 domain name included) is on sale at an awesome $3.95 per month! 

Q.  What are name servers?
A.  The name server is the address of the server for your domain name.   You can set the name servers to any hosting company at any time, regardless of who the registrar of your domain is.  The name servers for ix webhosting are: ns1.ixwebhosting.com and ns2.ixwebhosting.com.

Q.  What is the difference between a registrar and a hosting company?
A.  While many hosting companies are registrars, many people do not know the difference between the two terms.  A hosting company is a company that HOSTS your domain.  Imagine that your domain name (www.yourdomainname.ext) is a guest at a party.  The company the website is published with is the host.  - The registrar is the company or entity who you report to to renew your actual domain name.  Many times, the two are the same, but if you change the name server for your account, then your host and registrar are in different places.

Q.  What is ftp? 
A.  FTP stands for file transfer protocol and is basically just a way to publish your website.  To publish via ftp, you will use ftp://yoursite, rather than http://yoursite

Q.  Don't all hosting companies offer live chat?
A.  You will find that many hosting companies offer live technical support via chat.  However, many of these chats are meant as sales chats and can offer only limited technical support.  At ix webhosting, the chat personnel actually know what they are talking about in extreme detail and can even handle many billing issues!

Q. What actual experience do you have with IX Webhosting?
A.  We have used ixwebhosting.com to build many sites over the years.  Although some sites we've hosted are no longer up and running, you can view some sites hosted with ixwebhosting by visiting biowebconcepts.com and clicking on the links.  Mind you, none of these sites were created with the easy website builder program they offer.

Q.  What is bandwidth?
A. Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be passed from one place to another.  If you have a bandwidth limit, then your site will not work once that limit has been reached.  With ixwebhosting, there is no limit to the amount of bandwidth you can have on your account. 

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