Bostoncab
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- Dec 31, 2009
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So first I do not work for Ixwebhosting and will not benefit if you sign up with them. This is just me passing info to my friend's here at BHW.
I'll start with the Bad.
NO CPANEL.
They instead use something called Hsphere which kind of looks like Cpanel if Cpanel had been made in 1992.
NO 1 CLICK WP INSTALL.
This really isn't true they do have a one click Wordpress install but it will only install it to a subdirectory. Like Mysite.com/wordpress I don't know many people who use WP in this fashion so it is pretty much useless.
It however is not all that hard to upload Wordpress via ftp and activate it by hand connecting it to the database. If I managed to do it I am sure any BHW member can.
On to the great...
One year pricing $108.00 a year.
*3 free domains.
*15 dedicated Ip's
*Free 7 day trial. Give them a try for 7 days see if you can get used to the Hsphere crap. One thing no free domains until you are actually a paying customer..at least they aren't dumb right?
*friendly responsive U.S. based support staff(They are in Ohio).
*They say free domain renewal on the 3 free domains for life as long as you have a hosting account with them. I'm hoping it does not go way way up after a year.
*The dedicated ip's don't have to be in sequence and can be from up too three different Cblocks. The catch is the ip's are randomly assigned. I figured out after adding a couple domains to wait a while before adding another and the Ip you get won't be in sequence and may be from another C block. I wound up with 3 different C blocks out of the 15.
I found this company because on of my competitors uses them. The competitor has a good keyword rich domain that is newer than mine does not have any back links and is only one page of HTML. The only thing I could see that he had going for him was that he was on a dedicated IP. I figured what the heck i'll try it.
All in all 2 weeks in I have to say I am really happy. Figure the 3 domains are worth 9 bucks each right? So I got 15 dedicated ip's for $81.00 that came with unlimited hosting. I would say that is a decent deal even though I have to put up with this Hsphere crap. Now I have to figure out how to install WP MU on Hsphere..great!
I'll start with the Bad.
NO CPANEL.
They instead use something called Hsphere which kind of looks like Cpanel if Cpanel had been made in 1992.
NO 1 CLICK WP INSTALL.
This really isn't true they do have a one click Wordpress install but it will only install it to a subdirectory. Like Mysite.com/wordpress I don't know many people who use WP in this fashion so it is pretty much useless.
It however is not all that hard to upload Wordpress via ftp and activate it by hand connecting it to the database. If I managed to do it I am sure any BHW member can.
On to the great...
One year pricing $108.00 a year.
*3 free domains.
*15 dedicated Ip's
*Free 7 day trial. Give them a try for 7 days see if you can get used to the Hsphere crap. One thing no free domains until you are actually a paying customer..at least they aren't dumb right?
*friendly responsive U.S. based support staff(They are in Ohio).
*They say free domain renewal on the 3 free domains for life as long as you have a hosting account with them. I'm hoping it does not go way way up after a year.
*The dedicated ip's don't have to be in sequence and can be from up too three different Cblocks. The catch is the ip's are randomly assigned. I figured out after adding a couple domains to wait a while before adding another and the Ip you get won't be in sequence and may be from another C block. I wound up with 3 different C blocks out of the 15.
I found this company because on of my competitors uses them. The competitor has a good keyword rich domain that is newer than mine does not have any back links and is only one page of HTML. The only thing I could see that he had going for him was that he was on a dedicated IP. I figured what the heck i'll try it.
All in all 2 weeks in I have to say I am really happy. Figure the 3 domains are worth 9 bucks each right? So I got 15 dedicated ip's for $81.00 that came with unlimited hosting. I would say that is a decent deal even though I have to put up with this Hsphere crap. Now I have to figure out how to install WP MU on Hsphere..great!
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