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IX Web Hosting - Web Hosting Customer Review

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From Bob Crothers

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Customer Review by Bob Crothers - who used this hosting company for 4-12 months when this review was written on December 17, 2008.

Pros

  • unlimited domains
  • 5,000 email accounts w/POP3, IMAP and Webmail
  • PHP, Perl CGI, CGI-BIN, ASP/ASP.NET v3.5
  • 100 MySQL, MS SQL Server DB's, MS Access db's,
  • lots of free and easy to use scripting applications (blogs, shoping, etc)

Cons

  • Support SUCKS! They barely speak or write english. Live Chat takes several min per response
  • Plain HTML works pretty good. But Database servers are way overloaded.
  • DB Driven apps (such as Invision Power board) are very slow and eratic.
  • Did I meantion that support sucks?

Description

  • Price: $11-$25 per month
  • Type of Provider: Standard Web Hosting
  • Operating System: Windows
  • Server Software: PHP, Database, Perl, ASP, ColdFusion, Ruby, SSI, SSL, SSH, Blogs, Other
  • Analytics / Statistics: Yes

Guide Review - IX Web Hosting - Web Hosting Customer Review

Description - Services Provided

Offering sounds great. MySQL and MS SQL Server databases, lots of scripting options, unlimited data storage and data trasfer

Other Comments

These guys make a lot of promises but deliver on very few of them. I signed a 1 year contract that is up in Febuary...I'll be moving then.

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