General

Powweb was founded in 1999 and has been a pioneer in “low cost” web hosting.

One major characteristic of Powweb today is that they have built and maintain their own infrastructure and operations software. They do not rely on third party software integration like many others do.

• Created: 1999
• Parent company: Endurance

User experience

Our Powweb test site showed acceptable response times for static pages. However, dynamic pages including MySQL queries were slow. Too slow…

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General

HostGator is an independent hosting company created by Brent Oxley. Today they are one of the world's 10 largest hosting companies, but despite the growth, he still takes personal involvement in customer satisfaction and will often handle concerns personally.

• Customers: 90,000 +
• Hosted domains: 700,000 +
• Created: 2002
• CEO: Brent Oxley

User experience

Our Host Gator test site showed good response and uptimes.

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