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…

Follow up:

Powweb offer their inhouse built control panel called PowWebOps which seems complete and functional. It is actually a refreshing alternative to cPanel.

b2evolution and other applications can be easily installed through the “Install Central” service.

Creating and managing MySQL databases is easier than with cPanel 10 or 11.

Technical specs

• PHP version: 4.4.7 – Up to date but we would like to see PHP 5 by default.
• PHP security: Medium (register_globals is on)
• MySQL version: 5.0.45
• GD library: 2.0.28 – Good.
• Perl version: 5.8.8

PHP errors are not shown by default. You have to go see the “CGI Error Logs” in the PowWebOps. This makes troubleshooting a tedious task.

Also, this cannot be regarded as a security decision, since Powweb left register_globals on, which is a bigger issue as far as PHP security is concerned.

Hosting Plans

Powweb offers a single hosting plan, called “One Plan, One Price".

	One Plan
Monthly fee (× 3 mo)	$7.77
Monthly fee (× 12 mo)	$5.77
Monthly fee (× 24 mo)	$5.77
Disk space	1,500 GB
Transfer (monthly)	15 TB
Included domain name	Free for 1 year
Domains per account	1
MySQL databases	75
b2evo auto install	yes

Visit site »