Biggest Bang 4 Your Buck: AlwaysWebHosting.com

[SpeedStreet]

Wow.

I've been through the wringer about my site. I have went to a million different sites, done a ton of research, and I have come up with a great solution:

17 bucks a month for 500mb of space and 20gb of bandwidth???

How could you top that? More importantly, their site blazes...I've not seen my mySQL db respond this quickly on any server I tested, including my own.

Not to mention the fact that their support is awesome. They have about 5 different ways they can be contacted, and get back to you immediately.

This may sound like a plant, and it damn well should. I've never been this happy with any service I've ever gotten PERIOD <except maybe my vbulletin!>. If you are looking for a site to do your hosting at a cheap price, check these guys out!

PS: I think right now they are running a special on people who have bad hosts or something, I'd check it out if you are interested.

http://www.alwayswebhosting.com

John
Speed-Street.com hosted at AWH

[greenchicken]

Always was the best host until they virtually cut their bandwidth in half for their new users


went there one week and it had 60 gb listed, the next week 30 but didn't lower their prices.

[walter]

Have you ever thought why? They are still very, very low at 30GB traffic for $26.95...

[greenchicken]

Originally posted by walter
Have you ever thought why? They are still very, very low at 30GB traffic for $26.95...


26.95 is not a good deal for 30 gb transfer a month, I am sorry I have to disagree.

[walter]

:)
What are you looking for? Quality? Obviously not.
An example: Venturesonline is $24.95 for 20 GB traffic. I would consider them a quality provider (network quality and support).
Do you know that a GB traffic on a quality network costs about $1 to $3 for a host?

[greenchicken]

ipowerweb.com

15 GB for 7.95

Nuff said

[walter]

If you want I can show you a host asking $20 per year, but is this an answer?

How are they able to survive in the long run? The only way to offer dead cheap hosting packages is to cut costs. What are the major costs for a hosting company?

marketing
techs and support
hardware
traffic


Will they spend less $ on marketing? Probably not. The solution:

techs and support: that's very easy and we all know it - let them wait.
hardware: cheap hardware, overloaded servers
traffic: Cogent traffic or getting rid of customers who use more than 30% of their alloted bandwidth


To be clear: I don't know anything about ipowerweb, these comments are nothing special about them.

[greenchicken]

Originally posted by walter
If you want I can show you a host asking $20 per year, but is this an answer?

How are they able to survive in the long run? The only way to offer dead cheap hosting packages is to cut costs. What are the major costs for a hosting company?

marketing
techs and support
hardware
traffic


Will they spend less $ on marketing? Probably not. The solution:

techs and support: that's very easy and we all know it - let them wait.
hardware: cheap hardware, overloaded servers
traffic: Cogent traffic or getting rid of customers who use more than 30% of their alloted bandwidth


To be clear: I don't know anything about ipowerweb, these comments are nothing special about them.


Well every email I send them gets answered and every call I make to them gets answered by a human. everything works well.


I take it you work for always webhosting or something Walter, if so good luck to you, I myself was debating going there for my next site because of the rave reviews but when I saw them cut their packages in half without taking a cent off the cost I was sure that I made the right choice not to.

Take Care
Jeff

[walter]

Originally posted by Truckingboards
I take it you work for always webhosting or something Walter, if so good luck to you, I myself was debating going there for my next site because of the rave reviews but when I saw them cut their packages in half without taking a cent off the cost I was sure that I made the right choice not to.

Jeff, I should have stated that earlier, but I own a small hosting company.
To cut the bandwidth in half is a bad move for a host, but: their initial error was to offer too much for too little. :)

[eva2000]

Originally posted by walter
Jeff, I should have stated that earlier, but I own a small hosting company.
To cut the bandwidth in half is a bad move for a host, but: their initial error was to offer too much for too little. :) exactly! "if you don't plan, you plan to fail"

[N9ne]

nocster.net

50GB transfer for $24 or something...

[alwaysweb]

Originally posted by Truckingboards
I take it you work for always webhosting or something Walter, if so good luck to you, I myself was debating going there for my next site because of the rave reviews but when I saw them cut their packages in half without taking a cent off the cost I was sure that I made the right choice not to.[/B]
Hi Jeff, Ronnie Moore here from www.AlwaysWebHosting.com . I am the founder and owner, and Walter is in no way affiliated with us, other than perhaps being a customer, which I cannot confirm nor deny. :D

I figured you would have at least searched a bit to determine why our prices had remained unchanged while the bandwidth was adjusted on our plans. Why?

We are half-way through the transition of all our customer sites from the weaker RackShack's leased servers to an incredible new server farm , with 4 awesome machines (dual and QUAD 1.6 and 2.0Ghz CPUs, etc.). The new serfarm farm has full load-balancing, tons of disk space, full RAID5 redundancy, dual power supplies and scsi/raid cards, etc. for each machine. This farm will allow us to grow and continue to offer superior service long into the future. See link:

http://forums.alwayswebhosting.com/showthread.php?threadid=638

The server farm is above-all the reason for the adjustments to our hosting plans. :D Check out the link, i'm sure you'll be impressed, if nothing else but from the price tag of the equipment at least! (not mentioned) haha!

[adrianchew]

Ronnie - no shell access = vB unfriendly host.

[SpeedStreet]

To this point, I haven't had a need for shell access, and I am running a vb site.

Support has been top notch....and for shared hosting, a server load hovering consistently at .10 is not something to shake a stick at.

These guys have been awesome with helping me deal with issues that I've caused even myself. You won't find a better level of CS than with them.

PS: I am a customer and I can confirm that :P

[mishkan]

Originally posted by SpeedStreet
To this point, I haven't had a need for shell access, and I am running a vb site.
How do you backup your database?

[alwaysweb]

Mishkan, customers can use the the cpanel to can go to 'Backup' and click a link to initiate a download of the .sql backup for your database, or a tar backup of your whole site... Easy!

Or, you can use phpMyAdmin to initiate the backup (.sql dump) of the database there.

AWH also nightly completes a backup and transfer of all the mysql databases across a secure SSH tunnel to another server at a different physical location for safe, off-site storage.

[SpeedStreet]

Mishkan, customers can use the the cpanel to can go to 'Backup' and click a link to initiate a download of the .sql backup for your database, or a tar backup of your whole site... Easy!

Or, you can use phpMyAdmin to initiate the backup (.sql dump) of the database there.

AWH also nightly completes a backup and transfer of all the mysql databases across a secure SSH tunnel to another server at a different physical location for safe, off-site storage.


:P

[Steve Machol]

Note, my own testing of the CPanel backup and restore procedure shows that it is reliable with the 80Mb database I used for testing. However you will not be able to use phpMyAdmin to backup a database this large.

[alwaysweb]

Thanks Steve, I agree.

[Brett Power]

Originally posted by Truckingboards
ipowerweb.com

15 GB for 7.95

Nuff said

iPowerWeb now offers 30 GB traffic/month, still for 7.95 a month

-Brett

[JasonP]

Hi Guys,

I have to post to this too. I am currently with Ipowerweb.com
I cannot say anything bad about them, the site is fast and the service on a scale of 1-10 would be about a 7-8. BUT, I am thinking HIGHLY of switching to Ventures Online for a couple of big reasons. I have had access to a control panel account over there and it is phenomenal!

With Ipowerweb for 7.95 month, I get plenty of mb (400), but I do not get any domain name forwarding, which I need as I own 4 more than the current one and they all go to the same site. I get NO ssh/telnet access, which I need for VB. And I cannot even change my password without them doing it for me. Now I am MSCE certified engineer and I know mainly what I am doing :p So I do not need someone to scratch my back for me on this stuff. So for the SAME price, you get a lot more features including SUB domains that I do not get with ipowerweb at venturesonline. But the only thing is for the 7.95 month at ventures you only get 20mb of hosting space. I am going to go with the 24.95 month plan most likely. I mean that is not bad at all with NO setup fee. So I think I will be changing before my 30 days is up with ipowerweb. I just need the extra features. But if you're a Newbie to these things and need someone to do it for you, then go with IPOWERWEB.

OH YEAH, another big thing at Ventures Online is this. You know that backup you do of your Sql database with VB? Well Click ONE button at Ventures Online and it reinstalls it FOR YOU!!! That is a big plus too. I just do not see where you could go wrong.

JasonP.

[Brett Power]

I have been running VB on my domain for nearly a year now, and I have never used SSH/Telnet with it. For me, the control panel does the job. However, for those of you out there who are much more server-side knowledgable than I, you probably prefer to have SSH/Telnet access.

One of the tech support guys told me that they may be adding SSH/Telnet soon, but it is a long process because it has to go through a lot of people within the company. I guess we will have to wait and see.

The only con with iPowerWeb is that the max server space you can have is 500 megs. I am trying to talk them into changing that.


Later,
Brett

[corley]

Originally posted by alwaysweb

We are half-way through the transition of all our customer sites from the weaker RackShack's leased servers to an incredible new server farm , with 4 awesome machines (dual and QUAD 1.6 and 2.0Ghz CPUs, etc.). The new serfarm farm has full load-balancing, tons of disk space, full RAID5 redundancy, dual power supplies and scsi/raid cards, etc. for each machine. This farm will allow us to grow and continue to offer superior service long into the future. See link:


how can loadbalancing shared webhosting accounts help ? do you keep the accounts on more then one server or what ?

[MyIce]

I am with ventures online, they don't offer telnet unless you are on a vpn or dedicated server



Originally posted by JasonP
Hi Guys,

I have to post to this too. I am currently with Ipowerweb.com
I cannot say anything bad about them, the site is fast and the service on a scale of 1-10 would be about a 7-8. BUT, I am thinking HIGHLY of switching to Ventures Online for a couple of big reasons. I have had access to a control panel account over there and it is phenomenal!

With Ipowerweb for 7.95 month, I get plenty of mb (400), but I do not get any domain name forwarding, which I need as I own 4 more than the current one and they all go to the same site. I get NO ssh/telnet access, which I need for VB. And I cannot even change my password without them doing it for me. Now I am MSCE certified engineer and I know mainly what I am doing :p So I do not need someone to scratch my back for me on this stuff. So for the SAME price, you get a lot more features including SUB domains that I do not get with ipowerweb at venturesonline. But the only thing is for the 7.95 month at ventures you only get 20mb of hosting space. I am going to go with the 24.95 month plan most likely. I mean that is not bad at all with NO setup fee. So I think I will be changing before my 30 days is up with ipowerweb. I just need the extra features. But if you're a Newbie to these things and need someone to do it for you, then go with IPOWERWEB.

OH YEAH, another big thing at Ventures Online is this. You know that backup you do of your Sql database with VB? Well Click ONE button at Ventures Online and it reinstalls it FOR YOU!!! That is a big plus too. I just do not see where you could go wrong.

JasonP.