Why so Cheap?

[metalkakkarot]

Ive registered with a company called 1st host web for a year....and they give me 25mb space and 1gb bandwidth per month....and i pay $49.95 per year...a few days back i came across this site..and your giving 5gig storage and 300gig bandwidth....for only 65 dollars...is there any reason why your so cheap or any letdown?

and is the site im registered with have some special feature that makes it expensive...that this site doesnt.....


thanks :cool:

[NMS]

Powweb has been in this business with the same price for over 6 years now (should be since 1999) .. I have been with powweb since 2001 and now I have a number of websites and packages with powweb simply because they are great.

Powweb's price and value are very good .. you can take a look at some of the websites in my signature .. they are all hosted here. Plus the many features, discounts etc offered.

Powweb has a single plan and that makes things cheaper to run from the technical and accounting point of view so that may be a reason of the good price. There are over 50,000 users currently registered with powweb and this shows that is a large company and there are no gimmicks.

I tried to find a host in Europe (mainly in the UK) and nothing is comparable to powweb's value.

[RTH10260]

is there any reason why your so cheap or any letdown?Perhaps competition ?

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[extras]

PowWeb doesn't (officially) gives support for user installed scripts, .htaccess, and other things.
If you send an e-mail concerning the use of script, they'll probably tell you to check this forum.

As most of support questions are FAQ item, it doesn't make sense to waste
human resources of employee on them.
Rather, army of fellow useres can handle them very efficiently in this forum,
using FAQ, tutorial, and other resource provided by PowWeb and by ourselves.
The more we help each other, the less PowWeb has to spend money for the support,
and we may get more features/bandwidth in turn. :)

If there is a Wiki for us, I think we can do even better job in assisting each other.
Maybe NMS can turn http://help.powweb.com into Wiki pages, ;)
and we can continuously update/improve the contents pretty easily.
(Currently, many pages need to be updated.)


This type of "users supporting each other" business model allows PowWeb to keep
the support cost lower than average, I think.
Also, PowWeb is big enough to get the volume related advantage
and use of FreeBSD (instead of MS software for example) helps to cut the cost further more.

[tbonekkt]

If there is a Wiki for us, I think we can do even better job in assisting each other.
Maybe NMS can turn http://help.powweb.com into Wiki pages, ;)
and we can continuously update/improve the contents pretty easily.
(Currently, many pages need to be updated.)extras,

While I personally think a wiki opens up too many potential problems, I'm very open to adding as many articles to the Knowledge Base (http://kb.powweb.com) so as long as they're acceptable.

If you have some things you think should be added, send me a PM. :)

And that invitation is extended to everyone; not just extras. :D

[extras]

This kind of Wiki doesn't have to be totally open to public.
You can use same user authentication as this forum, for example.
This way, we can avoid spamming and noises.

And Wiki is it's very easy to edit.
So if someone messes up a page, other members can quickly fix it.
(It's especially true with some Wiki with history/diff/revert feature.)

Also, some Wiki system are designed in the way pages can be cached and served statically.
That makes the responses very rapid.

As for KB items, I'll send you PM.

[metalkakkarot]

complete noob---whats a wiki..

and i want to run a shopping business very secure one...will powweb be able to provide with all the security for running an online bussiness?

and is there documentations on how to make subdomains and practically all other features and how to do them..because i have never had experience with websites before

[stevel]

A wiki is a document that lets many people update it.

PowWeb is fine for e-commerce, but it does not support having your own SSL certificate - you have to use PowWeb's shared certificate. If this bothers you, then you'll need to look elsewhere.

You're responsible for the security of the customer data once it reaches your web site. This means that you should encrypt or otherwise protect customers' personal information.

[rbradscott]

Rather, army of fellow useres can handle them very efficiently in this forum

"can handle" and "do handle" are two different things, and "very efficiently" is a very subjective interpretation.

The more we help each other, the less PowWeb has to spend money for the support,
and we may get more features/bandwidth in turn.

PW's pricing versus features offering isn't revolutionary. The current state of technology makes the low price possible, as much as anything else. The only "value added" component I care most about, is service. Real, knowledgeable, tech support, from those internal admins that know the most about how/why things are configured, and can answer questions directly and knowledgeably.

PW has stocked this forum with responsive and friendly staff, like tbonekkt.

This type of "users supporting each other" business model allows PowWeb to keep
the support cost lower than average, I think.

It also allows PW to maximize profitability, so they can take that money and.... re-invest in the fundamental, underlying tech that we all use, know, and love.

Rock on PW!