Recommending another customer to PowWeb

[Soul-Haven]

I have a question, and I'd like a true, honest answer from PowWeb customers to it, please.

My uncle, who is co-manager of a major country music performer, is looking for a better deal (money-wise) on website hosting. He currently is using [another host], and he has experienced zero downtime, to his knowledge. I mentioned PowWeb to him, but also mentioned that there had been a few rare occasions over the past few years where downtime was experienced...sometimes severe, sometimes not. Being that the website is for a professional entertainer, he cannot afford to have downtime.

I'd like an honest opinion as to whether I should continue to recommend PowWeb to him. I've been with PowWeb about 3-4 years now, but my websites have never been consistently monitored for downtime like this one would. Could I have everyone's honest opinion?

Thanks in advance. :)

[Capo]

To be honest, if this is any form of a major artist then some serious independant hosting may be in order. To say this is a top notch performer who must have near perfect up-time and yet still want to "skimp out," if you will, on web hosting then frankly, all I can say is you get what you paid for.

Powweb is a great deal for what we pay. For people who use their packages for personal use, small businesses, etc. it's great. If you're talking heavy bandwith (though powweb's bandwith is pretty good) with no down-time as imperrative, then I wouldn't suggest any of the "cheap" hosting solutions.

[Croc Hunter]

If zero downtime is so important to him, and zero downtime is what he's got, why move. As he is co-manager the hosting cost isn't coming out of his pocket. He just need to sell more Kenny Rogers CD's and pass the clams onto his host.

[Soul-Haven]

Thanks for your opinions.

I just mentioned to him that I knew of another hosting company that was real great that I'd used for quite awhile. I know that it's not coming out of his pocket, but I like to help out the cause any way that I can. That's why I was wanting honest opinions so I could really give him a proper recommendation.

Other thoughts?

[extras]

Capo said pretty much what I woud say. ;)

If the site in question is made of almost all static pages, PowWeb is very solid.
If it uses lots of PHP/MySQL type of things, PowWeb suffered (mainly from abusers), occasionally.
(Perl/SQLite construction would have suffered a lot less ... nearly as solid as static site.)

If you plan to offer lots of sample music and/or plan to use near maximal bandwidth,
I don't recommned using here.