IX Web Hosting Review

Who is IX Web Hosting?

IX Web Hosting is one of the world's top 10 largest web hosting companies with more than 350,000 hosted domains. They are one of the best business hosting companies around. If you are Ecommerce or a Huge Corporation , IX IS THE HOST YOU WANT! They run there company with a you at the center of their success and are always on the cutting edge. Their CEO guarantees his own money if you are not satisfied, silly, however they are serious about your satisfaction. The CEO has his Contact email available and says:

"If you're missing anything in our products, let me know and I'll have it added as soon as our resources allow for. It is because of you, our customer, that IX Web Hosting consistently outperforms all its competitors. It's my key interest and sole duty to understand your needs and address them to your satisfaction." - Fathi CEO

Still not convinced they are serious about your satisfaction read this:

"To combat any concerns you may have, I've created several guarantees, including our Unheard-Of Uptime Or Cash™ Guarantee. They should help you make the decision for the better host - for IX Web Hosting. Unlike our competitors, we guarantee you this in writing, as part of our Terms of Service." -Fathi CEO

Review of IX Web Hosting.

IX Web Hosting is designed for business and stores, of course you could host something else, but ecommerce/business work well with IX. You want a Fast & Secure store I would say IX all the way. All stores we setup on IX were osCommerce and Zencart shopping system and they FLEW, never went down in the last 3 years :) IX also gives you like 450.00+ in credits to get your online advertising rolling. They are in the business of offering the most extras I have ever seen in a host. They even offer Windows operating System. Check IX Web Hosting out you will be very satisfied with the quality of service!

 

What Great Features?

Every Web hosting plan comes with a 30 day money back guarantee, 99.9% uptime guarantee, and is fully guaranteed by the owner himself! Shopping cart Pre-installed, Site Builder, and access to install from Wordpress logs, Web site forms, Tech Support, live help, to Php forms, Forums, CMS, and tons more.

Scripts Included

Blogs: b2evolution, Feeds on Feeds, and WordPress.
CMS (Content management System): e107, Mambo CMS, phpNuke, PHP Wiki, vtiger, Xoops, and Joomla.
Customer Support: Crafty Syntax.
Live Help: Help Center Live, osTicket, PerlDesk, PHP Support Tickets, Support Logic Helpdesk, and Support Services Manager.
Forums: phpBB2, SMF and XMB Forum
E-Commerce: CubeCart, OS Commerce, phpAdsNew, phpCoin, SugarCRM, Openads,and Zen Cart .
Support Systems : CS Live Helper, helpCenterLive, phpMyChat ,and phpMyFAQ.
Galleries: Coppermine Photo Gallery,and Gallery.
Other Scripts: DokuWiki, FormMail, phpESP, phpMyCounter, PHProjekt, Advanced Poll, SiteBar, sRecommender, WebCalendar, Web Cards and PhpGroupWare.

Bonuses

Merchant Account w/ FREE Gateway, Accept Card Payments - 1st Month Free!
$450.00+ in Marketing Credits Google Adwords, Yahoo, and more
Free Site Builder
Host unlimited subdomains
Host unlimited parked domains
Free Domain Transfer
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Options to Pay month to month!

 

Technical Jargon

All hosting packages include ASP Support ! CGI, PHP 4 & 5, RoR, Perl, MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP, POP, Front Page Extensions, Linux and Windows Operating Systems are available. To see all details on each package click here.

IX Expert Plan Cost: $4.95 Space: Unlimited Bandwidth: Unlimited Domains: 1 Free Package Pros: Online store instantly! Credit card setup is a breeze and they offer one month free processing to test it out. Package Cons: Control Panel is a bit Cheesy - But not a big deal :) You cannot pay month to month, annually only.	IX Business - Popular Cost: $7.95 Space: Unlimited Bandwidth:Unlimited Domains: 2 Free Package Pros: 8 Dedicated IP's Fast fast fast, Your store will fly and your customers will be very happy! Package Cons: Nothing, just the Cpanel is a bit different than that standard, but not a big deal. You cannot pay month to month, annually only.	IX Unlimited Pro Cost: $12.95 Space: Unlimited Bandwidth: Unlimited!! Domains: 3 Domains Package Pros: 16 Dedicated IP's - Heavy traffic sites will never go down and you can host multiple businesses with this plan! Package Cons: Is a bit Pricey but this is a Pro package and is priced the same as hostgator or other competitive plans out there.

Host Pricing & Payment Notes:

IX Web Hosting gives member a bunch of way to pay, you can pay up to 2 years in advance, which will save you $2.00 a month long term. They except paypal of course, which is extremely convenient. You can pay a minimum of 3 or 6 months too.

Switching to IX Web Hosting from another Host?

IX Web Hosting offers FREE Domain Transfer, FREE File Transfer , FREE MySQL Transfer, FREE Script Transfer!

We have done about 7 site transfers with IX Web Hosting and was a great experience. All site transfers are done within 3-5 days according to IX Web Hosting. Very straight forward process. Give IX Web Hosting the site address, username and passwords and they do all the rest. Just search IX Web Hosting support for more details after you sign up.

Customer Service Review:

IX Web Hosting has over 130 full-time employees, with over 80% of their staff active in customer-facing activities. They offer dedicated 24/7 support, including holidays, over phone, live chat and our online helpdesk. They have three main guarantees; 30-Day 100% Money Back Guarantee, Any-Time Money Back Guarantee, and Uptime Or Cash Guarantee.

Technical Support Review:

If you have a problem or a concern you can contact IX Web Hosting by calling their 1-800 #, Chatting with a live customer support on-line chat, or shooting them an email. IX Web Hosting also uses a ticket system. When you have an issue a ticket number is assigned to you. This allows any employees at IX Web Hosting to assist you without you having to explain your problem multiple times. This also enables you to go in and edit, or update your ticket. Once you are happy and your problem is resolved your ticket will be closed.

Real Customer Comments and Reviews:

 

"I would definitely recommend IX for people that know their way around the different scripting languages and are looking for a top web host at an affordable price."

 

"IX Web Hosting has the best customer service that I have come across from a hosting company. I am very pleased with my service."

 

"I transferred to Ix Web Hosting a few months ago, and I am impressed with how prompt they return emails, and the low hold time when you call. I would recommend them for sure!"

 

"Great features for such low prices. I give them an A+ for customer service, and for fast load times."

 

"I have had a wonderful experience with them so far. The customer service reps are very patient and nice."

 

"I was recommended to Ix Web Hosting by a friend who is making a lot of money online. So I trusted his opinion. And I have to say a year later, my page loads faster than I even expected. I am very happy!"

 

"I have had no problems with iX. My site has been up and running 24x7 since my service with them, 3yrs."

 

"I have been with IX Hosting for 2 years, and I have never had my website drop out. Which had been a major problem with my previous hosting."

 

"Their customer support is excellent and their tech's are very friendly and do more than needed to help you out."

 

IX Web Hosting Hosting Comparison

Linux Web Hosting Packages
Plans	Expert	Business	Unlimited Pro
Disk Space Disk Space - This refers to the amount of storage provided by the host. All hosts we recommend have more space than you will probably use, it comes standard. The amount of space would only be a concern for people putting tons High Quality Video, Audio, and Photos on there site.	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
Bandwidth Bandwidth - The amount of data that you are allowed to transfer monthly. If you are expecting heavy traffic or will be streaming a lot of downloads, video and music choose one with higher bandwidth. But remember all hosts will let you change packages to one with more bandwidth later, as your sites popularity grows. Approximately 40,000 page views = 1 GB of data transfer. If you build it they will come. :)	UNLIMITED	Unlimited	UNLIMITED
Domains Allowed Domains Allowed - This refers to how many domain names you can have on your plan, such as www.yourdomain.com. The unlimited plans allow for greater numbers that can be all pointed to the same site, sub-domains, or other hosted sites.	1	2	3
Pricing Pricing - This is the cost per month, rates decrease with some plans paid for 1-3 years in advance. To save dough, pay annually.	$4.95	$7.95	$12.95
Package Details
Site Builder Site Builder - This refers to a program that comes with hosting that allows you to put together a website. Usually from templates and various pre-designed layouts. Very handy if you are not a web-designer and want a website up right away!
24x7 Support
Instant Backups
No Contract!
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Free / Instant Setup
Domain / FTP Features
Addon / Parked Domains	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
Sub Domains Sub Domains - A sub domain is an easy way to create a new web address for various areas of your site. For example, you could create a sub domain for pictures on your site called pics. Anybody that comes to your Web site could type pics.example.com instead of www.example.com/pics.	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
FTP Accounts FTP Accounts - Stands for File Transfer Protocol. An FTP account refers to a setup where you can log in to the area of the hard disk on the web server that contains your web files. This feature is standard for paid web hosting accounts.	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
Anonymous FTP Anonymous FTP - Many sites that run FTP servers enable anonymous ftp. Under this arrangement, users do not need an account on the server.
Supported Features
MySQL Databases MySQL Databases - The SQL part stands for Structured Query Language. A database is an organized collection of information available to be searched or queried in order to provide specific results. This is used for forums, osCommerce and many more.	50	100	UNLIMITED
CGI CGI - Stands for "Common Gateway Interface" a CGI program is designed to accept and return data to a Web server. CGI programs including C, Perl, Java, Visual Basic, MIVA, Python, PHP, and other scripting languages.	Nope
PHP4 & 5 PHP - is a server-side, cross-platform, scripting language. Php runs everything from osCommerce, wordpress, to a guestbook or email form.
Ruby On Rails Ruby On Rails - is an open source Web application framework written in Ruby, a dynamically typed programming language similar to Python, Smalltalk, and Perl. Basically this is for geek's.
SSH SSH - This protects a network from attacks such as IP spoofing, IP source routing, DNS spoofing and encrypts login sessions or transmissions of passwords to the web server.
Perl Perl - Stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, it is another open source server side programming language used for web scripts.
Chilisoft ASP Chilisoft ASP - Stands for Active Server Pages, it was developed by Microsoft for developing dynamic Web pages.	Nope
Python Python - Another programming language user to run web applications, more geek stuff.
SSI SSI - Stands for Server Side Include, makes it easier to work with frequently updated information. Makes it possible to update your entire site with only updating the SSI file. Geeky stuff for webmasters.
Cron Cron - This is a UNIX function used to schedule jobs to be executed at some time in the future.
FrontPage Front Page - Microsoft's website creation and management software tool.
GD GD - PHP's Image library.
Photo Galleries
Streaming Audio/Video
Free Module Installation
E-mail
POP3 Accounts POP3 Accounts - Stands for Post Office Protocol, this is used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server.	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
Web Mail
E-mail Alias
Auto Responders
Mailing Lists
Catch Alls
Spam Assassin
Mail Forwarding
IMAP Support IMAP - stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. This allows access to your email from any IMAP compatible mail program. Like Yahoo, and Gmail etc.
SMTP SMTP - Stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is used to send e-mail on the Internet.
Control Panel Features
Latest cPanel	Screenshot	Screenshot	Screenshot
Fantastico Fantastico - This is the slickest way to install 50+ scripts from WORDPRESS to osCommerce to a FORUM. YEEHAA	Nope	Nope	Nope
Soholaunch	Nope	Nope	Nope
Hotlink Protection
IP Deny Manager IP Deny Manager - HaBan people.
Custom Error Pages
Instant Blogs
Instant Portals Curl - NEEDS ONE.
Instant PHPnuke Curl - NEEDS ONE.
Instant Forums
Instant Guestbook
Instant Counter
Instant FormMail
Redirect URL Redirect - Exactly what is sounds like, like if you typed in www.righthostingforyou.com I could re-direct it to any page I like.
Web Based File Manager
Password Protected Directories Password Protected Directories - I know this will surprise you, but it means, protect a directory (folder) with a password.
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin - Edit you PHP.
Web / Ftp Statistics
AWStats (Real Time Updates)
Webalizer
Raw Log Manager
Referrer Logs
Error Logs
E-Commerce  Features
Shared SSL Shared SSL - Stands for Secure Sockets Layer, it is a commonly used protocol which protects transmissions on the Internet by encrypting data in a your web browser.
Private SSL Private SSL - Stands for Secure Sockets Layer, it is a commonly used protocol which protects transmissions on the Internet by encrypting data in a your web browser.	nope
Agora Cart (You must install)
osCommerce Pre installed
Zen Cart (You must install)
Cube Cart (You must install)
Purchase
Hosting Plans	Expert	Business	Unlimited Pro
Pricing	$4.95	$7.95	$12.95