PowWeb.com Hosting - Any good?

[Darin]

Hello,

I'm currently planning a very big business project with my dad and we are looking at several paid hosts. One of the options that we both really like, is PowWeb.com (http://www.powweb.com/). At $7.77/month it seems very well. I have heard good things about them and their support. They provide the following:

- 100 MB Storage
- 50 POP3 E-Mail Accounts
- Yourname.com
- 100 E-Mail Forwarding
- 12 Gigs Transfer
- Frontpage 2002 Extens.
- CGI-BIN
- SSL, MySQL, PHP4
- Control Panel
- 99.7% Uptime
- 24/7 FTP Access
- 30-Day Money Back
- Web Based E-mail
- And More!!

All those features seem great for $93.24/year. Has anybody signed up with them and is your hosting experience with them good or bad? I know that their support is amazingly fast, but the thing I'm worried about is that they will raise their prices, because of their everyday growing popularity. In the past couple of months, I have seen their banners on tons of big ad networks.

They don't charge a setup fee either. They do want a $30 fee for setting up mySQL. Which seems reasonable....

Thanks in advance! :)

[Gayowulf]

I'm glad to see that they changed from unlimited transfer to a finite number. It could be a good choice, but i am not familiar with them. will you be using the full 12gigs of transfer? If not there are cheaper hosts

[Darin]

At the beginning, probably not or even close to it, since most of the pages will be serving basic text information and maybe several images of company portfolios. The overall design of the site does not consist of many graphics, a logo and several small bullets. But as time goes by, plans are to increase the use of scripts, therefore increasing the use of resources and bandwidth.

But, with the whole thing still in a planning stage, nothing can be said for sure. We are targeting only company's and customers, and I cannot be sure of how much traffic the site will receive when it opens. Surely close to 700 - 1,000 daily, due to the advertising methods we have planned. Also, know of any good ad companies for business sites?

But, it's always good to have extra bandwidth. With my experience with other hosts, at least I know that.