iX Web Hosting Review - Shared Hosts and VPS Hosting

Hosting Company Background

Founded in 1999 IX WEB HOSTING has close to ten years experience in the web hosting industry. Their call  center is in the US with real American English speaking call center representatives from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They also have their own data center in Columbus, Ohio).

WEB HOSTING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

IX WEB HOSTING has a good range of products from shared web hosting (linktotheshared page) to virtual private servers or VPS Hosting for sort.

Virtual Private Server hosting is where you have a dedicated set of resources and a shared set of resources for top performance at a lower price point than using a dedicated server.

Shared web hosting is where many accounts are all on the same web servers and they share all of the resources, which can be sub optimal if you have a bunch of really busy websites on the same server as you, it can slow down your website, but VPS hosting can overcome this with a balance between completely dedicated resources and a mix of shared resources.

Plan Pricing and Overall Value of Web Hosting Plans

They have two main types of web hosting plans. The cheap web hosting plan that is on a shared host (Virtual hosting) and the more robust Virtual Private Server hosting (VPS for short). To see the Virtual Private Server plans click here or scroll down past the virtual hosting plans.

3 Affordable Virtual Hosting Plans To Choose From

All three of these plans deliver everything you need for setting up your website and any other websites you might want to add on in the future. I do recommend the BUSINESS PLUS plan for someone starting out since you do get up to three IP addresses included in the plan and two free Domain name registrations; however the plan that is currently the best bang for the buck is the UNLIMITED PRO Plan which is priced at $7.95 if you buy the two year term option, which works out to the same price as the BUSNESS PLUS Plan but you get up to 15 IP addresses and 3 free Domain name registrations.

Shared Hosting Plans ( Virtual Hosting)	BUSINESS PLUS Plan	UNLIMITED PRO Plan	EXPERT Plan
Pricing	9.95 7.95/Month	12.95 7.95/ Month	6.95 3.95/Month
FREE Domain Registrations	2	3	1
Dedicated IP Addresses	3	15	1
Host Multiple Domains	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
Disk Storage	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
Data Transfer	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
Sub Domains	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED
Free Ad Coupons	$125	$150	$100
Microsoft Windows Hosting	Available	Available	No
Linux Hosting	Available	Available	Available

Additional Shared Web Hosting Plan Features

• Free domain name
• Host unlimited domains
  
• 50 to Unlimited MySQL databases
• FTP accounts (includes Anonymous FTP)
• Fast setup
• Free 24/7 customer Support
• Courtesy Site-Back-Ups

• RAID protected storage
• Web-mail (access your mail while traveling)
• Unlimited email accounts
• Web statistics & log files
• PHP, Perl, Ruby, CGI, SSI
• Website Site Builder
• At least $100 in search engine ad credits
• EasyApp program installer

• Account Control panel
• phpMyAdmin (manage and backup your MySQL databases easily)
• Video tutorials
• Money back guarantee
• Ecommerce Ready
• Server Load Balancing
• Multiple dedicated IP's (BUSINESS PLAN and UNLIMITED PRO only)

cPanel VPS Hosting

If you choose cPanel VPS Hosting, you can feel safe knowing that it is one of the most common types of control panels, and the reason is simple, simplicity, Their point and click user-friendly control panel makes setting up and managing your website a snap. What's even better is the fact that you are developing skills that are easily transferable to most of the top web hosting providers since a lot of them use cPanel.

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Image on the right: Sample view of their cPanel webhosting control panel. Very easy to use visual point and click menus including a getting started wizard and video tutorials on how to use their VPS hosting control panel. This is a screen capture of me setting up new domain name in cpanel, very easy to do.

To see a bigger image of the Plesk VPS panel then click on the image

Plesk VPS Hosting Account

Should you choose to use the Plesk control panel for your VPS hosting account then you are in luck because IX WEB HOSTING offers Plesk as well. I have used and continue to use both Plesk and cPanel and find them both very capable control panels.