4.0 stars

IX WEB HOSTING REVIEW BY BIG BUBBA

I had to follow the link just to make sure the critics were talking about the same host I use. The only two problems that I have ever had requiring technical support were caused by me. In both instances tech response was immediate and effective.

I have two websites hosted on IXWebHosting which from time to time are unavailable. Correct me if I am wrong folks, but, every site on the internet is unavailable from time to time.

I believe everything about IXWebHosting is totally awesome - price, value, service. I would recommend it to anyone without reservation.

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4.0 stars

IX WEB HOSTING REVIEW BY ANNA

I am disappointed in some of the features touted by this service:

1. WebMail client is TERRIBLE. I have to use it when I am away from my office. It is hard to log in, has a brief time-out that the user cannot set, so if you are composing a long message, it times out, wiping out the message. Then, once it has timed out, you have to wait about half an hour to log back in. If I am trying to use it on the sly while I am working at a client's the black screen is really obvious, doesn't look like a business application.

2. Spam Filter. It claims spam filter capability; instead it has the capability for you to set up rules on your email. It does not even have the built in capability to filter non-latin alphabets. They think that I am going to program an entire set of spam filter rules for each of my email accounts. This is not a feature; it's a joke.

3. FTP. I tried to use the FTP service they offer and support suggested that I purchase FTP software.

4. The control panel is designed for engineers, not non-technical people. It names the items by some name that doesn't say what the feature does in lay terms.

5. Power problems, until recently uptime has been good, but recently there have been power outages and brown outs. In order to get a refund on the lost service, they ask that I document the outage as if they didn't know. They seem to expect me to spend my day trying to get to my website so I can tell when it is up and down. That's crazy.

A positive, their new online support service is very responsive and polite.

Too bad, I'm shopping for a new hosting service.

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4.0 stars

IX WEB HOSTING REVIEW BY NGUYEN

I have ixwebhosting for about 3 years or just more than 3 years.
My website has about 2000 members, 250 person log on daily, about 40 members log on max at any moment. We have a phpbb forum and a photopost gallery in one database. The gallery has about 20,000 photos. My database is about 200 MB. I stored video files about 40-99 MB each for members to download. My bandwidth usage per month is about 100 gig.

The Server speed is inconsistence, sometime slow, sometime fast, sometime I can't even access my forum. In the past, I'v used the chat service many time when I cannot access my forum and they treat customer alright but the problem persist. Lately, (last couple months) the Server speed improve and I do not have problem accessing my forum although sometime it still slow and I'm using cable internet connection.

I would recommend them depend on what kind of website you have. If you have a business site and unreliable service is not acceptable to you then I would not recommend them. But if your site is only an entertainment site or hobbie site and you can live with a slow connection or downtime here and there then they are good because of the disk space and bandwidth. To be honest, my downtime at ix were plenty but not long, it would be down for about 1 to 5 minutes max but then I only visit my site after 3 pm so I don't know how reliable they are before 3pm on a daily basis.
Ixwebhosting will shut you down without notifying you if they find copyright material on your site. A Moderators of mine uploaded some music that has copyright and they suspend all my domain.
About a week ago, my database was shut down because ixwebhosting said the slow queries in my galleries jam their Server. They gave me a list of example of queries that were slow. I took those queries to staff at photopost.com and the engineer there tested those same queries on a site that has similar database size like mine and found no problem. The engineer at photopost told me the problem is with ix, not mine.
My opinion of ix is mixed. They have been nice to me most of the time. I can live with their slow server but they do thing that I consider unacceptable like shutting down clients site without trying to contact the client to notify them of the problem so that both side can work it out.

This is my sincere review and I hope that my review can be of help to you. I'm still hosted by them but I'm checking around to find another host to experiment with.

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4.0 stars

AWESOME HOST

Awesome Host. Quick, helpful support (sometimes took multiple replies to solve the problem, but during what I assume was business hours, they responded in less than 20 minutes). Lots of storage. Lots of SQL databases. Lots of bandwidth. What more could you ask for?? Webmail client works... I don't like how the interface is on a different server, but if i really wanted to, I could install an open-source webmail package. Using the open-souce FileZilla FTP client for FTP tranfers, and works great with this host (someone below was complaining about the site recommending you buy a FTP client, but if you want a good, free FTP client, then just search freshmeat.net for "ftp client", or use FileZilla). I've yet to witness any downtime at all, except for the scheduled ones at midnight periodically, but I don't mind, since they notify you in advance.

I've had to use support several times, and once was when I was trying to install AWSTATS... I just submitted a support ticket, and within a few hours, I had a detailed set of host-specific instructions on how to install it. Saved me DAYS!!!

I would (and do all the time) recommend this host to anyone. Don't go for something cheaper like Netrillium, because believe me, it's bad. (I have to use it for a school band site, and they picked it because of its price - but it is bad, and not worth the price cut)

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4.0 stars

IX WEB HOSTING REVIEW BY MELKEVS

I would recommend only if you are NOT using Frontpage98. They changed something on their servers and it no longer works with 98. They have been no help in resolving this issue and just tell me they can upload to my site fine using frontpage 2003! I don't have a computer that allows me to use 2003 and am not going to rush out and buy one along with new software just so I can use IX Web Hosting!

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4.0 stars

IX WEB HOSTING REVIEW BY JOHN

My experience using IXWEBHOSTING has been like dream come true. Too many hosting companies these days are quick to take your money without producing the goods. The quality of the hosting and services provided are just top notch and their support is just outstanding, even for someone located in Australia. I have had a dozen or more support calls iwith them, some with complex issues and they were all resolved within 15mins of logging the ticket. I have been so blown away with the level of service and support that I just had to right this review.

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4.0 stars

PROBLEMS WITH E-MAIL

Frequent problems with e-mail servers. They don't require a password to send e-mail so their accounts are utilized by spammers. Consequently they are on the blacklist for incoming servers for other ISP/hosts. There is a litany of other problems associated with e-mail. My email account holders complain of frequent missing e-mail bounced e-mail and not being able to recieve e-mails sent to them. IXnethosting tech staff continues to state there is no problem with their e-mail.

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4.0 stars

IX WEB HOSTING REVIEW BY MICHAEL

Very quickly, I've been very impressed with IXWebHosting however I have one may gripe. They use a very old version of SpamAssassin dating back to 2004. Most spammers now know how to get around the things older version of spam checking software look for, so ALL spam gets through.

IX have been unwilling to take customer feedback in regards to upgrading to a newer version of SpamAssassin. I hope I don't get this sort of pushback if there's anything else that needs upgrading.

Apart from that everything else has been first-rate.

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4.0 stars

IX HOST

good space and traffic but I had some problems with software couple a times

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4.0 stars

RECOMMENDED: IX WEB HOSTING

I personally recommened IX Web Hosting which I am using at present. IX doesn't pay me a dime, I'd like to share with you an honest review on IX. After using countless web hosting services, I found there was no big differnce between the top hosing providers of US. Maybe the top three got proud to overvalue themselves. What they do is just raise the fee year by year. You have to pay many extra fees for this and that. While for me, a not rich guy, I want the hosting service with fair price & nice bonus feature to add up to the total value of the price.

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4.0 stars

QUALITY HOSTING

The main benefits of IXWebhosting are: - the greatest Live support that is able to solve any kind of problem in several minutes - low prices that include wide amount of features and services - high bandwidth that results in websites running very fast. ADDITIONAL BONUSES IX provide: If you put a word "BANG" in the Employee Code field on the third page of ordering you will get the benefit of free SquirrelMail and AWStats business tool installation. IX is a must-pick host! I recommend it to everyone who values support and quality. Kind regards, Helen

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4.0 stars

GREAT HOSTING

I have 13 years experience with many hosting providers and finally i found redundance of resources, really low price, best windows hosting, so friendly support at IXWEBHOSTING.
Many times, some bad reviews come from total non-expert web developers.

IXWEBHOSTING is a really Great hosting.

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4.0 stars

IX WEB HOSTING REVIEW BY SATISFIED

I have never had problems with IXwebhosting. Their support is top notch and my websites experienced only minor problems - due to bad scripting from my side.
I have read a lot of negative reviews about IX. I also know some people who experienced down times etc. and found that most of the time it is due to badly written PHP or MySQL scripts.
Their support operators are friendly and always gave me a direct and correct answer.
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.
My verdict of the bad reviews of IX is as follow: If you cannot play golf, it is not the golf course that is bad. If you cannot write proper scripts, it is not IX, or any other host for that matter, that is bad.
Thanks IX for a great and the best hosting experience!

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4.0 stars

IX WEB HOSTING REVIEW BY STAN

I have been with two other website over the past 6+ years and been very unhappy with them. Both of those sites are listed here with ratings above IX Webhosting which doesn't make any sense in my experience. IX Webhosting beats them hands down. Their prices are great, their services offered far, far exceed the services on the other two websites I used. I can't believe some of the services offered for the Linux Business Plus plan I have. And if you don't end up liking them, you can cancel their service without paying for the full time. I am hosting 5 full domains there - each with their own different settings/services at no extra cost. The control panel is comprehensive and easy to use. I can't say enough good about them. I am recommending them to everyone I can. The best there is!

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4.0 stars

IX WEBHOSTING DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO SECURE THE SITES

I use the site generating tool provided in the IX Web hosting to create a static site with less than 10 pages. The site was hacked repeatly IX Web hosting has no clue how it was hacked and does not provide log file that shows the record of activities of attacking on my site. We have changed the file permission under the site, it was not useful. The customer/technical services are not helpful. I am moving my site elsewhere.

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