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IX Web Hosting Review
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IX Web Hosting is the only web host reviewed on this site to use its own proprietary control panel instead of cPanel. When so many web hosts out there all look alike, comparing them comes down to finding the one or two uniquenesses the make a given web host stand apart from the rest. In the case of IX Web Hosting it's the H-Sphere control panel.

Much of what makes IX Web Hosting stand out from the competition is in its add-on offerings, those that don't come free with web hosting but at extra cost, such as:

As you'll see below, IX Web Hosting also excels in offering more free site promotion support than most. And IX Web Hosting is one of the few web hosts out there to be a BBB Accredited Business, if such a thing is of importance to you as a buyer.
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Features & Pricing

There's also a Business Plus plan for $7.95 per month and an Unlimited Pro plan for $12.95 per month, the primary differences between all the plans being:

For merchant accounts, IX Web Hosting guarantees the lowest rates around (starting at 1.15%).

IX Web Hosting is a multi-platform host, running equally well for Linux Hosting, Windows Hosting, or Mac Hosting. (Note: Expert plan is Linux only.)

IX Web Hosting is a particularly good choice for those web business needing a little extra help in the marketing department, with more free search advertising credits than the competition (up to $400, to be precise). And they're not all just for Google and Yahoo! either, but for Miva, BidVertiser, ABC Search, Pay Per Call, and Enhance Interactive too.

Towards the same ends, IX Web Hosting also gives its customers 2 free web business magazines: Website Magazine and Practical eCommerce.

Email support with IX Web Hosting is not the best but it's also not the worst. Rather than offering unlimited email accounts and resources to all customers, IX reserves that benefit for Unlimited Pro plan customers, providing Expert plan customers with 2,500 email accounts that can be divided up between POP3 and IMAP as you see fit. IX Web Hosting also restricts Expert plan holders to a single mailbox quote of 2 GB and a total mailbox quota of 2 GB. IX Web Hosting is, however, one of the few web hosts to include Antivirus Protection with its email services.

Along the same lines, the IX Expert plan only comes with 50 MySQL databases and 50 PostgreSQL databases with a maximum 1 GB single SQL database quota.

Control Panel

IX Web Hosting uses the H-Sphere control panel. H-Sphere essentially looks like a pared-down version of cPanel, with categories for:

Also like cPanel, the H-Sphere control panel has a sidebar on the main page with real-time website stats (though fewer than cPanel).

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Business Plus Linux Hosting Plan: Unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, $4.95/month

 

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