General
Powweb was founded in 1999 and has been a pioneer in “low cost” web hosting.
One major characteristic of Powweb today is that they have built and maintain their own infrastructure and operations software. They do not rely on third party software integration like many others do.
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Created: 1999
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Parent company: Endurance
User experience
Our Powweb test site showed acceptable response times for static pages. However, dynamic pages including MySQL queries were slow. Too slow…
Powweb offer their inhouse built control panel called PowWebOps which seems complete and functional. It is actually a refreshing alternative to cPanel.
b2evolution and other applications can be easily installed through the “Install Central” service.
Creating and managing MySQL databases is easier than with cPanel 10 or 11.
Technical specs
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PHP version: 4.4.7 – Up to date but we would like to see PHP 5 by default.
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PHP security: Medium (register_globals is on)
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MySQL version: 5.0.45
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GD library: 2.0.28 – Good.
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Perl version: 5.8.8
PHP errors are not shown by default. You have to go see the “CGI Error Logs” in the PowWebOps. This makes troubleshooting a tedious task. Also, this cannot be considered to be the result of a very proactive a security decision, since Powweb left register_globals on, which is a far bigger issue as far as PHP security is concerned.
We also noted that some common environment variables that are commonly used on all hosting platforms are not available on Powweb which may cause compatibility issues with recent scripts.
Conclusion
Because of the limited technical specs, we only recommend PowWeb for very small and simple websites where a low cost price hosting is more important than technical perfection.
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