Ix Web Hosting Review & Coupon $38 Discount – IXwebhosting Hosted

Drupal open source CMS is getting more common and widely use. If you are new to this, its good that you can get a copy of drupal, set it up, and test out its functionity. This help you to better understand what drupal can do. Drupal is much more similar to joomla CMS. Its allow you to create website in a fly. Adding contact page, member login page, blog, forum, news page to your website instantly from admin control panel. Creating website is as simple as that.

Ix web hosting plan is compatible for both drupal hosting and joomla web hosting. Complete with mysql database and latest php version, and allows .hatccess override and php.ini customisation to be uploaded to server.

If your drupal site require https member login page, you can easily setup secure page at ix web hosting, and you can use the free dedicated IP from IX if you require private SSL certificate for business site of yours.

Ix web hosting is more than just a budget web hosting provider. If you look through ix web hosting plans, you will see that their hosting plan is offering unlimited storage, which also ecommerce ready, and forum site ready as well. This mean you can host e-commerce online store with ix web hosting, or hosting a forum website here.

At ix web hosting, you can setup various php forum site, which are not limited to vbulletin, phpbb and smf forum site. If you need a demo of vbulletin site hosted at ix web hosting, you can visit the http://www.ixwebhostingforum.com/ which is a vbulletin forum site hosted at ixwebhosting. Its running perfectly well. The mysql database is responding fast and able to support the vbulletin forum script.

Ix web hosting plans come with lots of mysql database, and all three of their hosting package are now complete with unlimited domain hosting and unlimited storage space. And they now allow 50 database creation on their $4.95/mth hosting, and 100 MySQL databases on business hosting package. This allows more database driven website to be hosted at your ix hosting account.

In Ix web hosting linux hosting package, you are getting mysql database together with phpmyadmin that is mysql admin control panel that you can login to manage your database, table and record.

Note that ix web hosting database is not setup locally on the hosting server, thus you cannot connect using localhost, it won’t work. You need to check at the mysql database section at your ix control panel, and see which server you should be connect to. Fro my hosting account, i am connect to mysql26.ixwebhosting.com (76.163.252.26) at port 3306

• MySQL client version: 4.1.20
• phpMyAdmin – 2.11.8.1

Ix web hosting uptime for October 2008: 99.91% over the Internet

Another great service uptime from ixwebhosting, this month had once recorded above 99.9% service uptime. With only 8 service downtime and each of them last for less than 5 minutes long. The average server response time was good as well, recording at 0.303 second only.

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Ix web hosting service uptime for the pass few months had been greate. It had recorded aboce 99.9% for the september. And hopefully this october service uptime will be great too, as i haven’t notice any big service downtime yet.

Lately i goes in details about ix web hosting domain name and features, you can read full review about ix web hosting addon domain, ix web hosting dns nameserver, and ix web hosting domain privacy feature. All in previous days blog post!

In future ix web hosting reviews, i will look in details the ix web hosting plan for CMS website hosting; joomla, mambo, drupal, etc. Go through the hosting specification and compatibility, and perform some demo setup and test run for these CMS script.

Ix web hosting uptime for september 2008: 99.94% over the Internet

September service uptime was greate, so does the august service uptime. This month, ix web hosting uptime recorded at above the 99.9% service uptime. With 5 minor service interuption detected during the month, and each of the downtime last for 5 minutes only, clearly caused by server reboot.

The ix web hosting average server response was fast, recorded at 0.19 second. A really fast hosting server and response time.

If you are new with ix web hosting plan and now sure how to access to their hosting control panel, here is the best place to get the big picture of it. Cause ixwebhosting is not using cpanel, thus you cannot do yourdomain.com/cpanel kind of thing. Ix web hosting is using h-sphere control panel, and you have to go to their control panel login site to gain access. Usually i will go to either of following URL:

• http://manage.ixwebhosting.com/
• https://manage.ixwebhosting.com/

You can perform normal http login or the https secure login to your ix web hosting control panel. Enter your account email and password to gain access to the ixwebhosting control panel. Once you managed to login successfully, you will be brought to following URL:

• https://manage.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/cpanelcustomeraccount.dspmain

This is the main page of your ix control panel. Here is where you manage your hosting account(s), your domain, your extra ddon services, update your personal information, update your billing information, and from here you can find the link to ix web hosting support and also create new email ticket too! A comprehensive list of features are all located here.

With the new ix web hosting homepage design, now you can visit to www.ixwebhosting.com to login to your hosting account. At the top right corner you will see the “account login”.. click on it will bring up the login box, enter your email account and password to gain access.

* Your IP address is a FULL DEDICATED IP address. That means that you will be able to access your website immediately by using only the IP address instead of your domain name. Please note that newly registered domains or domains that whose nameservers were changed recently need up to 48 hours before they function properly and point to your IX hosting account. But as mentioned, through the IP address you will be able to begin uploading your website right away, as well as view it online by using its dedicated IP address above.

Ix web hosting plans are all come with unlimited addon domain hosting, which allows you to create or add as many new domain website as you require. Each addon domain name will have old folder to host your web pages, and each addon domain name is an independent website that can have own files, database, setting, .htaccess etc.

From ix web hosting control panel, at the domain section, you can add new domain name from here. Note that ix web hosting plan does come with multiple free domain name, you can use these domain names and add it to your hosting account.

Else, if you have domain name registered via other domain registrar, you can make changes to the DNS and point it to ix web hosting dns. Later add that domain to ixwebhosting control panel, thus your website can be hosted with ix web hosting.

I highly recommend business package or unlimited package, as these hosting packages give you the most free IP addresses, features, and better hosting quality.

Please take note that ix web hosting have wide range of DNS nameserver field. Not just 2 domain nameservers, they have many DNS server… i had seen the figure goes to 14… there might be more.

I having few hosting account with ix web hosting, and from the ixwebhosting setup email that i received, following are the pair of domain nameservers that i am suppose to use:

• Ix web hosting pimary nameserver: ns7.ixwebhosting.com
• Ix web hosting secondary nameserver: ns8.ixwebhosting.com

• Ix web hosting pimary nameserver: ns11.ixwebhosting.com
• Ix web hosting secondary nameserver: ns12.ixwebhosting.com

• Ix web hosting pimary nameserver: ns13.ixwebhosting.com
• Ix web hosting secondary nameserver: ns14.ixwebhosting.com

Following are few of the ixwebhosting nameserver that i received, there might be many more. Thus, you should refer to ix web hosting account setup email that you received. Your domain name should point to these DNS corrected, and so your website can be hosted with ixwebhosting.

* ix web hosting addon domain name doesn’t require to wait for domain propagation to complete. You can add new domain name anytime.

Note that ix web hosting domain name does not have domain privacy feature. Ix web hosting plans come with multiple free domain name, and each domain name will shows your personal contact information when someone performed a WHOIS search on your ix domain name.

I had contact ix web hosting support regarding this ixwebhosting domain privacy problem, and i had been informed that ix web hosting doesn’t have domain privacy protection feature for their registered domain name. Meaning that the domain registered with IXwebhosting will not have this domain protection feature.

Unless your domain name is now with other registrar, or you transfered your domain to other registrar that offering domain privacy feature. Then you can activate the domain privacy feature from these domain registrar. For example namecheap is giving 1 year free whois protection to domain name registered with them or transfer to them. You can activate the domain privacy from namecheap instead.