I originally signed up with PowWeb back in 2001. Back then, they were a small web hosting company that offered 200mb of space, 500mb month bandwidth, all for $7.77/month. This was a really good deal back in the day, but later on, I moved over to iPowerWeb, who seemed to be offering a better deal at the time. Only to move back to PowWeb when they started doing frequent upgrades at no extra cost to the customer. Many web hosts require that you pay an upgrade fee if you want to get the same package they’re offering new prospects. I experienced this when I was using Globat for my business website when I wanted to upgrade my package from their “Gigabyte” package to their “Terabyte” package which is their standard package now. At the time, I didn’t think too much of it, until PowWeb started upgrading all their existing clients for no extra charge. PowWeb also had pretty decent online customer service and tech support too. You could post any problems you have on their community forum, or you could simply log on to their IRC channel and ask your questions there. But soon, all things would come to a screeching halt.
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