JUNK!!!  WORTHLESS!!!

This may seem harsh, but I will explain why those are the first two words that come to mind for me.

I have had IX Web Hosting for about a year and a half now, and have seen many a thing I do not like about this hosting provider.  When I first signed up for IX Web Hosting, I was excited and drawn to the fact that they could offer unlimited disk space and unlimited MSSQL 2005 databases.  I thought, “Woo Hoo way to go!”

Well, I was dumb for signing up for the hype.  At first everything was pretty good.  Then as the time past, I found I couldn’t do a simple DotNetNuke 4.9 install because the MSSQL server was timing out.  I looked on the SQL server (via SQL Management Studio) and found hundreds of databases.  They were overloading the SQL server.  (I guess I should have expected this will unlimited space right.  Oh well I live and learn)

Soon after that I started to notice that all my websites were running very slow.  (Once again, what should I expect from unlimited space right?)

Lastly, what is going to make me move my sites off IX Web Hosting is the fact that the server my websites are on crashed a couple days ago and it took them over 35 HOURS (no that’s not minutes, that’s HOURS) to come back up.

I chatted with their support a whole lot in those 35+ hours and never once did I get the same answer.  I got everything from maintenance, to what I believe was the truth when they said the server died and was being reconstructed and that files were being brought back over to the new replacement server.  I also was told many times that I should wait a couple hours and all would be good.  Finally the last time I chatted with support they said they couldn’t give me an ETA.

All in all, unless you are looking to find hosting for a website that isn’t important, do NOT use IXWebHosting!  I promise if you do, you will be disappointed.

~Michael Silva  (MikePixel)