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)

I just finished moving CornerPixel’s main website to ReliableSite.Net’s hosting.  Originally I had www.cornerpixel.net hosted on IXWeb Hosting.  The draw to IXWeb hosting was the unlimited disk space and unlimited SQL 2005 databases.  IXWeb hosting was good for a little while, and I was some what happy with their services and technical support.

Soon however things got slooooowwwwww.  I found that all that space was too good to be true.  Everyone else was jumping on the bandwagon and doing things like FTP was horribly painful.  My site being mainly just static content seemed to perform okay.  I also had several DotNetNuke sites on IXWeb hosting and they loaded fairly okay.  I was also having issues trying to install new DotNetNuke sites because the SQL server was so overloaded that the process would time out and fail.

So having said all that, I have moved www.cornerpixel.net to ReliableSite.Net.  The site is zippy and so far the support has been good. 

My next step is to move the blog.  I think I will use this opportunity to change from Das Blog to WordPress.

~Michael Silva - MikePixel