It is good your website to have dedicated IP address because you have unique address on the internet, you can use SSL certificate for your website, and some say that it helps get better search engine rankings. SSL certificate is a very good to have, because it allows you secure access of your visitors to your website. SSL certificates price is from $50/year and above depending on the certificate. You will probably won’t need to buy dedicated IP address on IxWebHosting because all plans come with a number of unique IP addresses. Expert plan comes with 2 dedicated IP addresses, Business Plus comes with 2 IPs, and Unlimited Pro comes with 15 IPs. VPS plans come with two dedicated IP addresses. There lots of other features with these plans for cheap price.
VPS or Virtual Private Servers are Virtually created servers where parent software manages its resources (CPU, RAM, Disk space and other). They are between shared hosting and dedicated servers. The difference between VPS and dedicated is that dedicated servers have more resources available than VPS, but VPS are cheaper and you can install software, custom programs for services, add custom modules, pretty much anything you can do on dedicated you can do on VPS. Most hosts allow root access so you have full control over your VPS. VPS hosting have become very popular in recent years, mostly because on shared environment you are very limited with resources while with VPS you have more freedom and more resources. For example you may want to create your own game server (something you can’t do in shared hosting).
Ixwebhosting VPS hosting
Linux and Windows VPS are available on IX Webhosting. Linux VPS is better and cheaper unless you need some special windows software to be installed on your virtual private server. There are 3 linux plans offered and each plan includes unlimited hosted domains/sites, burstable RAM, 2 dedicated IP addresses, Root/Admin access, Free cPanel/Plesk on selective plans and several operating systems to choose from.
Ix webhosting uptime have been good in February, though other hosts I have an account with are better. Out of 1321 checks only 16 failed, with total of 97.279% uptime for February 2010. The average response time (the time the web server needs to respond) was 0.571 seconds which is excellent. So far, the average uptime since December 2009 is 97.962% which is good. For monitoring the uptime of this review blog which is hosted at ixwebhosting.com, I have an account with serviceuptime.com. The check interval is 30 minutes. Click here to view the current uptime – live link of the monitoring report. Here is also screenshot:
Three months have passed since I signed up with ixwebhosting, and so far they have been great. I have not had any issues whatsoever.
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The best ixwebhosting plan is the unlimited pro hosting plan and on this plan you will get the best discount possible. The plan comes with tons of features including 3 Free domain names. This ixwebhosting review blog is hosted by ixwebhosting.