The most important web hosting features of IXwebhosting is the free dedicated IP addresses. This is a perfect news for webmasters who real care about Search Marketing Optimization (SEO).
Dedicated IP addresses are unique identifiers that allow your website to be found on the internet. Most of the shared web hosting providers offer only one shared IP address for all users on the same web hosting server. For each domain / add-on domain you host in the same web hosting account, they are all sharing the same IP address.
Domains which are sharing the same IP address may Not be recognized by search engine as an independent website which may result in a lower search engine result page (SERP).
If you want to buy each domain a unique class c IP address, it involves a very high cost. Even worse, some shared web hosting actually do not allow webmasters to buy a dedicated IP for each add-on domains. If you really care much about SEO, IXwebhosting will be your first choice.
IXwebhosting supports Catch-All Email Address, which allow all emails to be delivered to users email account, even if the email address doesn’t exist.
Catch-All Email Address is very useful when someone mis-spell the email address by accident and the email can still be delivered to webmaster.
The bad news is that Catch-All Email Address feature will be manipulated by spammers to deliver junk mails. Since spammers can send junk mails to a random email address and it can still reach the email box of webmaster.
For this reason, web hosting providers who offer this feature will disable it by default. Not only it encourages spam mails, but also it will increase the workload of web hosting servers.
IXwebhosting supports Hotlink Protection to prevent someone to steal your bandwidth. Hotlink Protection blocks other site from linking to images or files of your website.
In the past when web hosting providers offer only a limited bandwidth, this feature was very important to safeguard your precious bandwidth resources.
But nowadays when web hosting providers offering more and more bandwidth, this feature become less important.
IXwebhosting Multi-Media Features including Flash & Shockwave support, streaming of video and audio, Real video and audio format support, MIDI, and MIME types.
IXwebhosting supports SSL (Secure Socket Layer), it is a technique to encrypt confidential information pass from one machine to another. Information like the credit card number is need to be protected when your customer purchase online, SSL become very important for ecommerce web site.
To facilitate online transaction, IXwebhosting users can create different kinds of shopping carts including OS Commerce shopping cart, Agora shopping cart, Cube shopping cart and Zen shopping cart, to receive order and payments online.
For all IXwebhosting Web Hosting Plan, including “Expert Plan”, “Business Plus”, “Unlimited Pro”, Webmasters Can have Unlimited Sub Domains as they wish.
Sub domain will be in the following form, http://(subdomain).(mydomain).com
Sub domains are sometimes used for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes.
