I thought I'd take a few moments to share my PowerDNN hosting and services experience with everyone.
9 months ago my company took on the endeavor of building a new web site (we're an online magazine with several thousand pages of content, and well over 100,000 impressions per month). Right out of the gate, we ran into a slew of problems with our original hosting provider’s capabilities in this space. Subsequently, we upgraded to a nationally recognized hosting provider and leased a private top-shelf server. Unfortunately, after 2 or 3 months of trying to tune and optimize DNN we were about ready to scrap nearly $30,000 worth of investment (our time, custom skins, custom modules, etc.).
Fortunately, however, we bumped into PowerDNN (quite literally, 1 day before my staff meeting where we were going to discuss shutting down the project and simply sticking with a classic ASP site). Immediately, the crack staff at PowerDNN helped me troubleshoot a few nagging issues, even before we were hosting with them, to get our site back up and running, and stabilized.
It wasn’t long after this that we decided to switch hosting companies yet again – to PowerDNN. In any other circumstance, this is NOT a trivial thing to do – setting up a server, applying patches, turning on appropriate services, setting up the db and IIS, setting up security, moving content, etc.
When we moved to PowerDNN, they did all of this at no charge – apparently this is a standard service they offer. So here’s where my experiences really started…
- They were able to migrate my entire site (actually, 3 sites) in less than 2 days
- All sites were migrated almost perfectly. It took just a few hours of testing and they were able to dial in the rest of the nuances that I needed
- Every time I’ve reached out to them for help, their initial response time is almost immediate (I’m not kidding, these folks are fast!)
- Their success rate for resolving issues is 100% perfect (we have a lot of professionally developed custom modules for DNN too). Even on the most elusive problems, the tech staff are able to resolve things very quickly.
What’s interesting, is that PowerDNN seems to be categorized as a “hosting” company. Interestingly enough, I would classify them as a “services hosting” company. They provide far more services than hosting.
Overall, my experience with PowerDNN has been absolutely amazing. I would recommend the team at PowerDNN any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
P.S. I am a REAL customer, and nobody asked me to provide this feedback. You can see our magazine at http://www.4x4review.com– this is the site that PowerDNN hosts for us.
Best regards,
Rick