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Consider the name - little "i", big "Power": it says it all.
Powerful web hosting for the little guy (and gal). iPower Web
Hosting serves over 500,000 clients with its streamlined,
low-frills packages designed to make web hosting fit the most
frugal of budgets.
Except for the Starter Plan (which is a souped-up deal in its
own right), all iPower hosting plans come with SSL, CGI, PHP,
and MySQL, eCommerce enable, a rich marketing/content package, a
website builder with templates, and credit towards advertising
on the 2 top search engines ($30 towards Google, $50 towards
Yahoo!).
iPower also offers Windows hosting plans, virtual private
servers, dedicated servers, and merchant and web design service
accounts.
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Ratings: |
| Price Value |
8.5 / 10 |
| Performance |
9 / 10 |
| Reliability |
9 / 10 |
| Customer
Support |
8 / 10 |
| Control Panel |
8 / 10 |
| User Feedback |
8 / 10 |
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Overall Grade:
50.5 / 60 |
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Price Value
iPower Hosting is proof-positive that big things come in
small packages. Even the smallest of all their plans gives you
all you need to get a family site or a blog started (5 gigs, for
example, is enough disk space for storing hundreds of digital
photos). For some, that's all they'll ever want or need. For
that reason, we have to say iPower's Starter Plan is probably
one of the smartest starter packages around.
Sure, you have to pay $6.50 for your domain - but big deal!
So-called "free" domains aren't really free anyway. Why pay for
more features than you need (some you'll likely never use) just
to save a few bucks on a domain?
And though their numbers may be smaller than their
competitors' (such as the amount of disk space and bandwidth
that comes free with their plans), so are
iPower Hosting's prices - not to mention that the average
website owner doesn't really need nearly as much disk space and
bandwidth as 99% of web hosting plans include anyway.
Don't be misled by all the free stuff heaped onto various
competitors' packages. Not everything that's free is worth
having. And even small and mid-sized business owners will be
pleased to get just what they need at an affordable price,
without a bunch of unnecessary extras.
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Reliability
iPower Hosting boasts 4 Tier 1 data centers that run
exclusively on AT&T's Global Crossing and Cable & Wireless' OC48
/ OC192 Global IP backbones. Extensive public/private peering
arrangements help magnify bandwidth capacity, internet reach,
and performance optimization. They also use Dell PowerEdge and
HP ProLiant servers, and Cisco & Foundry Firewalls and Routers.
On-site security guards patrol the grounds 24/7 and utilize
closed circuit television cameras inside and outside the
building for total data and hardware protection. Access both to
and from both the hosting and monitoring areas are secured by a
"mantrap", or hardened, single-entry portals, preventing
unauthorized personnel from ever making it into the building.
Intrusion detection and filtering, and network monitoring and
routing are ensured by the use of Network Operations Centers
(NOC) with content mirrored in other NOCs for total failsafe
system redundancy and diversity. Like the buildings' grounds,
these NOCs are also staffed 24/7, in this case by expert
analysts and technicians.
Redundant dual AC and DC power feeds equipped with multiple
backup systems, including generators should the power at iPower
Hosting go out and an array of redundant, emergency
environmental controls and protections make sure you're covered
in case of unexpected crises.
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Control Panel
Former
iPower Hosting clients and reviewers may recall that iPower
used to use cPanel 5, but now they utilize their own vDeck
control panel, which has received such acclaim for its
versatility and ease of use that competing web hosts now rely on
it as well. In fact, vDeck is often referred to as
"revolutionary" and "the best of both worlds" by former cPanel
and Plesk users.
The best part of vDeck is that, since it's of iPower's own
creation, they can tweak it, improve it, and fix bugs faster
than any other web host that's using it could, as well as faster
and better than they themselves could any other third party
control panel. vDeck works best with Internet Explorer 6.0 or
higher.
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Customer Support
iPower has a great series of topic-specific tutorials searchable
FAQs for quickly finding your own answers to your questions, but
if you require additional help, they're certainly there for you,
with email query ticket support and a rapid response time.
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