IPower Bio:

  • Established: 2001
  • Sites Hosted: 700,000
  • Location: Boston, MA
  • Host Award: "Top Features"
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  • Featured Package Price:$4.95
    /month
  • Storage Space:Unlimited
  • Transfer/Bandwidth:Unlimited
  • Setup Fee:Free
  • Domain Name:Free
  • Money-Back Guarantee:30-Day
  • Uptime Guarantee:99%
  • Free Website Builder:Yes
  • Multiple Domains:Unlimited
  • E-mail Accounts:2500
  • MySQL Databases:25
  • Control Panel:VDeck
  • Operating System:Linux
  • Server Backups:Daily
  • 24/7 Monitoring:Yes
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  • Wordpress
  • Joomla
  • Drupal
  • Mambo
  • b2 Evolution
  • Coppermine
  • osCommerce
  • phpbb
  • Ruby on Rails
  • PHPMyAdmin
 
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  • Overall Score:

    84%

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Our Review of: iPower

 

Overview:

iPower is the source for your online business! Strategically located in Phoenix, AZ, iPower was started in 2001 and is currently the 5th largest web hosting company, world-wide. Because of their size, they maintain multiple reliable and secure datacenters and employ over 250 workers.

They are trusted by a staggering 700,000 customers and growing. They specialize in offering their customers a wide range of services, to meet the demands of almost any sized business.

Features & Specials:

iPower offers multiple hosting plans, along with dedicated servers, for sites that need the utmost in storage and processing capabilities. They also offer virtual servers, for sites that require a little more resources than normal, but without the complexity of maintaining their own dedicated server. This is a good choice for medium sized businesses.

They offer an immense amount of scripts and features, not found at other hosts, to give your site more functionality. iPower also offers free setup, free domain name, free web-site marketing tools, 24/7 support, 30-day money-back guarantee and more. If you need a little help designing and publishing your site, they can also help out with that, with their web design service.

Also, right now for a limited time, they offer a free advertising credits of $50 at Yahoo! and $30 at Google!

 

Reliability & Speed:

Thanks to their massive size, iPower maintains multiple redundant data centers, to ensure your site is always up and running. They utilize best in class hosting equipment, such as Dell PowerEdge and HP Proliant servers, Cisco firewalls and routers. Their backbone is hosted through AT&T. Their datacenters are also protected from power failure, outages, intrusion, or data-loss, by their extensive network of back-up power, cooling systems, multi-layered security and network redundancy and data backup.

Reliability & Speed Factors:

Uptime Guarantee
99%
Server File Backups
Load-Balancing
Connections
n/a
24/7 Monitoring
Redundant Power
 

Support:

iPower customers have a strong offering of customer support services, if they're ever needed. You can reach iPower's customer support 24/7, through multiple sources. They offer online chat, online trouble ticketing system, toll-free 24/7 phone support and an extensive online documentation section, to assist with account setup basics. That said, rest assured, your questions will be answered quickly and thoroughly.

Control Panel:

iPower utilizes the industry famous vDeck control panel, which makes account setup and maintenance a breeze. You can easily, manage domain names, create and manage e-mail addresses, shopping cart management, web site statistics and implement plugins and databases. For all intensive purposes, iPower's control panel makes web site management simple and straight to the point. We would also rate it among the easiest of hosting control panels to navigate and operate.

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What sets them apart?

"Everything you need for your online business" - iPower
With over 700,000 web sites hosted, iPower is the 5th largest web hosting company world-wide!
iPower's huge library of scripts and plugins, to help make your site more functional and creative, are second to none!
 

Summary:

iPower is rated as the #10 rated web host, not only because of their size and reliability, but because of the large number of scripts and resources they provide, to make your site stand out from the rest. All this, along with their easy-to-use control panel and great selection of high quota hosting plans to meet the needs of almost any sized business, make them a serious contender in the web hosting industry.

iPower is a great example of a large company that hasn't forgotten what's most important, the customer! Check them out now and see how one of the largest web hosting companies runs the show...

 

iPower Ratings ChartScore: 84%

Value for Money
4 / 5
Reliability & Uptime
4 / 5
Customer Courtesy
4 / 5
Technical Support
4 / 5
Features
4 / 5
Storage Space
4 / 5
Bandwidth
3 / 5
Tech Response Time
4 / 5
Ease of Use
5 / 5
Server Speed
3 / 5
 
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5years ago this was a good host, now its junk

Review by: MDWEBNECK.COM, from USA
        I don’t recommend this host

I have been with them since 2000 and had no issues with them until they fouled up their server upgrade in 2006 causing myself and friends who I had referred to them to lose access, emails etc

In this past year, a bug on their servers corrupted their generated htaccess files.

This caused my site to be flagged by firefox as a malicious website.

To make a long story short, ipower blamed me for the scripts though I had never loaded any scripts to my site. To prove it, I deleted all of my files leaving THEIR server generated files on board.




 
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These people ****

Review by: James, from Orangevale, California
        I don’t recommend this host

They are over priced, their technical support is great as long as you have an afternoon to wait on the phone. Try leaving them, they wouldn't let go of my site after several calls taking hours. I have been dealing with them for YEARS. trust me on this...




 
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Promo Package beware what you get

Review by: Robert, from Iowa, USA
        I don’t recommend this host

2006 simple features worked well, they changed the control panel, I no longer drop & drag my pics to my pages . You need to be a geek and no ftp & html. I tried all their tutorals nothing explaind how you load (move) it to a specfic page. if i could have figured it out I would have been ok. Tech support was always their, but I always got some one over seas and I could not undestand their instructions with broken english, they would do it for me and informed me that my easy features were not there. Do your home work-- call their tech support -- ask lots questions




 
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Stay away from this company. DO NOT USE IPOWER!!!!

Review by: K John, from Atlanta,GA
        I don’t recommend this host

They hold your domain name hostage so they can make charges on your credit card. Their technical support is the worst I've ever seen. Do not waste your money on this company. It is a ripoff. You have been warned. Stay away!!




 
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Slime Operation

Review by: Jim Banks, from usa
        I don’t recommend this host

This company keeps sending spam to my computer and phone.

They obviously are real slimeballs as they don't have a method to opt out.




 
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Would recommend iPower

Review by: Dave, from Atlanta
        I recommend this host

We can't really complain as no big issues for us. We have been with them for a few months now.




 
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Decent hosting

Review by: Teresa , from Pennsylvania
        I recommend this host

iPower is a huge hosting company, I didn't realize that. They're one of the largest out there, so they have their own datacenter and don't outsource tech support, which is a good thing in most cases. The problem is their features aren't that great and my site has been down a couple times this month.




 
 




 
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