iPage Web Hosting Review

iPage is owned by IPower (iPowerWeb), a major web hosting company. iPage is their web creation tool that has been packaged with its own new web hosting solution. The iPage Plan is intended for those who want to build their own website and want it backed only by a very simple but dependable web hosting.

iPage Price & Features:

The idea is good. But the cost of the iPage plan is $6.00 a month. This is surprisingly high for a no frills deal. The iPage plan comes with:

• One domain name,
• 50 MB (.05 Gig) of disk space (Plenty for most personal or even many small business websites),
• 10 GB bandwidth (Enough for a modest amount of traffic),
• 10 POP3 eMail accounts with no autoresponders.

This is a bare bones web hosting package, but it does include:

• The iPage web creation tool,
• Management control panel,
• Web mail control panel,
• eCommerce shopping cart,
• 24/7 customer phone and eMail support.

That is all. No extra features.

Essentially, the iPage plan is a slimmed-down version of the IPower Pro Plan ($7.95 a month) which you can see at the IPower website. The iPage plan is for some reason marketed separately with its own website. They are both the same web hosting company, IPower.

Reliability:

IPower has an excellent reputation. They guarantee 99.9% server uptime. They have a number of data centers across the United States and in Canada, which is a wise security feature and a big plus. As local weather emergencies or other local disasters should never affect IPower (iPage) customers.

Web Builder:

The iPage web creation tool is the center of the iPage website. It is true that iPage is very good. You can select from 150 professional website templates and create a website in 20 minutes.

Money-Back Guarantee:

The iPage plan has a 30 day money back guarantee.

Conclusion on iPage Web Hosting:

iPage essentially provides an good web creation tool and bare bones web hosting with bare bones eMail accounts, and very good technical support. With a very few extra features, this plan costs $6.00 a month.

Frankly, we find $6.00 a month to be more expensive than a number of better plans from other web hosts. These plans are the 1&1 Home Plan at 1&1 Hosting ($4.99 a month), the Gigabyte Package at Globat ($4.94 a month), and the Plus Personal at NetFirms ($4.95 a month). All of these plans offer a good and easy-to-use web creation tool along with more disk space, bandwidth, and many more features than the iPage plan. In addition, 1&1 Hosting, Globat, and NetFirms all have very good uptime reliability and very good customer support.

We can't really recommend the iPage plan. Nevertheless, IPower Hosting is a very reliable web host with a solid history. For those who wish more information or to order their plan, visit the iPage website.

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