IPower
Though IPower has just been in the web hosting industry since 2001, it has turned out to be one of the giant of this industry, hosting around 700,000 sites, and has grown to become one of the largest and most popular web hosting companies in the world of internet. The company states its mission as, “The goal of IPOWER is to innovate and provide advanced, quality products and solutions, along with industry-leading customer service and support, at affordable prices.”
This statement by the company has proved itself true. Winning multiple awards such as the 2006 Editor’s Pick Award and the 2006 Gold Award, the company aims to provide more excellent services to its clients. Located in Boston, they have two data centers; each has a building of 2400 sq feet equipped with the latest servers and state of the art technology.
Price & Features
The company provides domain registration, where clients will get their own domain name, under the rate of $10.95/year. Then they provide windows hosting for active server and Access database support, at the cost of $9.95/month. Web hosting and a dedicated server are given at the price of $7.95/month and $129/month respectively.
Besides this basic web hosting solutions there are features where you can launch your own site at the price of $4.95/month. If a user wants to launch the business online, then tools and services are provided for that too at the reduced cost of $3.95/month. And, finally if a user wants to sell products online, then online inventories, promotions, checkouts etc are all provided to the user at the rate of $14.95/month.
Support & UP Time
The company’s site has a help center where all basic tutorials are given along with respective pages on website, domain or email help. Other than that they also have call and chat facility, the number of which is located on the home page of the site. Support is provided 24/7 along with live chat. The up time of Ipowerweb has been recorded as 99.96% since 2005 and this record has brought it in excellent rankings.
Conclusion
IPower is now one of the most competent web hosting companies of the world and people who are relatively new to this field should opt for this company, for their economical packages. Considering their different packages many small firms have benefited from this web hosting company.
My account was setup fast and my site was running in no time. Every time I contacted support, I got a quick answer and the problem would be solved in a timely manner.