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Introduction
Ipowerweb started in late 2001. Even
though they are not as old as many of
the other web hosting companies we have
reviewed, they have grew to become one
of the largest web hosting companies on
the internet today. They now have over
220,000 web hosting clients. Their simplicity of
their offerings and huge advertising
campaigns throughout the internet helped
sparked this convention. However, along
the way, they experience some growing
pains in customer service, but light
years in hosting technology with their
revolutionary Vdeck control panel
software.
Price
and Cost Effectiveness
Ipowerweb’s
pricing structure offers users a great
value. For only $7.95 a month, you receive
a complete web-hosting package with 3000-megabyte
storage space and 50 GB of web traffic.
They do provide a number of good features,
including MySQL, PHP and FrontPage support.
In general, they provide all the goodies
that are in the premium web hosting accounts
- but at only $7.95 a month. Overall,
$7.95 is a good price to pay for this
type of package with live chat support. However, we didn’t
like the fact that the toll-free support
isn’t provided to the average user.
For users who need asp, they now offer
Windows web hosting for an additional $2
per month with free setup and 400 MB of
space.
Reliability
of Ipowerweb
In
comparison to the rest of the web hosting
companies, Ipowerweb’s servers seem
to be above average. We had several web
hosting accounts with Ipowerweb, and generally
their server would always remain up. Throughout
our year of testing their services, their
server has been down only for a few hours.
This isn’t acceptable, but it is
great in comparison to the majority of
web hosting companies … that is except
for the web hosting companies ranking
higher.
Ipowerweb Data
Center
Ipowerweb’s
data center is located in Santa Monica,
California. They use SGI Origin 200 Servers. These are
powerful servers that Ipowerweb uses to
provide to its users. They also have less
than one thousand users on each server;
which is great because it ensures stability
and less vulnerability to hackers.
Furthermore, they have a total of three data centers all
across the US including in California,
Arizona, and New York. They also now
have offices in Canada.
Ipowerweb Customer
Relations
Ipowerweb’s
customer service has improved within the
past few months. Whenever you called in
the past, you would be put on hold for
more over minutes. They would then possibly
direct you to an answering service if
you were on hold too long or if they were
receiving other calls. With recent improvements,
now you can usually get a hold of someone
within five to ten minutes. Their phone
number also becomes busy quite often during
peak times of the day. Furthermore,
when you are a new user with the system,
they do not take orders over the phone.
Instead, they require that you place the
order online. If you actually do manage
to get hold of the staff at Ipowerweb,
their answers are normally sufficient.
However, not all customer support representatives
seemed properly trained. They claim to
have over thirty five employees within the company.
Vdeck Control
Panel
Ipowerweb
used to use CPanel 5 for their
customers. Their older customers are on
this control panel. However, with over
230,000 clients it was no longer
acceptable to use a third party control
panel software and thus they decided to
customize their own called Vdeck. Vdeck
offers simplicity that other advanced
control panel lacks. It also is more
powerful and since Ipowerweb designed
the own control panel they are now able
to add features or fix bugs in an
instant without contacting the
developers of the software.
Conclusion
In
general, Ipowerweb is a competent web
hosting company. Besides the fact that
at times it can be difficult to get a
hold of anyone at Ipowerweb, they have
a high level of uptime and the most features
of their hosting package are on par with
those of their competitors. Ipowerweb
is worth a shot if you are new to web
hosting, because they offer potential
web hosting consumers one of the best
values out there.
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