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Review written by Michael Lederstatter
Editor-In-Chief

Web-Professional since 1998. Specialist in Webhosting, Webdesign, PHP, SEO, CMS, Consulting. Any Questions? Drop me an email.

Latest update of this content was: Monday, Apr 4, 2011

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Editorial Ratings

Total rating:

95%

Price Value:

100%

Reliability:

100%

Performance:

95%

Control panel:

85%

Support:

95%

Feedback:

95%

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iPage Company Overview

iPage was founded in 1998 and provides shared web services, hosting more than 1 million websites. Offering only one "all-inclusive" hosting plan, iPage gives customers unlimited storage, bandwidth, mySQL databases and email accounts beginning at only $3.25 / month. An offer hard to beat for competitors. An anytime-money-back-guarantee shows, they are confident in their service quality. iPage has a strict green policy and is powered 100% by wind energy.

A wide range of services is offered by iPage to help customers get their website up and running. The taglines are "Get a Website that works - quick and easy - no experience necessary". This promise is kept by an extraordinary array of web development tools, ecommerce and multimedia features and services, that help customers to set up not only standard websites, but blogs, photo galleries, videocasts and other applications as well. A free online store application is included on top of that. Additionally, customers receive more than $450 in bonuses for Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other web services.

iPage's policy stresses a strong focus on security. Customers receive a free security suite, when signing up to the hosting package. This suite has a value of $100 and gives clients the posibility to display a standardized security certificate for their site. This badge assures that their business is veryfied, does not take part in any phishing scams and that daily security scans are performed to protect the site's visitors.

All of these features appear to be a great offer for only $3.25/month at first glance.

Price Value
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"Unlimited" can not be increased... Unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited mySQL databases, unlimited email accounts... The current promotion price for that is at $3.25/month if a 3 year plan is purchased and $3.50/month if the 1 year plan is chosen. Additionally, $450 in bonuses, free site builder applications, an exclusive security suite, 24/7 customer support, free marketing tools and an anytime-money-back-guarantee are included in iPage's single hosting plan.

In our opinon, this as an awesome price value. There are only a very few competitors, offering similar attractive web hosting packages.

Reliability and Performance
As other professional web hosting providers nowadays, iPage provides the pooled-server-architecture to their customers. This means, the load of website request is balanced evenly into a pool of many, many web servers. In this way, there is a high redundancy, maximum reliability and responsiveness. iPages data center fulfills modern security standards. There are generators to secure uptime in case of a power outage. Customer's files are mirrored and backuped.

We rate iPage's reliablity and performance high. Although there are competitors with even higher data center and server standards, iPage's redundancy and performance is strong enough to be considered one of the top players.
Control Panel
iPage integrated some of Google's services right into their control panel. Adwords marketing campaigns, site search, site map and other Google tools are neatlessly tailored together with standard control panel functions like setting up a mySQL database or an email account. Website visitor statistics can be checked from within the control panel as well.

iPages control panel does not make us enthusiastic about it, but provides solid functionality and all necessary features to manage one's hosting account plus some more Google-gimmicks.
Support
iPage provides customers with 24/7/365 customer service and technical support. They promise to connect you with a real person within 2 minutes, when you contact them. We tested that, when we called with a self-made problem on the hosting account we purchased as "usual customers". Indeed, we were connected in 1:48 minutes with a real person. When we contacted support through chat, the response was given in a timely manner as well. In both cases, a competent, clear and right answer was provided how to solve the problem.

We consider that to be extremely fast and rate iPages customer service to be strong.
Conclusion
Unlimited features, $3.25 per month, anytime-money-back-guarantee and $450 in bonuses make it hard to believe, all this is real - but it really is.

High performance and reliability and an extremely responsive 24/7 technical support make iPage a high quality web hosting provider at a suprising low price.

Although the control panel is rather avarage, all other features have proved to be extraordinary professional. iPage offers only shared hosting plans. If a dedicated server or more processor power is needed for large-scale web applications, other hosting providers are the better choice. Individuals and small to medium sized companies however, will hardly find a more attractive hosting package.

We rate iPage to be one of the top professional web hosting providers with extraordinary price value.

Pros:

One of the best price values in the industry
Highly reliable and strong performance
Extremely fast 24/7 support
Anytime money back guarantee + $450 bonuses
Green: Powered by 100% wind energy

Cons:

Offers only shared hosting at the moment

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