Web Host review: iPower
iPower Introduction
iPower Web has over 350,000 customers from over 150 countries, making it one of the largest hosting companies on the Net today. iPower employ more than 200 employees to support the large customer base and they also own data center facilities in Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, AZ.
iPower offers Windows hosting plans, virtual private servers, dedicated servers, and merchant and web design service accounts.
iPower's Key Features
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
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- 4 & 5
- 2000 & 2002
- 99.95%
- 30 Days
About iPower
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| Rating | No. 10 | |||||||||
| Monthly Price | $ 4.95 | |||||||||
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| Guarantee | 30 Days | |||||||||
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| Setup | Free | |||||||||
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| Uptime | 99.95% | |||||||||
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Value For Money
iPower Hosting proves that you dont have to be big and butch to outperform the competition. The smallest of all their plans gives you all you need to get site or a blog started. That may be all that some may ever want or need. Our research shows that iPower's Starter Plan is one of the smartest starter packages around.
The numbers may be smaller than their competitors' (for example: amount of disk space and bandwidth that comes free with their plans) but so are the prices. In any case the average webmaster doesn't really need the bulk space and bandwidth that comes with most plans.
Small and mid-sized business owners will be well pleased with iPower Hosting as they provide what you need at an affordable price, without the unnecessary extras.
Reliability
iPower Hosting boasts 4 Tier 1 data centers that run exclusively on AT&T's Global Crossing and Cable & Wireless' OC48 / OC192 Global IP backbones. Extensive public/private peering arrangements help magnify bandwidth capacity, internet reach, and performance optimization. They also use Dell PowerEdge and HP ProLiant servers, and Cisco & Foundry Firewalls and Routers.
On-site security guards patrol the grounds 24/7 and utilize closed circuit television cameras inside and outside the building for total data and hardware protection. Intrusion detection and filtering, and network monitoring and routing are ensured by the use of Network Operations Centers (NOC) with content mirrored in other NOCs for total failsafe system redundancy and diversity. Like the buildings' grounds, these NOCs are also staffed 24/7, in this case by expert analysts and technicians.
Redundant dual AC and DC power feeds equipped with multiple backup systems, including generators should the power at iPower Hosting go out and an array of redundant, emergency environmental controls and protections make sure you're covered in case of unexpected events.
Control Panel
iPower Hosting uses their own vDeck control panel, which has received such acclaim for its versatility and ease of use that competing web hosts now rely on it as well. The best part is that since vDeck is iPower's own creation, they can tweak it, improve it, and fix bugs faster than any other web host that's using it could
Customer Support
iPower provide a great series of topic-specific tutorials searchable FAQs for quickly finding your own answers to your questions, but if you require additional help, they're certainly there for you, with email query ticket support and a rapid response time.
