iPowerWeb Review

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Key Features of iPowerWeb Hosting
- 300,000 MB Disk Space, 3000 Gb Bandwidth
- $25 Google Adwords and $50 Overture Credit
- Free domain name with 12 and 24 month package

Sample Site
Our current sample site on iPowerWeb is www.indiaoz.com.au. This site is quiet a high traffic site and uses mysql databases and php. We have had this site hosted on iPowerWeb for 4 years now and have not experienced any major problems. The few minor problems we have had have been resolved quiet effeciently by iPowerWeb's email support. The only downpoint I have seen about iPowerWeb is there phone support, the delays are often quiet long. However their ticket system (email support) is very prompt. They have also introduced live chat support recently which I have found to be very useful on a number of occasions.

One of the strongest points is iPowerweb's reliability. In my 4 years of hosting with iPowerWeb I have not had downtimes of more than a few minutes to a maximum of 1 hour. These are also very rare. iPowerWeb has also improved their offerings over time, when we started with them we received 500mb diskspace and 20GB bandwidth, this is now 300,000mb diskspace and 3,000Gb bandwidth. iPowerWeb is always improving their offerings which is great to see. I personally would highly recommend iPowerWeb as a hosting provider based on my experiences with them.

About the Company

IPowerWeb, Inc. touts themselves as the world’s leading hosting provider, and with over 300,000 members in over 150 countries in their hosting community, three massive data centers, and an award-winning technical support team, they may just be correct. Located in Santa Monica, CA, they offer a unique, customer centered suite of web site hosting solutions revolving around solid, reliable, and secure network and hardware.

IPowerWeb, Inc.’s mission is to ‘innovate and provide advance, quality products and solutions, along with the industries leading customer service and support, all for affordable prices.’ The company CEO, Thomas Gorny, is quoted as saying, "We are proudly dedicated making it possible to bring to our customers enterprise business solutions for only a small portion of the price." Given the large customer base which the company has garnered, IPowerWeb, Inc. definitely delivers on that mission.

The company is built and operated around a firm set of core values that has allowed them to be successful in a whirlwind market of hosting providers. The values are ‘A Customer Focused Environment’, seeing their employees as an asset, ‘Mutual Respect’, high integrity and ethical standards, ‘Continous Improvement’, teamwork, ‘Empowerment’, and a ‘Professional Pride of Ownership’.

With additional offices in Phoenix, AZ, Montreal, Canada, and London, UK, this company provides global reach on top of their already impressive line of service offerings. With a full range of domain registration, web site hosting, virtual servers, dedicated servers, marketing solutions, and professional services, anything you need is right here.

iPowerWeb Hosting Plans

IPowerWeb, Inc.’s hosting plans come in three flavors: Standard Web Hosting, Windows Server Web Hosting, and Dedicated Hosting.

The Standard Web Hosting provides the company’s Business Pro package, which they advertise as three hosting packages in one. For a monthly cost of $7.95 per month, prepaid for 12 months, you receive free setup, 300,000 MB of disk space, 3000GB of data transfer per month, 500 POP3 email accounts, SSL, CGI-BIN, and MySQL. Additionally, Perl, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, FTP, and a myriad of plug-ins such as PHP-Nuke, Blogger, and a bulletin board are also provided. Finally, e-commerce packages such as OSCommerce, Agora Shopping Cart, and PayPal Shopping Cart are all supported and offered.

With this package, you are given the option to choose from one of two bonus packages. One package provides a free domain name and allows you access to a library of design templates. The second packages provides free domain transfer and marketing of your website. The marketing includes search engine submission and position reports, a Gif optimizer and banner creator, keyword and meta tag generator, a web site link checker, a $50.00 advertising credit at Overture.com, and a $25.00 advertising credit with Google AdWords service.

You can reduce the monthly cost of this package to $6.95 per month by pre-paying for 24 months. If you do not want to pre-pay for that much web hosting, you can pay in either three or six month intervals at a price of $9.95 and $8.95 per month, respectively. Choosing this option also takes away your bonus plan option and a domain registration then costs $20.00 per year through IPowerWeb, Inc.

If ASP or Access databases are your thing, you can try the Windows Pro hosting plan. For $9.95 per month, again prepaid for 12 months, you receive a free domain or free domain transfer, 1GB of disk storage with 50GB of data transfer per month, 500 POP3 email addresses, FTP, SSL, MySQL and Access Databases, ASP and ASP.NET support, CGI-BIN, FrontPage 2000 and 2002 Extensions, Real Media, Shockwave, and $25.00 advertising credit with Google AdWords.

Like the Business Pro plan, if you prepay for 24 months, you get an additional dollar off from the monthly hosting costs. For three and six month pricing, there is a $30.00 set up fee and the pricing is $12.95 and $10.95 per month, respectively.

The Dedicated Hosting plans range from $49.00 per month to $99.00 per month with a one time $49.00 set up fee.

Reliability

IPowerWeb, Inc. uses high-quality HP ProLiant and Dell PowerEdge servers, as well as Cisco and Foundry firewalls and routers. With three separate Tier 1 data centers this hosting company can provide you with one of the most reliable and high-performance hosting packages out there. An extensive back-up power and cooling system, multi-layered security, and network redundancy, your web site is certain to be online 99.9% of the time.

Through a partnership with AT&T, IPowerWeb, Inc. provides a massive 7.2 Gigabit network capacity. Dual access routers connect the data centers with multiple AT&T IP backbone nodes via dual OC-48/OC-192 connections.

Additionally, daily tape backups ensure that your information is safe and data loss will be minimal, if it occurs at all.

Building security is strongly enforced through the employment of guards, closed-circuit monitors, alarmed doors with card-key access, biometric scanners, ‘man-trap’ restricted access to the data floor, and options to lock equipment enclosures.

All of the data centers feature a fully redundant UPS system and diesel powered generators to kick in during the occasional power outage. The UPS setup is designed to provide 15 minutes of operation for the entire facility, with the generators kicking in within one minute of a power loss.

Support

Support is provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through a variety of channels. A toll free telephone number and email support connect you directly with IPowerWeb, Inc.’s technical support team. There is also the option of looking through their interactive tutorial section, a trouble ticket system, and an extensive knowledge base to solve any troubles you may be having.

Conclusion

IPowerWeb, Inc. has won several awards: ‘Best Overall Host 2002’ – 100 Best Web Hosting, ‘World’s Best Hosting Company’ – Host Pulse, Top 3 – Most Reliable Hosting Company (out of 10,000) – Netcraft September 2003, and Recommended Web Hosting Company – Smart Computing Magazine.

An all around support solution combined with plenty of features, security, and top-notch hardware mentioned above create one of the most versatile and solid web hosting companies out there. Their huge customer base and dedication to their clients rounds out an excellent overall hosting solutions company.

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