iPower Web Hosting Review

$ 7.95 /month

10 GB / 2,500 Emails

250 GB of Bandwidth

1 FREE Domain Name

SSL / CGI / PHP / MySQL

E-Commerce Enabled

Marketing / Content Package


Website Builder & Templates

Host 6 Domains in 1





ipower web hosting Award-Winning Website hosting for just $7.95 a month

With the ipower Pro Plan, you get generous website hosting features for your business or organization at a very low price. For just $7.95 a month, you'll receive one free domain name, 10GB of space, 2,500 email addresses, 250 GB of bandwith, and the ability to host 6 domains with just 1 hosting package. You'll also be able to market your site for free with our search engine marketing credits!

ipower, Inc., The Power Behind eBusiness™, is the world's leading eBusiness Website hosting provider. Our Internet based end-to-end solutions enable small and medium sized enterprises (SME's) to build, promote, manage and profit from their online presence.

About ipower Inc:

The company is currently the world's leading web site hosting provider for small and medium sized enterprises. hosting over 180,000 web sites worldwide, makes ipower Inc the leader in this industry.

ipower Inc Uptime and Support:

ipower Inc has extensive server uptime and customer support:

- 99.9 % server uptime (you won't get any better than this)

- 24/7 customer support at support@ipower.com

- 7 day e-mail support at support@ipower.com

- 7 day telephone support at 1-888-511- HOST (4678)

- free marketing tools for your web site

- smooth transfer from another host (if you are currently with a host)

ipower Inc's Money Back Guarantee:

Another distinguishing feature about ipower Inc is that they provide customers with a 30 day money back guarantee. That's correct -- if for any reason you are not completely satisfied with ipower Inc, you can cancel your account for a full refund within 30 days after you purchase an account. There aren't a lot of hosts that do this, so it goes to show you how confident ipower Inc is in making sure that you will be satisfied with their offer.

ipower Inc launches dedicated servers starting at $49

ipower Inc, The Power Behind eBusiness, today announced the launch of their iPro Line of dedicated servers. The iPro Dedicated Server Line feature a choice of Intel or AMD processors and start as low as $49.00. This product launch strengthens the commitment made by ipower Inc in delivering enterprise grade products and services at small business prices.

ipower Inc's iPro Line of servers were designed to eliminate the cost of entry barriers encountered by small and medium size businesses that require the full resources of a dedicated server. The iPro Line offers the same technology, multi-homed bandwidth, and service level guarantees offered by other companies at more than three times the price.

"Our iPro Servers offer outstanding performance with leading-edge technology at an affordable price," said T. Griffin Conrad, COO of ipower Inc. "This will enable more enterprises to implement high-end server solutions for their businesses while maximizing the return on their IT budgets."

ipower Inc teams with Overture to offer $50.00 Free Advertising Credit

ipower Inc has announced that they have teamed with Overture to offer ipower Inc's Small and Medium Size Business Members $50.00 in FREE advertising credit. This will allow them to promote their business by using Overture's search advertising technology to get their sites listed on the web's leading search engines and portals.

Once approved, their members will be able to bid on keywords and have their business appear in search results on sites like Yahoo!, MSN, and Lycos. With the potential to reach more than 80% of active U.S. Internet users, Overture enables ipower Inc Members to find new customers looking for their products and services. All ipower Inc Members without an existing Overture account are eligible for this special promotion.

"A principle of business is that it's not enough to have what someone wants, they have to know you want to sell it to them. How to effectively reach people and let them know about your product is a problem that every business has to face. Overture offers a cost-effective answer," said T. Griffin Conrad, COO & Vice President of Global Operations. He went on to say that, "We're very excited to be able to offer this service, it's the natural outgrowth of our overall strategy of providing tools to make small to medium web businesses successful online."

"Overture is likewise enthusiastic about the relationship," Paul Schulz, Senior Vice President of Marketing and General Manager of Online Business at Overture expressed, "ipower Inc has proven to be a strong and successful resource, by introducing their small to mid size business hosting members to the Overture promotional tools. Overture looks forward to continuing this relationship by providing ipower Inc members with a successful marketing platform."

The Risk-Free Overture advertising credit is the latest in a series of steps taken by ipower Inc in their continuing commitment to their customers' success. During the past few months ipower Inc Members have enjoyed similar member benefits such as exclusive pricing on SSL Certificates and eCommerce Merchant Accounts as well as a free web site building platform.

ipower Inc's Business Pro Plan is the #1 selling web site hosting solution worldwide. Over 170,000 Small and Medium Size Businesses, in over 100 different countries, rely on ipower Inc's all inclusive solution to help them build, manage, promote and profit from an online presence.

ipower Inc is the 3rd Fastest Growing hosting Company Worldwide

ipower Inc is proud to announce it ranks 3rd among the world's fastest growing hosting providers, according to Netcraft, an Internet services company. The Top 6 hosting Provider survey is based on the percentage increase in Active Sites between April 2003 and October 2003. ipower Inc has achieved 65.85% percent growth during that time period placing ipower Inc in 3rd place.

"The pheonomal growth we achieved over the past six months can be directly attributed to the hard work of everyone here at ipower Inc," said Thomas Gorny, CEO & President of ipower Inc.

In August, NETCRAFT's monthly reliablity survey ranked ipower Inc in the Top 5 of the "Most reliable and fastest hosting company sites." This is a major testiment to the strength of ipower Inc's technology as many events occurred in August that adversely affected performance and reliability for many hosting companies. A few major events included Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, the Power Outage in the North East US and Canada, a much shorter outage in London, the Blaster Worm, the SoBig Virus, and a deluge of related mail from poorly written anti-virus programs. ipower Inc ranked 3rd amount a handful of companies that recorded zero percent downtime during that month.

ipower Inc launches Windows Server 2003 hosting

ipower Inc today announced the launch of their new ipower Inc Windows Pro Web Site hosting Solution. The Windows Pro uses Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 server technology and supports Microsoft .NET framework.

"Windows Server 2003 is the fastest, most reliable, most secure Windows server operating system ever offered by Microsoft. When you combine Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with ipower Inc's award winning technologies and support, this combination raises the bar in Windows hosting", said David Sipes, Director of IT.

ipower Inc's UNIX based Business Pro is the #1 selling web site hosting solution in the World. Their new Windows Pro appears to be following the same path of popularity as its predecessor.

The Windows Pro combines generous amounts of server space, bandwidth and power features at the same aggressive pricing points which keeps ipower Inc's Business Pro ahead of the pack.

ipower Inc announces new Canada Office

ipower Inc today announced the grand opening of its first sales office in Canada, to address the surge in demand for professional web hosting solutions in the Canadian market. Located in Montreal, ipower Inc's operation will focus on building awareness of ipower Inc's Canadian web hosting presence.

"ipower Inc has always been successful in the Canadian market. Currently eight percent of our members are located in Canada, and now with our physical presence we expect to achieve even greater success," said T. Griffin Conrad, Vice President of Global Operations.

The Montreal office will be staffed by professionals who understand the unique needs of our Canadian Members. Technical support will continue to be delivered at ipower Inc's Headquarters located in Santa Monica, CA both via e-mail and our toll free number.

ipower Inc reaches 100,000 customers

ipower Inc today announced record shattering customer growth. In approximately sixteen months ipower Inc has recorded its 100,000th web hosting customer.

The company's meteoric growth can be directly tied to ipower Inc's Business Pro product, an Internet based end-to-end web site hosting solution that enables small and medium sized enterprises (SME's) to build, promote, manage and profit from their online presence.

"We are proud to announce that we have reached 100,000 customers. This places us in a very small and elite group of web hosting companies worldwide", said Thomas Gorny, CEO and President.

"We believe in simple business principles. We have prospered by following the fundamental principles of customer care, attention to detail, value proposition and ongoing innovation. This is evident by the amount of business we receive through referrals every day from satisfied ipower Inc members", said Gorny.

ipower Inc has garnered several awards for outstanding performance and customer service including the 100 Best web hosting "Best Overall Host for 2002" and is rated #1 on HostPulse's "World Best Top 25 web hosting Companies."

ipower Inc has quickly outgrown its competitors through a combination of value, quality, and innovation. ipower Inc's mission is to continue to provide unbeatable quality at an affordable price.

"Our goal is nothing less than being the #1 web hosting provider in the world. We are already well on our way", said T. Griffin Conrad, Vice President of ipower Inc.

ipower Inc announces new toll free telephone line

Customers can now call 1-888-511-HOST to contact all departments at ipower Inc. All ipower Inc Departments have new extended hours and Technical Support is always available when you need them, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

ipower Inc hosting plan keeps getting better and better

We are excited to announce that ipower Inc Business Pro now includes 500 Megs (MB) of storage space, 300 e-mail accounts, and 30 Gigs (GB) of bandwidth. The new offer doubles the disk space and e-mail addresses available in each account, as well as, increasing the transfer rate by an additional 50%. ipower Inc continues to be on the cutting edge of the web hosting industry.

ipower Inc earns "WEB HOST OF THE YEAR"-2002 honors

We were honored to receive the "web hosting Service of the Year Award" from 100Best hosting. Given to only one host annually, the award signifies that the winning host has demonstrated unusual performance in all of our selection categories. 100Best hosting stated that "No hosting service is perfect, but ipower Inc comes pretty close." and "Based on our experience, we feel ipower Inc's offer is the best in the business." This was a great honor as we bested tough competition in a head-to-head comparison of features, price, support and overall quality.

ipower Inc wishes Happy Holidays to all its Members

We at ipower Inc are very thankful for having the opportunity to service our customers. Our ambition is to serve every customer beyond their needs. Thank you for allowing us to service your needs, and we look forward to our continued relationship in 2003. HAPPY HOLIDAY's to you and your family. Sincerely, The ipower Inc Team!

ipower Inc launches Flash Tutorial Series

This month, ipower Inc has launched a new series of online Flash Tutorials designed to help give our members "How To" step by step instructions on: cPanel, FrontPage, Our Marketing Center, WS_FTP, iPage Web Site Builder, and CuteFTP. You can find these next generation tutorials in our "e-Solutions Center" under the title "Flash Tutorials." Now all ipower Inc members can have access to a visual demonstration and a step by step walk through to help understand, use and benefit from each of these popular applications.

Version 2 of ipower Inc's Marketing Center Released

We are proud to announce Version 2 of the ipower Inc Marketing Center. Our members have access to one of the most comprehensive, intuitive and professional "Marketing" packages on the Internet at no additional charge. Our "best of breed" marketing tool includes such features as: Banner Advertising, Mail Center (Newsletter Manager), Search Engine Submission, Alerts, Web Site Tools, and Guides.

ipower Inc launches free web site builder, iPage

ipower Inc has launched "iPage.Com", a template based Web Site Builder giving our members 100s of professional web site designs to choose from. This upgraded version of the "ipower Inc Web Builder" available to our earlier members also enables customers to change designs, pictures and content at any time and is available at no charge to our current members.

We'll be continuously adding new features, services and enhancements to this "state-of-the-art Web Site Builder" which will give our customers an ever improving product at no additional charge.

ipower Inc's Billing Department hours extended

In August we announced that our Technical Support Department was now operating on a 24 hour 7 day a week schedule. We are proud to announce that our Billing and Customer Service Department has expanded its operating hours from the current 10 hours a day to a new schedule of 12 hours a day.

Presently ipower Inc customers with billing inquiries can call between the hours of 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM - Monday through Friday to have their questions answered. With the new schedule - customers can now reach a live representative to address their billing questions between the hours of 7:00 AM through 7:00 PM Pacific Standard Time - Monday through Friday.

ipower Inc announces new "E-Service Center"

ipower Inc is proud to announce our new "E-Service Center", a comprehensive Online Self Service and Support Center for our customers.

We have combined our world-class technical support with the 'next generation' of online self-help centers to bring our customers this new service solution. Our new center now provides customers with quick answers and step by step tutorials to their most commonly ask questions.

The new "e-Service Center" also permits customers to open a "Trouble Ticket" which instantly alerts a Technical Support Agent. All trouble tickets have real time tracking so customers know at all times where they are in the process of getting a solution to their problem.

ipower Inc Technical Support goes 24/7

ipower Inc is proud to announce that we have expanded our Technical Support hours, both via e-mail and telephone, to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

ipower Inc expands with second Data Center

ipower Inc is setting the stage for the next generation of web hosting and Business Internet solutions. We are continually working to deliver the highest levels of speed, scalability, security and redundancy for your online business.

As part of our plan to implement redundant network connectivity to our servers, we recently formed a partnership with AT&T to be our new upstream provider. AT&T won the Top Honors in the North American Carrier Survey and was named the Best backbone Carrier by Interactive Week.

The ipower Inc Data Center will now be integrated with the highest performing OC48/OC192 IP backbone available.

ipower Inc extends its technical support telephone hours

ipower Inc is extending its telephone support hours to enhance its service to international customers. ipower Inc's new telephone support hours are from Monday to Friday 6:00 AM to 12:00 AM (PST), Saturday from 12:00 PM until 8:00 PM (PST), and Sunday from 12:00 PM until 8:00 PM (PST).

ipower Inc is one of very few web hosting providers to pay such a high level of attention to customer service. ipower Inc is taking the necessary steps to train additional technicians in order to provide 24/7 technical support via telephone in the near future.

ipower Inc acquires a web hosting network in a California data center

ipower Inc acquires a web hosting network in a California data center. ipower Inc intends to add this data center to its network in order to provide a high level of data center redundancy.

ipower Inc projects fourth quarter profitability

ipower Inc announces that it is on target for a profitable fourth quarter and will close profitable for the entire year of 2001. ipower Inc executives expressed that they are extremely satisfied with the direction of the company and the financial stability.

ipower Inc acquires SubPortal.com

ipower Inc acquires SubPortal.com a division of iBoost Technology, Inc, a Softbank portfolio company. Subportal is a content distribution platform that aggregates content and distributes it to users on a monthly subscription bases.

ipower Inc partners with YellowBrix, Inc

ipower Inc partners with YellowBrix, Inc, a leading provider of content infrastructure services. YellowBrix provides its services to companies such as American Express, AOL/Netscape, MSNBC, Monster.com, Chase Manhattan and many more. ipower Inc will use YellowBrix content feeds and aggregation services in order to provide dynamic content to small and midsize businesses and vertical markets. ipower Inc will integrate the feeds to its own content distribution platform and provide them to its members for a monthly subscription fee.

ipower Inc announces a strategic alliance with Nextiva

ipower Inc announces a strategic alliance with Nextiva, an interactive advertising company. Nextiva will represent ipower Inc products and market them though their advertising channels and partners.

ipower Inc announces a strategic alliance with VI

ipower Inc announces a strategic alliance with VI (Vertical Innovations), a Portal technology company providing services to the Credit Union market place. ipower Inc will use VI technology to provide portal technology to their current members and newly acquired customers. This technology will allow ipower Inc to provide top-notch portal technology to their customers at a low cost. The portal platform is very similar to the 10 largest portals on the net.

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