iPage Review

iPage Reviewed

The iPage team has provided shared hosting since 1995 and includes some pioneers of the industry. The company manages more than 1.5 million web sites with 800 staff at six global locations in 150 countries and sells web hosting services through 25 worldwide brands. iPage is a 100% green provider by buying renewable energy credits that offset 2,660 tons of carbon dioxide generated by operations. The credits have gone towards planting 2,390 acres of trees and removing 510 cars from the road through agreements with staff.

Products and Services

iPage web hosting is for beginners to geeks (their word!) with tools, add-ins and offers to help any new webmaster get off to a flying start. Control panels tools have one-click set up of hundreds of open source applications like WordPress for blogging, Joomla for content management and ShopSite or Agora for online shops. Google webmaster tools are integrated in to site control panels and more than $100 of online advertising vouchers are thrust in to the hands of new customers.

Benefits of iPage

If you are eco-sensitive and want a green hosting provider, then iPage is a company in the forefront of providing 100% ethical services, even though they say their locations are not suitable for setting up wind farms.

For webmasters new to hosting and setting up their own sites, iPage has a worked hard to make a value product with a generous bundle of software applications to make the learning curve softer through the InstallCentral panel.

For experienced webmasters, all the advanced features you would expect for scripting are in the iPage package. As an ‘extra’, iPage throws in a free Carbonite online backup deal for all customers.

Reliability and Performance

iPage serves websites and email from pooled servers with load balancing that means the first and fastest machine available serves a website. Pooling mean redundant machines are locked out and give faster load times and less interruptions to service.

Customer Service and Support

iPage customer support is available 24/7 by email ticket, sales and technical support available by telephone with phones answered in less than two minutes promise. The iPage online help centre has extensive guides, FAQ and a searchable knowledge base. Support is also offered by live chat.

The company has two self-owned data centers with multiple gigabit and fibre optic backbone connections with Cisco routers using BGP4 protocol. Each center has 24/7 network monitoring, security controlled access and UPS/diesel generator power backups.

iPage Web Hosting Features

iPage is a Shared Hosting one-plan fits all solution. Storage space, bandwidth and domains are unlimited running on a Unix-based OS and Apache web server. Popular scripting with PHP, Perl and Python are supported and every account comes with a MySQL database. Server Side Includes is allowed, as is streaming audio and video serving. The company also offers unlimited POP3 and IMAP email accounts.