iPowerWeb Review - California eCommerce Web Hosting

Latest News:
Jan 16, 2008 - iPowerWeb upgrades the Business Pro plan to 1,500 GB disk space and 15,000 GB bandwidth from the original 600 GB disk space and 6,000 GB bandwidth with no extra cost.

May 9, 2007 - iPowerWeb and Endurance International today announced the completion of their merger. The deal brings together more than 600,000 Web sites to create the third-largest shared hosting company in the United States.

Aug 8, 2006 - iPowerWeb has added a new data center and it has four data centers in total now. The new 32,000+ square-foot data center of over $7 million dollars offers monitoring of 2000 data points through a Datatrax Monitoring System, direct APS feed and ac/dc power backup through a CAT 2000 ekW, 2500 KVA standby generator.

Jul, 2006 - iPowerWeb has been ranked Top Six and Top One most reliable hosting providers during July and June, 2006 respectively by Netcraft (A respected authority on providing research data and analysis on web hosting providers).

Overview
iPowerWeb, a California eCommerce web hosting provider, founded in Year 1999 with offices at Santa Monica-California, Phoenix-Arizona, Montreal-Canada and London-United Kingdom. Today, iPowerweb has over 700,000 customers from over 150 countries. Not surprisingly, iPowerWeb was awarded the "Best Web Host of the Year" award for 2003 and is the world's leading eCommerce web hosting provider.

Key Hosting Features
iPowerWeb offers 1,500 GB of disk space and 15,000 GB of bandwidth, which is more than enough for most of the websites. To take advantage of the huge disk space and bandwidth, iPowerWeb now allows you to host up to unlimited domains on single account. A lot of saving if you have many websites.

In addition, iPowerweb also supports many standard web hosting features such as server-side functionalities (CGI-BIN, Perl, SSI), FTP utility, email accounts, domain features, web statistic software and etc. We would like to highlight few special features provided by iPowerWeb:

e-Commerce Ready - iPowerWeb's Business Pro Package not only is an excellent choice for entry level website but also for anyone who plans to develop a business website that requires e-commerce support such as shopping cart and shared Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for online payment.

There are three e-commerce features to choose from: osCommerce shopping cart, Agora shopping cart and PayPal shopping cart. Here is a sample live shop running on osCommerce. You get all these e-commerce features for free when you sign-up the Business Pro package! You would have to pay extra or sign-up a higher premium plan in many other web hosting providers just to get the e-commerce features.

Web Design Template - Don't know how to design web pages? Don't worry, iPowerweb offers 'Web Builder' feature to help you to create professional looking website in five simple steps without having any HTML skills. All you have to do is first select a template category, then select a template and color scheme, follow by adding your company name and slogan. After you preview it, you are ready to publish your designed site. Here is just a snapshot of a template in Web Builder under 'New Templates' category. There are more templates for you to choose under other categories such as Retail, Engineering, Computer and etc.

Power Plug-Ins - Want to add more features into your website without programming? Now, you can create 'web form', Bulletin Board, Guestbook, Chat, PHP Nuke, Blog, simple search, and even poll system with only just few mouse clicks using the 'Power Plugins' feature. You can add these plug-ins right from the administrator control panel. The only problem with these plug-ins is that they are very 'basic'. It will require some modification to the programs in order to make it more user friendly or to match your website look and feel. Practically, it is not really just a simple 'plug-in'.

Content Plug-Ins - Worry about what contents to put on your website? iPowerWeb's content plug-ins allows you to feed various contents such as Daily News, Business and Finance, Sports content and even jokes or entertainment directly into your website. Depending on the theme of your website, you may or may not use this feature. For example, we don't use this feature in our website.

Marketing & Promotion - iPowerWeb understands the important of search engine marketing. Therefore, they provide keyword and Meta Tag generator for you to create web pages that optimized for search engines. In addition, they also provide Search Engine Auto-Submitter tools to simplify your search engine submission up to 40 popular search engines.

Moreover, their 'Search Engines Positions Report' helps you to track your website ranking position on the search engines. This marketing and promotion service alone could easily worth $49.95, but you get this for free when you sign-up the Business Pro package. On top of that, you also get US$50 advertising credit at Overture and US$25 Google AdWords credit for your Pay-Per-Click advertising.

Customer Support
With over 200 customer facing staffs supporting you, you can expect good customer support from iPowerWeb.

24/7 Toll-Free Phone - iPowerWeb provides 24/7/365 toll-free telephone support at their main line: 888-511-HOST (888-511-4678) for customers in US & Canada. For International customers, you can reach iPowerWeb at non toll-free number: 310-314-1608.

24/7 email support - iPowerWeb offers exceptional email support on various categories such as billing, support or abuse issues. Their support ticket system allows you to track your problem status and you can always expect to receive their reply promptly.

Live Chat - iPowerWeb offers live chat which powered by 'LivePerson'. Whether you are existing or potential customer, you can always chat online with their friendly support staffs on any issues.

iPowerWeb Knowledge Base - In the Customer eService Center, you can find iPowerWeb extensive Knowledge Base for answers to common questions. You can search by product, category, keywords, or phrases to find the answer to your problem.

iPowerWeb Interactive Flash Tutorials - Last but not least, you can view online interactive flash media tutorials on setting up and configuring your website.

Data Center
iPowerWeb, a California eCommerce web hosting company, owns two data center facilities at Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, Arizona. It also has 2 collocated data center facilities from AT&T and Cable & Wireless. iPowerWeb use best of breed equipment like Dell™ PowerEdge and HP ProLiant™ Servers, Cisco™ Firewalls and Routers and premium bandwidth through their partnership with AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Qwest and AboveNet.

Their two world-class quality Tier 1 Internet Data Centers are optimized to provide an industry-leading web, data, and applications hosting environment. These centers are designed to stay up and running, protected from power failure, physical intrusion and network outages by extensive back-up power and cooling systems, multi-layered security, and network redundancy and diversity. Their Data Centers are connected to the Internet using the highest performing OC48/OC192 IP backbone available with daily tape backups and 24/7 network monitoring. That explained why iPowerWeb is rated "Top 3 - Most Reliable Hosting Company" by Netcraft.

Testimonials

Awards
iPowerWeb is the recipient of many hosting awards and honors. This experience gives you the peace of mind that your website is being managed by veteran professionals. Below are some of the awards garnered by iPowerWeb:

> "Editors' Choice Award Winner for Budget Hosting" - Jan,2006 FindMyHost
> "Top Web Hosting Award for Ecommerce Web Hosting" - Jan,2006 Webhostdirectory
> "Editors' Choice Award Winner for Budget Hosting" - Jul,2005 Web Host Magazine
> "Fastest Growing Shared Hosting Company in the world" - Jan,2004 Netcraft
> "Best Web Host of the Year for 2003" - 100 Best Web Hosting
> "Best Web Host of the Year for 2002" - 100 Best Web Hosting
> "World's Best Web Hosting Company" - Host Pulse
> "Top 3 - Most Reliable Hosting Company (10,000 tracked)" - Netcraft
> "Recommended Web Hosting Company" - Smart Computing Magazine
> "Tech Support was available in 5 minutes" - Chicago Tribune Tech Columnist

Summary
iPowerWeb may not have a professional looked website but their basic hosting plan, Business Pro, is the #1 selling web hosting solution on the Internet for two years in a row now. No matter what your budget or technical expertise, iPowerWeb Business Pro hosting solution is a perfect fit for entry level website as well as ideal for setting up virtual shop on the Internet.

If there is a fault to iPowerWeb's Business Pro, it is that there are too many features provided that you may not required for your website. But otherwise, if you are looking for a reliable web hosting provider with good customer support and superb hosting features, you can't go wrong with iPowerWeb that has over 700,000 customers. Offering up to 1,500 GB disk space, 15,000 GB bandwidth plus hosting unlimited domains on single account make web hosting with iPowerWeb a real steal.

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(Note: All International customers are required to fax in a copy of your credit card to iPowerWeb. They need this information to perform verification in order to curb credit card fraud. This fraud verification system is in place to protect consumers such as yourself. Your web hosting account will be activated as soon as the verification process is completed, which normally takes 2-3 days)