iPowerWeb Review - California eCommerce Web Hosting

Ranking:	Top 5
Monthly Price:	$7.95 & Free Setup
Key Features:	3,000 MB Disk Space, 50 GB Bandwidth
Corporate Office:	iPowerWeb Inc, 2800 28th Street, Suite 205, Santa Monica CA 90405, USA
Toll Free Tel:	888-511-HOST (888-511-4678)
Website:	iPowerWeb.com

Latest News:

Jul, 2005 - iPowerWeb.com, Web site hosting provider, has been selected as the Editors' Choice Award Winner for Budget Hosting by Web Host Magazine & Buyer’s Guide for July 2005.

Jun, 2005 - iPowerWeb.com upgraded the Business Pro hosting plan to 3,000 MB (previously 2,000 MB) disk space.

Nov, 2004 - iPowerWeb.com has been ranked First most reliable hosting providers during Oct, 2004 by Netcraft (A respected authority on providing research data and analysis on web hosting providers). iPowerWeb was ranked First in the similar performance measurement during Aug, 2004 by Netcraft. See 'Internet Seer', our web site monitoring service, on their weekly web site performance report on this website (hosted on iPowerWeb)

May, 2004 - iPowerWeb.com announced the lowest price in the World for .com, .net, and .org domain names. iPowerWeb has lowered the price of their domain names to $5.50, or free with a one year hosting plan. The only restriction is a limit of three domains per new customer.

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. By Feb 2005, iPowerweb has over 300,000 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.

You will get the first hand and insider review from us on iPowerWeb because this website is hosted with iPowerWeb. Why are we one of the many customers of iPowerWeb? This is mainly because they provide reliable web hosting experience, free domain name hosting, first-rate price/quality hosting plan and outstanding customer service & support. Now, let's look at what are the hosting features that you will get for the price of US$7.95 per month.

Key Hosting Features
iPowerWeb offers 3,000 MB of disk space and 50 GB of bandwidth, which is more than enough for most of the websites. To put that into perspective, assume that each web page (HTML files and images) is approximately 30K in size, you can store approximately 100,000 static web pages for 3,000 MB disk space. And you will need to attract about 166,000 web visitors to your website per month in order to use up the 50 GB bandwidth.

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 (see the similar Globat Promo Pack service provided by Globat), 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" - 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 300,000 customers.

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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)