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iPowerWeb began offering a web
hosting service in 1998,
and they now server over 300,000 clients worldwide. As many
of the top hosting companies do, they guarantee an uptime
of 99.9% on their servers, which means less than 45 minutes
downtime a month at worst. They offer a 30 day money-back
guarantee on their products.
All the top web hosting companies offer 24/7 toll-free
phone support, which means that you can ring them up
anytime day or night with a problem, iPowerWeb is no
exception. However, in the past people complained of being
put on hold for long periods of time, but recently the
situation has improved. Now you can normally get to talk to
a rep within 10 minutes.
iPowerWeb provides both Unix and Windows web hosting
plans.
The Unix plan, the Business Pro, comes at $7.95 per
month, setup free of charge. With it you get a free domain
name, 3GB of disk space, 50GB of monthly data transfer, 500
POP email accounts and FrontPage 2000/2002 extensions. For
e-commerce, you get OSCommerce, Agora nad PayPal shopping
carts. For scripting and programming, you get CGI, PHP and
Perl. You get MySQL databases with phpMyAdmin interface. In
fact iPowerWeb provides all the usual features of a good
hosting plan.
One special feature of the Business Pro plan is the
availability of daily news for your website. This has the
advantage that your web pages will always display fresh
content: good for search engine ranking.
The Windows plan comes at $9.95 per month: slightly
more expensive than Business Pro. This includes ASP.net.
The dedicated server plans for iPowerWeb start at $79
per month.
iPowerWeb enables you to administer your web site using a
web-based control panel. They used to use cPanel to provide
this service, but now they have switched to vDeck. vDeck
provide a highly intuitive and easy to use control
panel.
The data center which iPowerWeb uses with AT&T Global,
situated in Santa Monica, California, uses powerful SGI
Origin 200 servers. No more than 1000 clients use a given
server at any time, making your web site less vulnerable to
hackers. The data center is integrated with the highest
performing OC48/OC192 IP backbone available. This makes
iPowerWeb ideal for customers requiring high connection
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