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                                         iPowerWeb eCommerce Web Hosting Services Review Rating

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Price ($)

SetUp($) Space(MB) Transfer (GB) #Email Special Features Rating Customer Review
iPowerWeb 7.95 0 800 40 400 Shopping cart, MySQL, SSL, CGI, PHP, FP ext, Mulitimedia, Marketing.   A+ iPowerWeb

 http://www.ipowerweb.com

  iPowerWeb was founded in 1998 in Santa Monica, California. iPowerweb has garnered several awards for outstanding performance and customer service. iPowerweb is currently serving over 200,000 customers worldwide. iPowerweb offers only one hosting plan: Business Pro. It is an ecommerce ready plan for only $7.95/month! You get 800 MB of storage and 40 GB of bandwidth, with a marketing package, search engine submission, and many other online services.
   

iPowerWeb Customer Support Services

1. Email and toll free phone Support - iPowerWeb has a very good and responsive email support system. Every email sent out will receive a reply. Call 888-511-HOST (4678) for free customer support. We have two web sites hosted by iPowerweb, we are very satisfied with their services.

2. Knowledge Base - iPowerweb have compiled a large searchable database for answers to many commonly asked questions and solutions to problems. Unlike a normal FAQ style help center, you will not need to find the questions and answers by scrolling the screen. You just need to type some simple keywords and the search will return the relevant questions and answers! We have used it to find information on marketing and search engine submission.

3. Flash Tutorials - They provide 49 interactive flash tutorials. You learn by watching a movie showing you 'how to do it', instead of reading boring text files. They have many tutorials such as how to use your FTP software to upload your web site, working with FrontPage, website control panel, MySQL database, etc..
This plan is suitable for business hosting.iPowerWeb supplies each customer with secure SSL server and Agora shopping cart. If you want to have online credit card processing you need a merchant account and gateway services. You will have to obtain it through a third party.

iPower web provides iPage Web Builder, You can use iPage Web Builder to build you entire web site for free, or use some of the templates for your use.  In the Marketing Center, an area where you can login and use a lot of free services, You can use the link submitter to submit your site to all major search engines. You can also use link checker to check link popularity. You can setup a newsletter, create upcoming event alert, manage banners, etc. They also have Anonymous FTP feature.

iPowerWeb Servers and Performance

In comparison to the rest of the web hosting companies, iPowerweb’s server performance is sure above average. We had a few hosting accounts with Ipowerweb, and generally their server would always remain up and fast to load. They use Dell™ PowerEdge and HP ProLiant™ Servers, Cisco™ Firewalls and Routers and premium bandwidth through partnership with AT&T and Cable & Wireless. They have 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. The Data Centers are connected to the Internet using the highest performing OC48/OC192 IP backbone available.

Main Features:

Hosting Package Business Pro
Features 800 Megs, 400 E-Mails, SSL, CGI-BIN, MySQL, Unlimited E-Mail Forwarding and more
Included Dynamic Content
Included Marketing Package
Special Free Setup
Bonus Free Choice of one Bonus Package
  Starting at $7.95/mo
Bonus Package #1
Free Domain and Design Templates
Bonus Package #1
Free Transfer and Free Marketing

 
    FEATURES INCLUDED IN ALL PACKAGES
DETAILS
  MB Storage
800 MB
  Your-Name.com
  International Domain Names
  Transfer
40 GB


 

    Email Features
DETAILS
  POP3 Email Accounts / Web Based
400
  Forwarding Accounts
Unlimited
  Autoresponder
Unlimited
  Email Filtering
  Browser Based Email


 

    Software and Scripts
Availability
  CGI-BIN
  Perl Support
  MySQL
  PHP Support
  Server Sides Includes
  Frontpage 2000/2002 Extension
  Web Site Statistics
  Web Site Backup Software
  Web Hosting Control Panel


 

    Commerce Releated Features
Availability
  OS Commerce Shopping Cart
  Agora Shopping Cart
  Pay Pal Shopping Cart


 

 
  Hosting Utilities
Availability
  File Manager
  FTP Manager
  Anonymous FTP Support


 

    Power Plugins
Availability
  Formail Script  
  Guestboook
  Bulletin Board  
  PHP Nuke  
  Chat
  Blogger 


 

    Java Plug-Ins
Availability
  Java Clock  
  Java Date
  Java Counter
  Java Countdown


 

     Content Plug-Ins
Availability
  Multiple Categories of Daily News Content
  Financial, Business and World News
  Web Directory
  Software Content
  Comics, Jokes and PC Enhancements


 

     Marketing and Promotion
Availability
  Search Engine Submitter
  Search Engines Position Report
  Gif Optimizer and Banner Creator
  Keyword and Meta Tag Generator
  Website Link Checker
  $50 Advertising Credit at Overture


 

     Web Statistics
Availability
  Graphical Web Statistic Program
  Access Logs
  Error Logs
  Bandwidth Usage


 

     Advance Setting
Availability
  FrontPage Extensions
  Error Pages
  URL Redirect Service
  GnuPG
  Mime Types
  Handlers


 

    World Class Technology
Availability
  High Performance HP Servers
  Dual OC-48 Connections on Diverse Backbones
  3 Data Center Locations
  Cisco Routers Using BGP4 Protocol
  Daily Tape Back-ups
  UPS Power Back-up, Diesel Back-up Generator
  24/7 Network Monitoring  


 

     Additional Services
Availability