iPower Web Hosting

Introduction:

Operating since 1998 iPowerWeb today powers over 700,000 web sites from four cutting-edge technology Internet data centers. One of the shining stars of Netcraft's top performance web sites iPowerWeb delivers top speeds reliably.

Pricing, Value and Reliability:

iPowerWeb is priced to compete with bargain-basement web hosting services. However, iPowerWeb data centers are connected to the Internet backbone using Optical Character (OC)-48/192 services delivering speeds of up to 2.5 G b/s and 9.6 G b/s respectively. The data centers are geographically and individually protected from power failures, physical compromise, and system outages by redundancy and multi-layer security. iPowerWeb technology is on par with that being used on Internet2 next-generation research networks.

Customer Service:

Customer service is available via toll-free phone support, live-chat, and email. Standing behind all of their Internet2 quality technology is over 250 employees so you can rest assured that when you need assistance at 2:00 am you will actually get a real support technician rather than a recording.

Traceroute:

We performed a traceroute from our site in Washington, DC to iPower and found it connected via Savvis in El Segundo.

"Traceroute has started ...
1 tbr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.113.22) 22.582 ms 34.207 ms 29.717 ms
2 12.123.8.97 (12.123.8.97) 38.355 ms 21.893 ms 21.067 ms
3 dcr2-so-3-0-0.washington.savvis.net (192.205.32.46) 152.131 ms 25.612 ms 37.095 ms
4 cr1-bundle-pos1-losangeles.savvis.net (204.70.197.26) 120.543 ms 83.229 ms 85.620 ms
5 cr2-loopback.lay.savvis.net (208.172.34.71) 96.041 ms 105.955 ms 107.369 ms
6 dhr2-pos-0-0.elsegundola1.savvis.net (208.172.35.66) 90.230 ms 94.104 ms 89.886 ms
7 csr1-ve241.elsegundola1.savvis.net (216.34.192.170) 109.848 ms 107.453 ms 86.039 ms"

Try a traceroute to iPowerWeb from your location to view the network connections and transit times.

Strengths:

iPowerWeb offers a wide-range of application support capabilities as part of their regular web hosting service. Online surveys, blogs, server-side programming languages, content plug-ins, electronic commerce, and marketing and promotion capabilities, to name only a few, are all included. New domain name registration is free when you establish a one-year web hosting account. New account setups and activation is rapid. Best recommended for Unix.

Weaknesses:

None really. Skilled webmasters can reap the most benefits from iPowerWeb's technology and business model. Novice customers that require delicate hand-holding may be better served by selecting a provider with less state-of-the-art technology but stronger customer support.  iPower has started charging extra for the ability to perform site backups but this is a necessary function that must be included with any web hosting service.

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