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IPAGE web hosting has been online since 1998 and offering great web hosting services. Their web hosting services is trusted by over a million domains. This is an unlimited storage space and bandwidth plan and they use vDeck control panel and allow user to host multiple websites in one account.  IPage provides the best quality web hosting product with the best customer service. This is a risk free web hosting service and they include anytime money-back guarantee too.

Is iPage a good web hosting company? We have been hosting with them since 2009 and having years of experience using their unlimited web hosting plan. We host multiple websites, monitored uptime downtime, and evaluated their customer service as well. We know their strength and weakness, pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages. All the facts about iPage are available for free in this unbiased iPage review website.

Ipage web hosting feature reviewed
Each web hosting plan has their own specification and catered for targeted users. Some hosting package is designed for personal website and some are designed for business websites. And there are many other more complicated hosting packages catering special need for CMS website, social sharing website, video streaming website, etc.

We are giving them very high score in feature aspect; they offer the highest features in shared hosting industry. Their unlimited hosting plan at price below three dollars is truly unbeatable. Here is the iPage web hosting features:

1. Unlimited hosting space for all your websites.
2. Unlimited data transfer and bandwidth your website need.
3. Host multiple websites and as many as you want.
4. Free domain name registration.
5. Free Sitelock security for your website.
6. Free website builder with point and click simplicity.
7. Free eCommerce online store.
8. Free blog software.
9. Free script library with over 80+ software.
10. Excellent technical support with 24×7 online supports.
11. Anytime money-back guarantee.

If your websites require 10GB web space, then you can have it. There are no extra charges or hidden cost for extra disk space usage.

IPage Product Pricing and Review
This web hosting company has more to offer. Their addon product ranging from SSL, domain protection, Email marketing, SEO, and more. Here are their most popular produts and pricing

1. Shared web hosting at $2.99/mo with first three months at $1.99/mo
2. Reseller web hosting at $49.95/year.
3. Register more domain at price $14.99 per year.
4. Register .US domain at price $5.99 per year.
5. Add WHOIS domain privacy protection for $8.99 per year.
6. Add private SSL certificate at price $59.95 per year.
7. Add Sitelock domain protection at $9.95 per year (1 free credit).
8. Add mobile site builder at price $2.99/mo.
9. Add AcceptSafe credit card payment processing at $10 per month.
10. Add custom SEO and marketing services price per quotation.
11. Add wireless Email and Exchange Mobile Service at price $29.99/year.

Top 10 reasons to choose Ipage
What makes them so special and why million of domains choose to host with them? Why choose iPage hosting over the other web hosts? Here are top 10 reasons

1. 100% green and using wind power energy
2. High performance load balanced servers.
3. IPage control panel with vDeck 4 and Simple Scripts installer.
4. Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook advertising and Yellow Pages business listing.
5. 2 website builder tools with drag and drop feature.
6. Email spam filter and virus check.
7. E-commerce support with shopping carts and PayPal integration.
8. Excellent customer support available 24×7.
9. Excellent service uptime rating.
10. Lowest web hosting price at $2.95 per month.

IPage speed test and performance
Is IPage fast and with the best performance? We have hosting account with them and we know their speed performance. For iPage, our website with page size of 206.3KB is loading within 1.83 second. The average loading speed or transfer rate is 112KB/second. This website is loading faster than 74% of all tested websites. This strongly indicate IPage hosting is fast and with good transfer rate. Their web hosting is simply faster compare to most others.

Here is the iPage speed test report

IPage speed test

IPage uptime and server rating
We had monitored this budget web hosting for the pass few years, and tracking their server uptime and downtime percentage. There has been 260,000 checking taken place and the uptime rating is above 99.8% for this year. Average server response time is great too, and recorded at 0.355 second in average.

What is the Ipage uptime? Is it above the 99.9% uptime guarantee? For our www.Ipagereview.org domain which is hosted with Ipage, here is our website uptime rating

• 2012 uptime is 99.841%
• 2011 uptime is 98.983%
• 2010 uptime is 98.937%
• 2009 uptime is 99.44%

Ipage uptime and downtime

IPage rating and score
They are excellent in feature, storage size, bandwidth usage, control panel, site builder etc. The only disadvantage is the missing upgrade option, as there is no VPS or dedicated server available for future upgrading.

In the following rating chart, we have completed the survey and giving them a score of 9.9 out of 10

IPage customer support tested
if you are asking either their customer support quality is good or not? Or how easy is it to reach them and how long it takes for them to get back to you? We have experience it for many years and we know how good their customer service is. They are with award winning North American phone support. This IPage support is available via email ticket support, phone call support, and live chat support. And this IPage customer support is with highest quality and highest availability.

Yes, their technical support team is US based and it’s very easy to communicate with them and reaching them is not a problem at all. In average we spend 2 minutes waiting in online live chat queue. In some major peak time or during schedule maintenance period, the queue will be longer. Usually, they have prior email acknowledgement or show a short message at the live chat main menu. Make sure you read it and understand the server side maintenance schedule below joining the queuing.

Technical support is crucial for your web present, what if your website went down caused by server error. Who should you contact to get the problem fixed instantly? If website down caused by website coding, you can correct it yourself and bring up the website by fixing it. When server failure or network failure… only the technical support have access to the server and only them have the knowledge to fix it.

In overall, we rated their customer support service at 10 out of 10. This is the highest level service and we love their quick action to solve user problems. And they really provide solution, they take initiative to investigate on the problem and get it fixed right the way.

You can reach IPage support team via following channel

• 24×7 iPage phone support
• 24×7 iPage email support
• 24×7 iPage online chat support

Ipage North American support

IPage domain transfer and website transfer
If you choose to register a new domain name, your domain is free and it will be added to your account as primary domain name. By this there is no need to change domain Nameserver to iPage DNS, as it’s already taken care of. Unless you are using existing domain name for your iPage hosting account, either you are transfer domain or use existing domain name via iPage addon domain… you can point the domain DNS to iPage DNS and this allow you to host your website with iPage and keep your domain with existing domain registrar. For example your domain name is register with namecheap, and you can change its name server to point to iPage, and host your website with iPage and your domain remain at Namecheap and manage from there.

And here is the iPage DNS (Domain Name Server) and the IP address

NS1.IPAGE.COM   66.96.142.116
NS2.IPAGE.COM   65.254.254.151

IPage address and mailing location
Where is IPage company location and how to locate them? Following is their contact numbers and ways to reach them

Sales Number: 877-472-4399
Support Number: 877-472-4399
Reseller Hotline: 877-472-4399

IPage.com official domain name and DNS
From domain name WHOIS search, we can learn a lot about a domain name and the company behind it. Here is the WHOIS check for iPage.com company website and it shows the domain is registered via TUCOWS; a famous domain registrar.

Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 25-Feb-2012.
Record expires on 25-Mar-2013.
Record created on 24-Mar-1995.

IPage.com website is hosted in dedicated IP address as well and it’s running from dedicated server. Their IP address is

IP address: 184.24.133.160
IP location: Massachusetts, Cambridge, Akamai Technologies Inc.

From this WHOIS check, we know where IPage and their servers are located. Where is Massachusetts, Cambridge? Here is the quick view from Google maps

iPage location in Google Maps

This iPage web hosting is now come with the biggest marketing ads credits for free and they also included two free bonuses inside. For their customer, the new iPage hosting package is now include the following marketing credits for free

1. $100 Google Adwords bonus
2. $50 Facebook advertising
3. $25 Yahoo and Bing sponsored search advertising credit

New customer will get up to $175 worth of free marketing coupons. All the free coupons will be made available within their new hosting account. Login to IPage control panel and go to marketing credits section to retrieve the coupon code.

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