Our ipage review blog with wordpress blog script had been hosted here with ipage hosting for the third month. There was some problem at the first month, and the wordpress post scheduling are not working and scheduled posts are not posted on time. The issue was fixed on the month of November, and this wordpress blog are since back to fully functional mode. With three months testing wordpress blog with ipage web hosting, we are sure that ipage hosting is suitable for wordpress blogging site. Fast server, reliable and good service uptime.. making ipage hosting a good choice for wordpress hosting. Recently, we updated our ipage review site with wordpress version 2.9, update directly via wordpress wp-admin via the update core function. The wordpress upgrade went through smoothly, and so far no issue with wordpress hosting with ipage.
Ipage coupon & discount price is just $2.95/mo, and its fully wordpress blog compatible. You can use the ipage installcentral to install wordpress site, and following are the description about wordpress blog.
“WordPress is one of the most popular blogging and site-building applications available today. Its popularity amongst users is not without reason; WordPress has done an excellent job of empowering beginners by creating an intuitive administration panel, which enables users to post content and customize their sites without any knowledge of HTML or PHP. However, more expert users find the software extremely flexible and very tightly-coded for easy modification and customization.“
Although ipage hosting fully support wordpress blog, and it come as a standard blogging tool that you can setup at your hosting account via the installcentral tool from ipage vdeck control panel. We are still getting error on wordpress blog, this is caused by the akismet spam protection PLUGIN in wordpress. Usually we are activating the akismet plugin for our wordpress blog to filter out unwanted spam comments to our blog. However, in ipage hosting, its not supported as the connection to akismet server had been block!
“There was a problem connecting to the Akismet server. Please check your server configuration.”
“A network problem or firewall is blocking all connections from your web server to Akismet.com. Akismet cannot work correctly until this is fixed. Please contact your web host or firewall administrator and give them this information about Akismet and firewalls.
Akismet server Network Status
72.233.69.3 Obstructed
72.233.69.2 Obstructed”
How to solve this akismet error problem? We had reach out ipage support team to get this resolved. The answer we received is that akismet is not supported as its trying to make connection to external server. Ipage are offering secure hosting and with site lock feature and enhanced virus scanning and protection, hence akismet with external server connection will caused problem here.
“Hello,
It seems to an issue with plug-ins, it is trying to connect the external server. We do allow the external server through the cURL, fscok or fopen methods. If any issue please contact the WordPress application administrator.
If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.
Sincerely,
Davis Keller
Technical Specialist”
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