IPOWER offers 300 GB of storage and 3000 GB of monthly transfer ability; in addition, they also offer web marketing tools and a versatile email package. For those who already have a website service, but would like to change to IPOWER, they offer free transfers and a 30-day money back guarantee on all hosted accounts.

This service caters to eCommerce sites with a choice of OS, Agora or a Pay Pal shopping cart and a free marketing package that includes, a search engine submitter and position report, a Gif Optimizer, a keyword and meta tag generator, a website link checker and a banner creator. For secure financial transactions, they include a shared SSL Certificate and the ability to receive credit cards for a one-time setup fee. You can monitor your web stats through their Graphical Web Statistic Program, and access and error logs.

The software and scripts available include CGI-BIN, Perl Support, MySQL, PHP Support, Server Sides and Frontpage 2000/2002 Extensions.

IPOWER offers an all-inclusive email service with 2,500 POP3 accounts with web and browser based email. The email features include unlimited forwarding, aliases and autoresponses, as well as a catchall and SMTP email and spam protection. This email is powerful enough to support most businesses and certainly over performs for personal applications.

They offer many plug-ins including things like a guestbook, chat, bulletin board, poll or bloggers as well as Java and content plug-ins. Content plug-ins help make your site dynamic and offer visitors new material everyday in the form of daily financial, business or world news and even comics or jokes.

Unlike some of the lower ranked services, IPOWER provides advanced features and settings like a URL redirect service, GnuPG, supports Mime Types, Cron Jobs and Hot Links and has the ability to ban IP addresses.

To help keep their claim of 99.9% uptime reality, IPOWER utilizes high performance HP servers, dual OC-48 connections on diverse backbones, Cisco routers using BGP4 protocol and provide 24/7 network monitoring. If problems do occur, they can keep your site up and running by diversifying information through three data centers with daily back up tapes and in the event of a power outage they have available diesel back-up generators. Therefore, with IPOWER, a little power outage will not freeze your site.

Overall, IPOWER provides everything to get an eCommerce business started or is a wise alternative to a sluggish host that your business or organization has outgrown.

Customer Service:

IPOWER offers comprehensive, responsive online and direct customer and technical support. Online they post an extensive, searchable knowledge database that covers every subject. They are also responsive to email and chat inquiries, answering quickly, concisely and always ask you if they have answered your question to your satisfaction. As for the 24/7 toll-free telephone support, they answered our calls after a wait of about 6 or 7 minutes. The telephone support technicians that we reviewed were upbeat and stated that at IPOWER they wanted 100% customer satisfaction before moving on.

If you prefer learning by tutorials, IPOWER offers over 100 brilliantly designed interactive flash tutorials. These cover topics related to email, file transfer, control panel function (vDeck) and others. In order to learn how to complete a specific tack, you can choose from several types of instruction, including flash video presentations, systematic visuals, text-only, printouts or you can even choose to receive the set of instructions through an email.

Even an eCommerce newbie, with the help of elaborate, intensive customer care and help pages, can publish an attractive site in no time and manage it with ease.

Control Panel:

The control panel displays large, easy to interpret icons organized into various categories, such as, reports, settings, email, plug-ins, applications and marketing. Through the panel, you can manage your site and create web pages and logos.

IPOWER employ several control panels, depending on the package purchased. New shared, hosted accounts use VDec-a crisp, sophisticated control panel that is powerful yet simple to use. VDeck has built in webpage publishing tools. The help sections in VDeck are extensive, but often unnecessary since most functions are self-explanatory. The statistics function runs with AWStats (Advanced Web Statistics), an application capable of generating a wide range of easy-to-read reports that help you get a clear idea of your site traffic.

Summary:

Empower your site and tower over the competition with IPOWER. With this service even high traffic sites operate with nearly 100% uptime, and with 3000 GB of monthly transfer ability, your site will never bog down with too many users.

So, if you are ready to roll onto the Internet highway or would just like to change lanes, IPOWER provides an accelerated, smooth ride.