General Impression

IPOWERWEB, Inc is the fastest growing Web Site Hosting Company world wide. Established in 1999, and having their based in Santa Monica, CA., they offer web site hosting, contents, and marketing under one package. It seems that they are the only provider which is doing this at the moment; other providers do not offer web site contents as well for free. They have around 280,000 clients that they serve and own 2 data centers, one in Los Angeles, CA and the other in Phoenix, AZ.

They also offer content package along with every web hosting plan. A definite PLUS side for people who wants to add real professional content in addition to their current web site contents.

Price & Cost Effectiveness
No specials; I think with their current standards, we can considered it to be special enough. The ability to host 10GB of disk space, 2,500 Emails, Marketing packages, CGI/PHP, Guest books, Blogger and many more all for the price of as low as $7.95.

Payment has to be a minimum contract of 3 months paid up front. The longer contract you have, the cheaper it will be.

Technology and Reliability
The hosting plans will cover most standard technologies such as MySql, Php, Perl, etc. If you need specific application hosting, Ipowerweb currently does not have the packages.

Good reliability, we had a couple of service interruption but it was nothing serious and problems were taken care of within a reasonable of time. The websites load very fast at all times.

Customer Service
Good customer service for overall. Sometimes tech support responded within minutes, other times it may take up to 24 hours before you get an initial respond. But when they do respond to you, they tend to fix every issue every time.

Control Panel
Through testing, the control panel has been very fast and very reliable. It is very user-friendly and easy to operate. Included is an extensive customer guide which can quickly guide even the most reluctant novice.