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iPowerweb Hosting
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Speed, Power And Affordability
Initial Impressions
iPowerweb brings complete transparency to the hosting
market making it the ideal choice for first time
webmasters and small businesses. Whereas many hosting
companies opt for a tiered structure and various
baffling packages, iPowerweb instead gives a minimal
range of what they describe as all-inclusive packages.
They offer standard hosting, Windows hosting, and
dedicated server packages, as well as low-cost domain
names. This combined with the impressively affordable
rate make it the obvious choice for people with little
or no knowledge of hosting.
iPowerweb Packages
If you are looking for a hosting company that removes the
confusion and replaces it with clean and concise
instructions and jargon free packages then iPowerweb really
is ideal.
Even the more experienced webmasters and
businesses looking for an affordable hosting package that is
not limited to small disk space and bandwidth allowances can
undoubtedly find the package for them with iPowerweb. The
standard hosting package, called the Business Pro package,
offers a huge range of features that
you shouldn’t have to do without.
Security And Service Stability
Through partnership with AT&T Global, iPowerweb are able to
offer incredible speed and connectivity. Clearly these
aren’t the only factors a Webmaster needs to consider when
looking for a hosting package but they certainly go a long
way for professional websites looking to make the right
first impression. The iPowerweb data center is also very
robust. Because of multi-layered security, you are assured
of the highest level of security as well as minimized
downtime through malicious actions. Two completely
independent power sources also means that the servers are
unlikely to suffer outage due to a loss of power. This means
that the iPowerweb can guarantee a 99.9% network uptime,
which is difficult to beat with any package from any hosting
company.
The Business Pro Package
The Business Pro package is geared towards individuals and any
sized business. You will also receive a free domain name that
includes 100 sub-domains and an unlimited amount of external
domain pointing. 2,500 POP3 emails with web based access are
also included as part of the package, which should provide
the majority of people and organizations with more than an
ample amount. This also includes unlimited auto-responders
and email forwarding and filtering.
Extension Support
Having complete control over your website is essential,
especially when it comes to making changes and updates. As
well as PHP, Perl, and FrontPage extension support iPowerweb
offers a CGI-BIN, MySQL, and Server Side Includes (SSI).
Every account also receives free online statistics that
enable you to track visitors. The information includes how
your visitors found your site, the pages they visited, how
long they spent on the pages of your site and much more.
This information can prove invaluable when you undertake any
online marketing campaign.
Site Backup
Creating a back up of your site should be done regularly and
properly. The unthinkable can happen, and when data loss
includes your website it means you will lose revenue and
potential customers. The effects can be devastating in many
ways. Fortunately, with an iPowerweb hosting account backing
up your website is simple and quick to do enabling you to
protect your investment.
E-Commerce Functions
Setting up an e-commerce website? OS Commerce is among the
most well known and highly utilized of all shopping cart
packages. An OS Commerce shopping cart provides
functionality and ease to you and your customers and makes
online shopping easy and profitable. As well as providing an
OS Commerce shopping cart, iPowerweb also provides Agora and
Paypal carts giving you the freedom to choose the most
viable alternative.
FTP Access And File Management
Constantly uploading a website can mean regular changes to
numerous pages. Amending them one at a time and then
reflecting these changes on your actual site can be a long,
drawn out procedure. FTP allows you to change your pages
directly on the server making the process much quicker and a
lot simpler. FTP manager and FTP support offer by iPowerweb
gives this functionality to you. The included file manager
also allows for the easy addition, editing, and deletion of
files on your server.
Dynamic Content And Scripts
Dynamic websites get your visitors involved and this level
of involvement often encourages them to purchase your
product, pay for your service, or click links on your site.
There are many different ways to offer visitors a level of
interactivity that encourages them to continue visiting your
site and using your service. Using free power scripts
included in the price of your hosting account you will be
bale to add bulletin boards, simple chat rooms, blogs, and
polls.
Further dynamic features that are included with the
iPowerweb Business Pro package include formail scripts that
make adding forms to your website simple, a guestbook
script, a picture gallery, and a simple search function. All
Business Pro users receive several very beneficial Java
plug-ins that can be used to add a clock, date, counter, and
a countdown function to your website.
Why Include Dynamic Content On Your Site?
Dynamic content offers your users an in-depth experience
within the pages of your website. By adding SubPortal,
included in your hosting package, you can add numerous
dynamic features to your site. These features include news
headlines, fresh content, contests, even domain registration
and more. By adding some or all of these you can help
promote your own site, encourage new visitors, and even
promote your site with the search engines.
Customer Support Details
Customer support is a vital aspect of any relationship with
a website host. There are many technical aspects to hosting
your site, especially if you intend to add dynamic content
and scripts to your site. iPowerweb offers free support 24
hours a day, seven days a week. As well as providing a
customer support email address and toll free phone number,
iPowerweb also provides a ticket based online support system
and answers are provided within 24 hours of making contact.
Technical support is forthcoming from the numerous hosting
engineers and technical experts that are on hand meaning you
can enjoy a seamless relationship and a faultless hosting
experience.
All new clients receive full support in hosting their site
for the first time. This assistance in getting your website
live may prove invaluable if you are an inexperienced
webmaster. As a new client you will also receive a free
domain, a website content package, and a marketing package.
Transfer customers receive a free hosting transfer as well.
The Marketing Package
Online marketing is an expansive and often complicated area.
As well as the capability of adding fresh content and news
headlines you will also receive free banner advertisements,
search engine placement, full newsletter management
software, and a range of references and how-to guides that
assist in all aspects of online marketing. $50 free Overture
credit makes the marketing package well worth using.
Domain Name Registration
iPowerweb also offers domain name registration at unusually
low prices for a hosting company. $6.50 per registration
buys you your domain name, a free parking page, domain
privacy guard, DNS manager, redirects, and other domain name
utilities. Simply for registering a domain with iPowerweb
you receive the $50 of free Overture credits that will
generate as many as 500 targeted hits to your website. The
$6.50 registration fee is the same regardless of the
top-level domain you use.
The Windows Pro Package
Webmasters looking for Access database support, Windows
server functions, and ASP support need not look further than
the Windows Pro package. Priced under $10 per month you
receive free setup and the choice of either a free domain or
a free transfer. You also receive 500 emails, 5 MySQL databases, free email
forwarding and many more features.
iPowerweb Hosting Conclusion
Web hosting is a vital aspect of running a successful online
business or Internet presence. With good hosting you can be
sure that your website does not suffer any undue outage or
downtime and that you receive the full service in terms of
support and customer support. However, you still don’t want
to have to pay an unreasonable amount of money to receive
these benefits and who can blame you?
iPowerweb offers
extremely high quality and reasonably priced hosting packages that include
everything you could need.
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