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- "iPage is highly recommended in my book – solid service, great pricing. My site was up in minutes!"
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I started my website with another company and was extremely disappointed when I realized they didn’t even speak English! Then my friend referred me to iPage. They are affordable, have wonderful customer service, and it is so easy to build a web page with them!! I was even able to add the eCommerce option for a small monthly cost.
I am a teacher but I started making custom made dog collars about a year ago. Since they are custom, I have several ribbon samples that I have to put up. iPage makes building a website very user friendly! I highly recommend them!!
) They have online support as well as support over the phone and the staff is extremely helpful.
iPage is a go, full stop.
I know, there are a lot of different voices about iPage but believe me, people just like to complain and they never think about the amount of money they are paying. As the old sayings say: Haters will always hate.
What you are getting, for a small amount of money per month, from iPage, is a lot. unlimited hosting, free customer supports, easy installation for more than hundred of software, and don’t forget, iPage is a green hosting and this means you do not addup your carbon footprint when hosting with iPage. Dude, you are getting all this for just less than $5 per month, whats there to complain and rant about?
What I like about iPage is its user-friendly interface and its superly-fast activation. It’s been good 3 months I am sailing with iPage and I have to tell you that I am one happy iPage customer. For sure, I will rate all 5 stars for this cheap web host!
A horrible host.
If you want to start a website with them, their offer is pretty great but there’s little to no detail control over the services.
If you want to migrate from another host to iPage,you’re in for a rough ride as there are limitations on every step and no help whatsoever from tech support.
- a 10 Mb limit on database imports
- no possibility to unzip files via File Manager (in case you want to bundle a load of sites at once since copying file by file takes a really long time)
- very limited operations via File Manager
- no shell access
- tech support unhelpful on the brink of rudeness
- you need to open a ticket for every operation that’s outside the control panel but that doesn’t guarantee resolution, resulting in having your site offline during the process.
iPage is highly recommended in my book – solid service, great pricing!
iPage offers a way to get your domain name, set up a website and as many email addresses as you need, and do it quickly for just a few bucks a month. My site was up in minutes, with some online chat help from a technician. The techs are knowledgeable and helpful, but not over-the-top friendly, Disney style. They help you efficiently, and get on with business.
Overall, they are a great value, and I recommend them.
iPage is a no-brainer to me.
I’ve been using iPage for the past year, predominantly to host my web resume. I was attracted by the very low price, unlimited storage and the level of support (not to mention other great reviews it was getting).
Throughout the process of creating my site, I was impressed at how iPage has helped streamline much of the development process for additional systems such as WordPress and CopperMIne – systems I’ve always wanted to use but could never figure out how. And even when I made mistakes in setting them up and configuring them (which really were completely my fault) iPage’s tech support was always happy to help, and were very quick in resolving any questions or problems I had. Adding my own site pages so effortless, it was barely noticeable. But for me, customer service is the most important aspect, and I feel that iPage offers a consistently high quality of support and service whenever I need it. I constantly recommend them to my friends and family, and I look forward to many more years of flawless and reliable service.
Avoid these con artists at all costs. They lie about their guarantee and they don’t disclose the regular pricing.
They make it seem like the advertised price is the regular price, but it is really a promo price that goes up significantly after a year. They never tell you that the intro price is a promo or what the “regular” price is going to be.
The offer a “cancel any time money back guarantee” but when you try to cancel they say that is for the first 30 days only and they are going to charge you $35 to cancel the account. I argued with the rep for 30 minutes and they still weren’t able to show me anywhere on the site where it said the guarantee was for the first 30 day only, but they were happy to keep claiming it was and wanting to charge me to cancel.
Stay away from this company unless you like getting deceived, tricked and lied to.
Perfect for first timers. I didn’t want to spend too much money on my first site since I’m so new at this.
So far so good no problems, website set up went smoothly. Ipage let me get my site up quickly and easily for close to nothing – i did everything my self using their web building tools , phone representatives were always friendly and helpfull whenever i had a question….
The only complaint i have is the wait time for chat help can be rather long.
I have been blogging for more than six years, but five years of it was spent using WordPress free blogging platform. On the fifth year, I decided to take it a step higher. I opted to have my own blog hosted by HostGator. That time, they had a promo and so I grabbed it. My choice of web hosting company did not pan out as expected. To cut the story short, HostGator was not able to help me achieve with my goal.
A year after that, I learned about iPage through my husband. I subscribed with them, and on the same day, my blog was published using the same WordPress platform. I was ecstatic and contented. Most importantly, iPage customer services is superb! They help me a lot with my questions.
It has been seven months, and I am still satisfied with iPage services. Thanks, iPage!
I’ve been using iPage for the past year, predominantly to host my web resume. I was attracted by the very low price, unlimited storage and the level of support. Throughout the process of creating my site, I was impressed at how iPage has helped streamline much of the development process for additional systems such as WordPress and CopperMIne – systems I’ve always wanted to use but could never figure out how.
And even when I made mistakes in setting them up and configuring them (which really were completely my fault) iPage’s tech support was always happy to help, and were very quick in resolving any questions or problems I had. Adding my own site pages so effortless, it was barely noticeable. But for me, customer service is the most important aspect, and I feel that iPage offers a consistently high quality of support and service whenever I need it. I constantly recommend them to my friends and family, and look forward to many more years of flawless and reliable service.
Absolutely to be avoided.
To get a simple web hosting plan you have to wade through 5 or 6 screens of upselling, THEN once registered, you HAVE to move your domain name registration to them (which – surprise! – is probably more expensive than your existing registrar)…of course there’s no warning of this ahead of time.
Then you cancel for your ‘full money back refund’ only to find that anything you purchased during the endless upselling is NOT refunded.
They’re simply a bunch of con artists as far as I’m concerned. Run, don’t walk, the other direction.
I am surprise with some of the bad comments about ipage here so I decided to share my experience with the host here. To me, ipage is a 10/10 host. It has been 8 months my site staying at ipage – I remember the ordering process was smooth, the server is performing very well until today, and the features given are more than enough. You might neglect my rating on the customer support department since I contacted the support only once – however, the supports wereresponsive and they solved my problem pretty quick.
I used to stick with Godaddy before I switch to ipage and trust me, things are much, much worse over there and not to mention that ipage is slightly cheaper than them.
I have chosen iPage hosting to host my 12 websites. Here I would like to share my honest review about this hosting.
Advantages:
1. Security impressed me most. I suffered from bad down time due to hacking of my previous hosting. However, after I changed to iPage, the hosting is secure and I have no more troubles. iPage also provides an enhanced security suite with daily malware and spam canning and 24x 7 network monitoring.
As my websites are mainly using wordpress script, I found it is very secure installing wordpress script using the iPage script installation.
2. Second point is technical customer service. They give quite prompt reply and they also provide 24 x 7 customer support. The technical support also has professional technical knowledge. I have faced problem in transferring my websites (using wordpress script) to iPage. Finally, I managed to transfer with the help of the support with step by step guide through chatting.
3. Price is another good merit to me. The price is very affordable with the features of unlimited domains, disk space, bandwidth and mysql database. If you are like me that building many micro niches site, this is perfect to bring down your costs.
4. Green hosting is another reason why I chose this hosting. This is because I hope to contribute a little to the environment.
Disadvantage:
I think the FAQ section is not clear enough. I have faced problems with transferring my wordpress driven websites to iPage at the beginning. This is because they only allow wordpress install through their secure script installation. If the website is manually transferred by ftp uploading to the hosting, there is a problem of log into wordpress admin. The correct way is to install the core wordpress script through their script installation and then ftp upload the other add ons files. It finally solved with the help of iPage technical support. But hey – safety first!
Overall, iPage is a very good and reliable hosting with very good technical support. The Uptime is also quite satisfactory. I highly recommended this hosting to anyone who is looking for low cost but good and reliable hosting.
First I’ll state that iPage is good for personal, blog, and small business websites. It is not good for bussiness, high traffic, corporate websites. Or anyone that needs 100% uptime. I’ve been using iPage for at least 6 months now. In that time, I’ve experienced a few things I was disappointed in.
There has been quite a few downtime periods. That costs me money when my clients can’t access my site and so they move on to someone else. The second, I’m not all that impressed with their control panel. If anyone here has ever used cPanel, this is nothing compared to that.
The staff is nice, but kinda robotic like. Obviously they have a script they go off of, so you really only get some many answers. If you are a web designer, developer or anything related to it. This is not the web host for you. If your website experiences high traffic or needs a reliable host with close to 100% uptime. try another host.
Okay ipage will it works like this if you have a small site they will love you and you will like them. I it’s easy to use control panel, and they are up almost all the time. However If you have a site that uses a lot of memory they will shut you down quickly. I designed a lot of sites and i used a lot of server hosts, for example i have four sites with ipage.com for now. There terms of agreement states that they can shut you down when they feel like it. (User agreement part 18) They state that you may use as much memory as long you have it liked to the site that is a lie. The customer supports are rude and they may close the phone on you if they don’t want to deal with your problem. Truly the only thing about this company they have a great control panel. My advice is to find other host for your sites. There is a lot of host that are better than ipage and cheaper. You can find a free one that will offer you more than ipage like http://www.000webhosting.com great for small sites or for cheap unlimited memory like http://www.hostinginsiders.com that will give you more than ipage ever will.
I opened an account with them in August.
I first opened a support ticket in Sept.
I spoke with tech support numerous times.
Not only was the issue never resolved, the support team was awful. The information they provided was inaccurate and I got allot of excuses but no solutions. I really thought that a few times they must be bots, as it seems they would pick up one word and provide a response based on that one word and many times the response was completely out of context.
Here is just one example:
From ipage tech support
“We apologize for providing you with inaccurate information earlier, and we regret any inconvenience that may have caused you. I have checked the folder ‘Forum’ and the files were already there in the folder. I have checked the forum at /Forum and it is working fine without any issue.”
At first they said it was not working because the folder was empty. At least this support person admitted his mistake unlike the others. As you can see the folder was not empty, however it was not working fine as stated and it was not the only page I encountered these problems. However I always got the same responses, ‘missing files’ ‘FrontPage’ “It’s working fine on our end” etc. Basically the problem was never on their end, the problem always supposedly was on my end. From the responses I got I doubt very seriously they even bothered to check they just sent out some canned reply to the problem based a few keywords.
So after months of this I requested a refund. My account is inactive and as of this date I still have not received any refunds.
Best I can figure is for some reason even when using an FTP client the files would not upload on the server properly. I tested the files using several other hosting sites, using both FrontPage and the same FTP client I used with them – they worked perfectly on 4 different hosting sites (2 paid sites 2 free sites)
The service is not FrontPage compatible as advertised, also if you use Visual studio (which also relies on FP ext) it is not compatible either.
You will notice after you sign up there is a disclaimer stating something to the fact that FrontPage is discontinued so they no longer support it. The support staff kept reverting back that excuse for my problems even though I was no longer using FrontPage with their service as it simply did not work.