iPage Review & Coupon $3.50/month

Hosting blogs are different compared to hosting websites. As far as I know the best blogging service is the wordpress blog. The question is where to host your blog? There are many hosting providers provides blog hosting, to simply put almost all the hosting providers provides blog hosting service and one of them is the Ipage hosting.

Ipage hosting is a more reliable hosting provider, you can see there are so many wordpress blog users using the Ipage hosting service to host their blogs.

Installing wordpress blog is way too easy with the help of Ipage’s vdeck control panel. I always prefer downloading the latest version of wordpress blog and uploading it to the server which helps avoiding many troubles like updating the blog, etc. With the help of vdeck’s FTP manager you can easily upload the wordpress blog to your server and the installation will be over in no time.

As a good news for all blog & website users, the price of the Ipage hosting is only $3.50 per month which is not even half the price other hosting companies will cost you. As far as I know Ipage hosting is the best budget hosting company around.

To the top Ipage hosting also offer security suit which makes your blogs free of spams and all other security issues.

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The thing that makes the Ipage hosting company unique is its security suite. As far as I know there are no hosting companies other than Ipage hosting provides this service.

Ipage hosting plan comes with free sitelock feature which worth more than $100. Obviously your website requires daily malware scan, spam scan and over all network scan which makes your website free of problems. Your website files will be hosted in a secure data center which makes your website totally secure and you can even display secure business verification logo in your website (secure business verification logo specifies that there will be no spam or malwares in your website which puts your customers at stake when using their credit card information or any other personal information in your website). This allows you to display cert at your website which will obviously give your customers confidence to shop in your website and will give your website a good name.

There is one specific thing you need to notice. If you are using wordpress blog then you might also be using akismet plugin to filter out unwanted spam comments in your blog, but since akismet plugin will try to connect to external server Ipage hosting doesn’t support that plugin. Lets see what Ipage technical specialists says about this,

“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.”

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As the vdeck control panel improves a lot, in the version 3 of vdeck control panel two new services has been added namely Account Management services and Reseller Account Management Services.

In the Account Management services there are three features present which are Online billing console (This solves the problem of monthly billing for the hosting, many of us have faced problem during billing when we haven’t subscribed for recurring charges, but now it can be solved easily), Online support ticketing system (If you not interested in long chat with the chat help support, then you can use the online support ticketing system just to send them your problem and check later for the solution), customizable control panel design layouts (if you are not feeling comfortable with the design layout of the control panel, now you can change the vdeck’s design layouts as you wish).

In the reseller account management services four features are present which are Historical billing records and cost breakdowns for each account (we don’t need to get confused when checking the billing records of our clients with the help of this feature), Detailed monthly invoices and printable receipts, An option for grouped billing and consolidated invoices and the ability to brand your client control panel with your logo, colors and fonts (This helps a lot when you want to promote your product through your client’s control panel). Unfortunately, Ipage hosting doesn’t offer reseller accounts at present, I will update this post when it does.

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In Vdeck’s version 3, there are many features have been added. The updated parts of vdeck are, Web site management, Email management, Domain Management, Ecommerce Services, Marketing Services, Account Management and Reseller Account Management.

In Web site management two new features has been added which are SiteDelux site creation tool and Website Creator (Powered by CM4all). In Email management one new feature has been added and one feature has been improved which are, Constant contact enewsletters and improved powerful spam and virus protection. In Domain Management one new feature has been added and one feature has been improved which are DomainCentral and improved management of subdomains. In Ecommerce services one new feature has been added which is Shopsite script. In Marketing services three new feature has been added and one feature has been improved which are Free search engine coupons ($30 or more), Pay per click advertising, Logo design services and improved Email newsletter creation and distribution services. Reseller hosting is currently not provided by Ipage hosting so the reseller account management services are needed to be concerned.

In Account management services three new features has been added namely Online Billing console, online support ticketing system and  customizable control panel design layouts. In Reseller account management services four new features has been added namely Historical billing records and cost breakdowns for each account, detailed monthly invoices and printable receipts, an option for grouped billing and consolidated invoices and the ability to brand your client control panel with your logo, colors and fonts.

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File Transfer Protocol helps in uploading files from your PC to your website server. File Transfer Protocol is always used with the help of design software like dreamweaver, frontpage, etc. There are so many free FTP clients available in the internet like Filezilla. The one thing which we need to notice is that simply registering the domain won’t make it work right away, normally it will take around one to two hours for DNS records to be created and it may take up to 1 day for the update to spread world wide.

A notable thing about Ipage is that not all web hosting providers supports both normal FTP connection and secure FTP connection. Many hosting providers only support normal FTP connections, which makes Ipage even more reliable. Also it is necessary for your ftp client to support secure FTP connection to use Fatcow’s secure FTP connection. If you are not sure about this, I recommend using filezilla ftp client software. You can learn more about filezilla from their website itself. If you are using any other ftp client software make sure it supports secure FTP connection.

Addition to this, the price of Ipage hosting is less than $4 which is almost half the price or we can say less than half the price compared to the other web hosting companies with similar features.

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First lets take a look at what FTP is. FTP which means File Transfer Protocol is the protocol through which we upload and download files to and from our server. Obviously, not all FTP softwares will work good when it comes to uploading vast amount of files and folders. By research I found out that the Ipage’s FTP is working fine for both uploading and downloading. We can take more than 10 wordpress blog for instance, lets say we upload them all through FTP for installation, with this much files it will be very hard to control and may take a lot of time to upload. Now lets skip to the result, obviously the FTP worked perfect till the end and the speed is fairly quick too.

Addition to this, Ipage hosting now offers secure FTP connection too, which adds the value to their hosting plan. Most people usually use filezilla and other free ftp manager to upload and download files, but when it comes to operations like copy & paste, deleting huge list of files or deleting a directory with large number of files or deleting an entire website, the ftp managers will take quite large amount of time to complete the process, but with the help of Ipage hosting’s vdeck all these processes can be done in relatively short amount of time. Also you can archieve files and can change file’s permissions for security purposes at will through the filemanager beta.

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Ipage hostings comes with google webmaster tool integration and custom google search tool.

First lets see what Ipage says about this,

“Finally! Tools to help you understand how Google® views your site. If you want to learn how to improve traffic to your site or why pages on your site may cause problems for the Google crawlers—add Google Webmaster Tools to your iPage account for FREE“

If you are planning to have a search tool to your website, you can do so with the google custom search tool. Lets see what google custom search tool is,

“With Google Site Search, you can put a Google search box on your Web site and enable prospective visitors and customers to find information instantly.

Help your Web site visitors find what they’re looking for by adding search capabilities to your site. You don’t need to be a programmer to create a search engine—simply leverage Google’s technology! You can even set your Custom Search to search your site only, so visitors stay on your Web site.

Adding Google Custom Search to your site is a quick and easy process, and it comes FREE with your FatCow account.”

Addition to custom search you can also use Google webmaster tools which will help you to get better insight of your website, it will help you to learn about your website traffic and will help in solving search engine issues. Let’s see what Google webmaster tool is,

“Google webmaster tools: Improve traffic and increase visibility on Google with this free tool. Get Google’s view of your site, diagnose problems and share info with Google to help improve your site’s visibility in Google results.“

Addition to this, the new version of vdeck control panel provides search engine optimization tools as well.

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Most people has no idea about what green web hosting is. If you are one of them then you might be having questions like Why should I use Green web hosting? What Green web hosting can do to improve my website? Now I will answer your questions in this post.

Green web hosting means fully eco friendly web hosting. Generally data centres energy consumption and the generators will increase the carbon’s contents in the atmosphere and may affect web hosting uptime and hosting service quality. With eco friendly Green web hosting, all these problems can be avoided. This answers your second question as well, obviously using Green web hosting will reduce the possibility of potential file lose due to hardware crash, power shutdown, etc. Because of this your website’s functionality will be good and there will be no poor performance for your website which gives your website a good impression to the visitors.

Addition to that, Ipage hosting announced that the energy used for their data centers and servers are obtained from 100% wind energy which is huge contribution to the environment. With 100% wind energy to avoid the carbon release is a great thing and I personally encourage every one to use Green web hosting.

Now there are few more Green web hosting providers are present. Considering the low price and other features, I recommend to choose Ipage Green web hosting over the other hosting providers.

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A server’s downtime refers to the situation when the system is unavailable due to some reasons. The downtime is the time period when the server is unable to perform its basic operation which may be related to reliability, recovery, availability and unavailability. The downtime is the opposite to the uptime so there is no need for seperate caculation of server’s downtime.

Normally the server downtime is caused due to the unplanned outages or system failures or communication failures, etc. If the percentage of the average server’s download is above 5 to 10 then it means the server is showing poor uptime and is not good for your website.

A server’s download can reflect many things to your website. You might lose some of your visitors there by might lose some of your profits. In some cases your website’s PR value will be reduced because of the downtime and may result in lowered position in search engines and it will be hard to reach the lost place again. So, it is very necessary to make sure your web hosting provider provides an average uptime of more than 99%.

So far in Ipage hosting the quality of the server uptime is pretty good, the average uptime has been always above 98%, mostly above 99%. Hence when it comes to the server uptime, Ipage hosting is one of the best hosting providers around.

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Server uptime refers to the measure of the time the server has been up and running with fully operational. The oppostie to uptime is the downtime which refers to the situation when the system is not operational for some reasons. Normally the uptime is calculated with up to 3 decimal points like 99.999%. 100% availability of the server all the time is nearly impossible, hence we can say the uptime is good if the average uptime is above 98%, if it is below 90% then it means you need to find your self another hosting provider.

Now lets take a look at the Ipage hosting’s uptime. The average uptime of Ipage hosting servers are found to be 98 to 99% which is good. The octobers average uptime of Ipage hosting servers is found out to be 98.992%. Normally the uptime is calcuated every 5 to 15 minutes, here the uptime is calculated every 5 minutes.

From the result of the uptime calculation we can conclude the Ipage hosting is a reliable hosting where you can rest assured that your website will be up and running almost all the time.

One thing to be noticed here is that on 14th october, the uptime was very low, it is about 82% which is the main reason why the average uptime didn’t reached 99%. In october for more than 25 days the uptime of Ipage hosting servers were absolute 100%. When it comes to server uptimes, Ipage hosting one of the best hosting companies which we can rely on.

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