iPowerweb Website Hosting Review & Discount Coupons

iPowerweb offers three main web hosting plans that you can choose from - Read Site, Pro Plan and the Site and Store Plan. These three web hosting plans differ in many ways.  The Ready site doesn't offer FTP access. It doesn't support Perl, an important language for CGI scripting. It also doesn't allow Server Side Includes and even basic add-ons such as Guestbooks, blogs and message boards are not offered. So while this hosting plan costs only $3.95 a month, you should stay far away from it. You can do nothing worthwhile with this hosting plan.

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The second plan offered by iPowerweb is the Pro Plan. This comes with 1500 GB of disk space and 15,000 GB of data transfer. Realistically you'll never be using these many resources. With 1500 GB of disk space, you can probably have 75,00,000 HTML pages on your website. You could also have 20 million page views a month and never need anything beyond this plan. Let's get real however. Unless your website turns out to be the next hot destination after Facebook and Twitter, you're not going to need that many resources. Besides, the promise of 15,000 GB of data transfer is only a promise - there's so much fine print that you'll never be able to use all of it. It'll never be viable for a company like iPowerweb to offer so much for so little. Nevertheless, this plan will meet your requirement if you're planning a business website or a blog or anything else even if you're expecting a burst of visitor traffic. There's a free domain registration that iPowerweb offers with this account. We recommend that you register your domain with GoDaddy or some company that is a domain registrar to begin with. Web hosting companies which offer free 1st year domain registration can sometimes charge more than the market rate for renewal of the domain.

You can host as many websites as you want with the Pro Plan of iPowerweb. There's no limit. You also get 25 MySQL databases.  You'll need one if you're starting a blog or deploying a content management system for a business website or any other. iPowerweb offers 2500 email accounts with this plan and also throws in a proprietary shopping cart solution with it for free. There's an anti-spam solution and autoresponder free. CGI, PHP 4 & 5, Perl are supported with the Pro Plan. You also see graphical stats, visitor tracking data and access/error logs. Several add-ons are available. You have phpBB for a message board, WordPress for blogging and GBook for guestbooks. There's also X7 chat.

The backup solution with the Pro Plan is also a tempting feature. You get a free account with Carbonite for backing up your website anytime you want. iPowerweb also gives you free advertising vouchers of $25 for Yahoo Search marketing and $50 for Google.

The Pro Plan costs $7.95 a month usually but is temporarily being offered for $4.95 a month. The next hosting plan offered by iPowerweb is the Site & Store Plan. This offers everything that the Pro Plan does and more. You get more disk space with this hosting plan - 2000 GB  versus 1500 GB offerd by the Pro Plan. The data transfer is unlimited. Be sure that if you run a site that starts getting a large amount of traffic, say 10,000 visitors a day, most such companies like iPowerweb will nudge you to move to a dedicated server. Don't get taken in by all this generous sprinkling of 'unlimited' throughout the descriptions. You can also have unlimited MySQL databases with the Store and Store Plan!

This plan may also be suitable for those who want to sell products online. You can have upto 50 products added. This is however not much of a solution and Yahoo Merchant Solutions is much better for their shopping features - you can have upto 50,000 products. Of course, it costs $39.95 a month. Yet paying three times as much as IPowerweb gets you a thousand times as much scope for adding products! The Site & Store Plan costs $13.95 a month.

iPowerweb offers 24-7 support on their website and via a toll-free number. They've been around for a long time and host hundreds of thousands of sites. If you're looking for a web hosting solution for a personal or business website, they may be a good option.