iPage provides customers with all the tools they need to design and build a professional looking website quickly and easily with no programming or HTML experience necessary. Standard web hosting packages start from just $4.50 per month. For this you get an all-in-one hosting solution that will provide you with everything you need to start up and manage both personal and business websites.
Reliability and Uptime
This is an important issue if you intend to run a website for profit, as any downtime will reflect negatively on your website traffic and profits. iPage has a 99.9% network uptime guarantee and they monitor websites 24/7.
This means that if any problems are detected, such as your website going offline for whatever reasons, the technical support department will be alerted immediately so that they can start working on the issue and getting your website up and running again. Downtime is very difficult to predict and safeguard against so it is good to know that iPage provides such a proactive response to dealing with this issue.
Control Panel
The control panel utilized by iPage is called vDeck. This is a powerful tool that is user friendly and enables customers to build professional looking websites in just a few clicks. vDeck is not the most commonly used control panel in the web hosting industry and there are more popular options such as cPanel. This means if you are transferring your site in from another provider you must make sure you check with iPage first on how to interface your website with the new control panel. This will help to ensure you do not lose any website functionality.
Marketing Tools
One of the key tasks for all website owners is to increase site traffic, and iPage provides customers with free credits for the main search engines such as Google and Yahoo which adds up to $150 of free advertising. iPage also provides tools to help you improve the content on your website and increase search engine ranking results, such as blog and photo gallery software.
eCommerce Tools
iPage offers a wide range of eCommerce tools for online business including shopping carts, catalogs, payment gateways and even coupon and discount options. This can provide you with everything you need to set up and run your business online.
Customer Support
It is important to make sure you have the right level of customer service in place for your requirements. If you are new to online website design and hosting, or running an online business then you will need to make sure that you have round the clock support in place to help you with any problems or queries you may have.
iPage provide 24/7 live chat, telephone and email support and the website also has a lot of information on the products and services offered as well as a help center for customers. This can help you to find quick answers to many of the commonly asked questions.
