IPage Web hosting, $ 0.00/mo. on Linux Shared


Web hosting has been discontinued (added ), Aggregate Rating (2.6 out of 10 from 40 reviews)
ipage.com
IPage
10 Corporate Drive, Suite #300
Burlington , MA 01803
US
☎ Phone 1-877-472-4399

ipage.com is inactive, but is redirected to bluehost.com
  • 💡 Plan Name: Web hosting (sku #p18746)
  • 🔧 Category: Shared Hosting / Linux
  • 💰 Price:$ 0.00/mo.($ 8.35 after 12 mo.) VAT excDiscontinued
  • 💿 Disk Space: unlimited
  • 📶 Traffic bandwidth: unmetered
  • 💲 Setup Fee: free
🔌 Hosted domains :unlimited
🆓 free domains :1
📌 Dedicated IPs :0
💳 Payment Methods :Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :vDeck
🔧 Category :BackupWebsite Builder
✍️ Support Options :EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :United States
screenshot of Web hosting from ipage.com

Original plan URL was https://www.ipage.com/web-hosting


📜 Plan description

Our one-size-fits-all hosting plan will meet your online needs at an amazing value.

iPage provides you with the tools to create the online presence you always wanted with the help of our award-winning support team. With every account, you get:
Selling online

Scalable bandwidth
Unlimited domain names allowed
Unlimited MySQL databases

Free SSL Certificate
Free domain for 1 year ($14.99 value)

Enhanced security suite ($100 Value)
vDeck Control Panel
24/7 network monitoring
Visitor statistics/site traffic reporting

Performance load balanced servers
Two data center locations
Cisco routers using BGP4 protocol
UPS power backup & generators

iPage Website Builder (6 pages)
Mobile optimized site builder
WordPress 1-click installer
Hundreds of templates and themes

Easy-to-use setup wizards
Content management systems
(WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, etc)
Blogs
(PixelPost, b2evolution, WordPress, etc)
Photo galleries (Gallery2, ZenPhoto, etc)
Forums (Gbook, phpBB, SMF, etc)

Free online store
PayPal integration
Easy 1-click installer
AgoraCart shopping cart

OpenCart shopping cart
OSCommerce shopping cart
PrestaShop shopping cart
Zen Cart shopping cart
TomatoCart shopping cart

Online help center and ticketing system
Step-by-step tutorials
30-day money back guarantee
24/7 phone and chat support

Customizable email address with your domain (you@your-domain.com)
Check email online with WebMail
Email forwarding

Autoresponders
Customizable spam filters
Virus checking
POP3/IMAP email accounts

📄 Editorial Review

iPage is a hosting company founded in 1998. They use world class technology and they are currently hosting over 1 million websites.

They have been acquired by Endurance International Group ( / Newfold ) and since then their services has increased by offering a wider range of products. Is one of the brands EIG is promoting (considering how others got closed after being acquired)

They come with the following hosting options:
  • Web Hosting;
  • VPS Hosting;
  • WordPress Hosting;
  • Dedicated Servers;
  • Domain Registration;

Some of the core features of the iPage web hosting plans are:
  • Scalable bandwidth;
  • Unlimited domain names;
  • Unlimited MySQL databases;
  • Free domain for 1 year;
  • Designing and building tools;

VPS plans are equipped with the following:
  • A free domain;
  • Managed support;
  • Pre-installed scripts like PHP5/Perl/Python;

Dedicated servers include everything mentioned for VPS plans, plus IP addresses (between 3 and 5 depending on the Dedicated Server you choose).

WordPress hosting includes unlimited storage and bandwidth. These have pre-installed themes and plugins, as well as free domain registration and an easy-to-use search engine.

iPage comes with a series of freebies for their customers. Some of these are:
  • Free drag and drop site builder;
  • Free domain transfer;
  • Free domain registration;
  • Free email address;
  • Free templates;
  • Free SSL certificate;
  • Free ad credits;

iPage operates according to the standard money-back guarantee in the industry. They promise their customers to provide them with a refund within 30 days from the purchase of a product in case they are not happy with it.

👪 Most Recent Customer Reviews

📆
Jason (sales@c...) / thevoiceinc.com
⏳ Time Hosted: over 3 years
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Cost
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😠 Domain renewal nigthmare
Ipage use to be a good hosting company, but in the last few years they have gone downhill. Sure support is available 24 hours a day but youl will spend at least 1 hour on the phone waiting to take to support and online chat takes longer. Beware of what you sign up for, this is a company that will try to nickel and dime you to death, including after your purchase. When you log into your control panel you will be presented with several offers to purchase addition services, You will need to decline these offers before you can get to your control panel. Also be careful where you click in your control panel because the control panel is littered with ads for additional services. In the last month I have had several problems with ipage on multiple domains I manage.
BEWARE: When I was renewing my ipage hosting, my domains showed an expiration that was good for another year. At this point I’m thinking "ok, I must have purchased the domains for 2 years instead of 1 year" so because the expiration dates showed the domain was good for another year I did not renew yet. 30 days later I discovered my sites are all down and unreachable. While calling support (after waiting for 72 minutes before customer support picks up) I was told that the domain expired 30 days prior and the expiration dates are wrong so the domains are in redemption and it will cost $160 per domain to remove them from redemption. Once paid it will take 24 to 48 hours before the sights come back up.
Ipage stated that this issue was my fault for not renewing the domains even though their system was wrong and the domains displayed an expiration date of December 2015.
After researching ipage and their redemption fees, I discovered that I am not the first one to have this problem. It would seem ipage purposely displays the wrong expiration dates in order to raise extra capital.
So let this be a lesson for anyone who is thinking of using ipage to host their site. BUYER BEWARE!
If you are wondering if I paid the $160 per domain to get them out of redemption. Yes, because the business I lost outweighs the fees charged.
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luyandjo1 (luisfrancojr@g...) / coinonly.org
⏳ Time Hosted: 3 to 6 months
Global rating
Features
Cost
Customer Relation
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😠 Extremely Slow load times
Even though they have very low prices ipage STICKS when it comes to load times. I got hooked with the price feature. But as they say you get what u paid for.
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Cornelia (corneliathrop@g...)
⏳ Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
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Cost
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😠 iPage Borders on Credit Card Fraud
iPage borders on committing credit card fraud. I have carefully set my accounts to only manually renew (set them NOT to auto-renew) for two years in a row and yet iPage has automatically charged my credit card to renew hosting services for each year. I have then had to call iPage staff to ask them to refund my card. The iPage staff never seem to care about the problem and the card does not get refunded. I have then had to call back a second time to finally get my money back for the services I did not intend to purchase in the first place. This means that iPage is charging a credit card that they DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO USE for services that the client did not agree to purchase.

In addition, iPage uses deceptive practices to make it appear that consumers are receiving a cheap service when in reality it is expensive after the first year. They do this by offering VERY inexpensive services for the first year and not advertising anywhere that the prices will go up by roughly 14 times the second year (roughly $8 for the first year and $107 for each subsequent year). They don't overtly lie to consumers, but rather omit information that would be critical to understanding the whole picture. Most reasonably people will assume that the advertised price is more or less the continuous price unless it is mentioned that it is a "first year special price" or a "discount off the first year of service". The page probably says in fine print somewhere that prices may change, but I am not a stupid person and I have never been able to find it. Ergo, most average people like me probably will not see it.

The bottom line is that iPage appears to either be HIGHLY inefficient in their billing and credit card processing systems or to be leaving errors in their system that may generate additional income by auto-charging people unawares. They are then not very responsive to requests for correction of the problem. Last, the initial driver of the problem was that iPage increased their prices by 14 times in one year, causing me to decide not to renew my service in the first place.

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