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Ipage Web hosting review

Having paid over $500.- per year for hosting 4 web sites for most of the past decade, I was blown away by the value Ipage hosting offers. Plus, having everything unlimited allows our company to grow without ever having to worry about web hosting again. This has to be simply the best deal on Web Hosting bar none. Also found the webmail to be much more intuitive and easy to use than the one provided by our previous provider, Rackforce. Unbeatable package, lots of free extras, superb graphical interface.
I have found none of the issues noted by other reviewers, but then, I do not use their site builder but rather build my pages in-house and simply upload them via ftp. I also did not transfer my domains to Ipage.
No uptime issues, either - previous host Rackforce had far more downtime issues.

Biggest Pro: Best hosting value bar none, excellent features

Don't believe the HYPE !!

OK.... I went for ipage because of all the positive reviews online. The weebly drag and drop site builder is very easy to use, but that it about the only positive thing I can say ! I have had a website with ipage for about 6 months now and I am not impressed.

My real problems are the very poor customer support and the usability of their websites. I have asked for help a number of times via their 24/7 online chat support, every time has been a complete shambles, I get the impression that the people on the other end don’t know what they are doing and don’t really care about your problems. They don’t listen to what you are saying and then just bombard you with a load of regurgitated standard responses that are just cut and pasted in, often with no relevance to the problems you are asking about. They also ask to put you on hold to “check your account for 3-4 minutes”, again this is nonsense and I have been asked this 2 or 3 times during a conversation when my account has already been well and truly checked ! Either they are too busy to be bothered or they are off making a cup of coffee !

It soon became quickly apparent that the basic package with ipage is rather limited, if you want any more then you will have to pay for it, and it’s not cheap ! There are a couple of standard website features that you see everywhere but ipage simply don’t offer, a slide show in the header bar for example, I explained that I wouldn’t mind paying for this feature but the answer was “it is not possible” ! Also I have tried to enter my business logo at the top of the page, but the template always reduces it to a tiny useless size so I cannot use this feature.

So, in summary, if you are looking for a simple basic website then this may work for you, if you are looking for something better and good customer support, I’d forget it. I will be changing my webhosting shortly to a company that are up to the job.......

Biggest Pro: Drag and drop site builder
Biggest Con: customer support & lack of features in basic package forcing you to have to spend spend spend !

Bait and Switch

Great beginning price and so-so stable. But their billing is ATROCIOUS.
1) They take your money automatically without notice
2) They bill you for things you never requested
3) They make it very difficult to get your money back
4) They more than double the prices once it is time to renew
5) they say you can cancel the hosting, and then sign up again with a new contact name in order to get the original price back, but for existing customers they have no discount but rather MORE THAN DOUBLE their pricing. Why make us go through all that trouble, if you know what we are doing anyway?

Biggest Con: STAB their existing Customers with BAIT and Switch

Find better web host.

It was pretty hard to create a web site with the iPage. I never finished it. Use Godaddy or some other webhost. Websitetonight worked very good for me.
iPage also charged my credit card two weeks before the renewal date. I closed my account with them.

I am so disgusted with iPage

I have been with iPage for about 2 months so far and I have 6 sites that I have online or working to get online. For the first month and a half things were ok but in the last 5 days my sites are loading slow on the front end and on the back end it is just getting horrendously worse. It took 5 minutes just to install a JCE editor in Joomla. It takes over a minute or two for it either load a new category or article and then another minute or over for it to save the changes. I have been getting errors messages saying that the "Server sent no data" many times.
I contacted them and they told me it is my plugins that are doing it. They said I was making to many requests to the SQL server which I found an outright lie. So I downloaded programs to reduce, compress, and minify my html for the sites. I added a program to improve the caching so the sites would load faster. I have tried many things that they have suggested. One site in particular I blew up last night and started all over again thinking maybe it was my fault. So I did that but now it is even slower in the admin side than before. All I get is excuses from them and saying it is my fault that the sites are slow on the front end and back end. Maybe I am all wet but I personally think that they are throttling the service or have too many sites on one shared server but I have no proof.
So all those that are having a great experience with them I am happy for you but unfortunately I am not having the same experience with them.
As a side note I was with them a year ago and after a few days the service went down and it took them all weekend to resolve the issue. So I said then that I would not go back with them but they gave me a deal I could not refuse for unlimited everything to come back and so I did with reservations and my reservations have come true. The service and usability and performance has been sub-par so far compared to 1and1 and Lunarpages. I don't like 1and1 but at least my sites were not slow and I could work on the admin or back end of my sites without slowness issues and errors.
So for me I cannot recommend iPage to anyone.

Biggest Pro: Price for the year of hosting
Biggest Con: Server/connection speed, tech support is horrible

Used iPage for 16+ months

iPage has been very good for us. It is a small church website so we don't have to worry about eCommerce. I have had to contact customer support a couple of times and have nothing but a good experience. One question was a technical problem I didn't understand and the CS individual was able to show me so the next time I could handle the issue myself.

Up-time has not been an issue as far as I know. No one has complained to me and I have not had problems pulling the site.

Biggest Pro: I use the Weebly site builder and it is very easy. Very short learning curve.
Biggest Con: Weebly has many templates but you cannot modify the background of the page.

Correction to previous iPage review.

I posted an earlier review here, but as there appears to be no way to edit or delete reviews submitted I have decided to write another review.

I had a number of complaints with iPage that I posted about previously: being triple billed for certain items; being nickel-and-dimed, being misinformed by their customer service department, and being auto-billed at the most inopportune time.

Yes, iPage does break down its services into lots of parts it charges separately for, and yes that is annoying. I can live with it.

As far as their customer service, it appears that the people who work in the online customer service department do not directly communicate with the people in the billing department so they don't always know what position to take on billing issues. So, with iPage, and I would guess with any online service, unless your problem is trivial don't bother filling out a support ticket. CALL THEM. When I finally called them to cancel because I felt I was being treated in a shameful and unconscionable manner the woman I dealt with was SO NICE, and was more than willing to refund my money, correct the multiple billing issues, and restructure my account so that I would be billed when I needed the billing to occur.

So, all in all, the biggest issue I had with iPage was an issue of miscommunication because I was being lazy and tried to address my problems via text (which is an open door to misunderstanding and hostility) instead of actually TALKING with someone who was knowledgeable and in a position to actually address the issue at hand.

Once again: never write anything when you're mad. :-) Wait a while.

Biggest Pro: Service

iPage - Regular OUTAGES, ALWAYS SLOW, POOR SUPPORT

Well what a dissapointment. After leaving my last hosting company because of performance issues I did my homework and iPageg seemed to be a good bet. How wrong I was. The website is down frequently, I dont check it that often so the fact I frequently find it is down suggests its probably down more often that its up. When it is up it frequently loads very slowly. Tech support told me that a 4 second load time was acceptable for a page which kind of tells me Im with the wrong company. 4 seconds is good compared to normal iPage load times btw but wholly unacceptable IMO. I'm losing custom, paying for clicks which don't make it to my site and for good measure being ignored then patronised by their support - NOT happy. AVOID THIS HOSTING COMPANY, I WISH I HAD.

Biggest Pro: Price
Biggest Con: Terrible Reliability

I Page Appalling business morals and ethics

Hi ! Like a lot of people I looked on the web and stupidly fell for the rhetorical reviews listed on the main Google listings regarding the service I page provide. As a novice I got sucked in by the rhetoric. First of all I paid for a jump start service costing nearly £15 if you include the VAT. This involves (i page) setting up a temporary card and email for you while you are getting you site sorted. This never happened, they never did it. Then having access to the control panel found out that the automatic billing for renewal doubles the cost the following year. There is no mention of this on the sign up. When trying to call you on the phone I was often left for some considerable time prior to getting an answer. Most of the services like fast data and security software are billed separate which is not clear on the site 100% money back guaranteed promise.
If you want to use the Weebly software on the site you can have 6 pages but to upgrade it will cost you nearly £15 month for this on the I page site “Extortion” as you can get a Free 6 page site and upgrade direct from Weebly much cheaper
It cost me £119 in total with jumpstart service and security software and having been totally disgusted by the service for the above reasons requested a refund. They sent back £20:86.
They can argue the small print all they like, the fact is that they have taken £98 of my money and I am now left with very little for it. I no longer want anything to do with this company their business morals are appalling.

Biggest Pro: Giving your financial details to these sharks
Biggest Con: Hidden costs

Best Host I have found

They run all power on wind energy, I have two sites up (3 soon) and both load very quickly and have never had a problem with down time. Support is excellent, (less than 2 min.) and to the point. Hosting fee is very reasonable and the dashboard is very complete and easy to use. I have needed very little support. Total control over all areas and organization of sites and email. Email works very well after proper setup. Much better than my last host who was very expensive and support was poor. After reading all the negative reviews, I have to say that you need to know what you are doing and have a correct plan before proceeding. We have to crawl before we can walk. I recommended ipage to everyone but the host is a very small percentage to the success of a site. There are many other things that can be done to improve a site. GREAT HOST A+

Biggest Pro: Professional Services for Cheep
Biggest Con: None