iPower Sucks. Would they give or take your power?
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- Filed under: Cheap Web Hosting
Oct 14,2008
iPower.com sucks. So that is what a few have said. Heard iPower been giving problems? Some iPower complaints even accused them of scam. Can these negative energies (reviews) be trusted? READ THIS FIRST!
Common question: How good is iPower Hosting?
If you are considering to get a hosting account from iPower, you may want to (or probably have tried) searching for the keywords “iPower Sucks” on Google. The result can make you more confused if i-Power would be the best choice. Perhaps you have already read tons of good stuff and rave reviews about iPower Hosting thus far.
Wouldn’t iPower experiences like below scare you?
IPOWER responded that it is in the process of migrating the domains…. Help, IPOWER has taken away my power 
iPower is run by Bozo the Clown… We are switching all of our clients to our own reseller program through another hosting company. I paid IPOWER’s design team to set up the Agora shopping cart on my web site, which after hearing every excuse under the sun from IPOWER that it was set up right, but it in fact was not…
If you go through each of Googles result pages, it seems there are thousands of unsatisfied customers who have been through some sticky situation with iPower. If you search for the keywords “iPower sucks”, you see that there are more than 1300 results by Google. That is a lot of bad things said about one hosting (assuming all those result pages talks about why this hosting provider really sucked). Should these SERPs and sites such as ipowercomplaints.com make you change your mind?
Think again. Do not dismiss the fact that iPower is one of the better known web hosts in the industry. You have read the reviews. Though nothing they do is completely spectacular or unbelievable, they do what a hosting company should do. That is, iPower actually answers their phones, replies to their emails, responds to live chat requests, doesn’t rip you off, and provides quality hosting. So among the millions of satisfied clients, surely they will be some who disagree. Let us look at the numbers:
| Hosting X | Total Pages About Host X |
Total Hate Pages About X |
Hate/Pages Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| iPower Hosting | 374,200 | 1,300 | 0.003 |
From the above number, only 1 out of every 400 pages about iPower hates this hosting (about 0.03 percent). This is not so bad considering many other hostings have worst hate-serp ratio. The hate pages is really negligible if you look at the real number of pages (over 300,000) mentioning iPower hosting. To experience the hosting for yourself, go to https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/go/ipower.php.
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iPower is stuck in 1998. stay away, or don’t complain.
I don’t know what some of you people are talking about. I’ve been a customer with Ipower for years now. All I’ve got from ipower is trust and dedication! I call support and they speak English and understand my questions, my web site is hardly to NEVER down.
Except for the glitches when they moved, I’ve had no problems with them for 5+ years. When I did need help, it took a little while, but I was able to get it figured out. I’ve measured service outages with software, and it has been almost non-existent.
Take care!! IPower change the quota for every email account to only 250MB, for OLD and new accounts. Avoid contract with Ipower they change the conditions of theirs plans arbitrary:
“Hello, Thank you for contacting support. Allocating additional space for mail boxes is no longer an option. 250MB is the default and maximum size of any mailbox on the system.
If the customer requires additional storage space for emails. You may want to consider exchange mail services. Our basic exchange box has a quota of 2BG.
Michael G – Reseller Support”
yeah, that does suck.
here’s what I do: have the person use a gmail account, set the ipower email account to route to trash (so it doesn’t accumulate), then add a forward to the gmail account.
That’s what I do, but then iPower started deactivating/deleting my accounts when clients didn’t use their email address to send mail often enough. When I asked them to stop, they refused.
I have been with iPower for 4 years now. They keep getting worse and worse. I am in the process of migrating all of my reseller accounts to another hosting provider. iPower has multiple outages every year. SO far in 2010 there has been at least 5 outages that affected all of my customers for an extended period of time. Their first level techs are not knowledgeable. They barely have the knowledge to help. They changed their email quota suddenly. All of my customers were using webmail clients to manage their email. Then all of a sudden, everyone’s mailbox was full one day. iPower sucks. What is the benefit of having unlimited disk space, if my mailboxes are limited in size?? 250MB mailboxes?? Seriously, that is tiny in today’s world.
I power’s customer service is the worse. It goes well beyond bad to real bad. As i am writing this my ecommerce site is down for 24 hours and no resolution in site. One of my other ecommerce sites I finally gave up on having it hosted and went to self hosting. After they wouldn’t address a latency issue. They had the server set so the code had to compile every time a page loaded. They did something to my email when they installed the SSL key so it wouldn’t work with an email client. Their answer was I didn’t know how to set up an email client program. Now they have completely fouled up my site while renewing my ssl key.
Lesson learned: never host a mission critical site on ipower.
How about never host mission critical website on any shared hosting.