German web entrepreneur Thomas Gorny is the force behind IPOWER having founded it in 2001. Gorny is the current President and CEO.
Company and Services
IPOWER started from humble beginnings with founder Thomas Gorny’s credit card playing a crucial role in securing working capital. Gorny’s business plan worked and IPOWER rapidly grew its market share. Today IPOWER is one of the world’s leading providers of hosting and e-business solutions.
IPOWER has concentrated on providing solutions for e-commerce, as evidenced by its slogan “The power behind e-business”. Its comprehensive services for e-businesses are aimed at small-to-medium sized firms, and enable its e-commerce customers to market, manage and promote their presence online.
Currently, IPOWER hosts more than 700,000 websites belonging to customers in more than 150 countries. It offers the full range of website services, from domain registration and basic hosting to more specialized solutions geared mainly at the e-commerce market. For online shops, IPOWER offers e-commerce tools and merchant services, as well as marketing and site optimization services. There is also a bespoke website design service.
Probably IPOWER’s most popular hosting product is the IPOWER Pro-Plan. This comes with a host of features and has some extra goodies for promoting your website such as free Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search credits. It also includes one free domain. IPOWER promises to deliver on customer satisfaction and to that end it offers 24/7 support via email, telephone or live online chat. There is also an extensive online knowledgebase containing answers to most commonly asked questions.
IPOWER is fairly large for a web host with more than 300 members of staff worldwide. Just over half of these are based in its US offices in either Phoenix, Arizona or Santa Monica and Los Angeles California. The company has its headquarters in Phoenix.
Unsurprisingly for a larger host provider, customer reviews for IPOWER are somewhat mixed although the majority seem favorable.
As far as awards go, 2006 was a good year for IPOWER. That year it as given the Editor’s Pick Award from Hosting Review and it received the Gold Award from Top Ten Reviews. The independent review website Web Host Directory has selected IPOWER as the Best for Budget web six times.
Server Location
All of IPOWER’s servers can be found in its data centers in Boston, Massachusetts.
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