iPage vs HostPapa

Only few companies out there to work for the success of the website in various ways till the end of subscription period. Most of the companies make the customer dissatisfy in the midway by giving bad hosting experience. So, it is however essential to find only the reliable web hosting company in the beginning of subscription itself. At this time, we will compare two popular and leading web hosts – HostPapa and iPage.

HostPapa is not just a web host to explain like other, but there are lot more to discuss about the features and facilities that a customer can enjoy by going contract with it. If you are not considering the price at all but instead only the quality, then HostPapa would be best choice forever for shared web hosting type. In that, you can host your personal, small business, ecommerce, non-profit and forums sites. The starting price of the hosting plan is $5.95/month for 3 years subscription. But, in the case of iPage it is only $4.25/month and highest cost fee that it charges a customer does not exceed $4.50/month for 1 year subscription, whereas if you go 1 year contract with HostPapa you need to pay $7.95/month. It is of course not affordable for everyone and only few can afford of it. In this case, it is better to go with iPage.

Some of the important features that give more benefits to customer by hosting with Host papa are free Soholaunch site builder software, personal website tools, web statistics, AWStats, Ad Credits to various social network sites and search engines, various tools to market in search engines and so on. Unfortunately, it credits only $25 free ad credits for Google Adwords but iPage credits double of that amount. HostPapa guarantees to make your website indexed in 24 hours in search engines using the SEO Tools. Additionally, $50 credited to MySpace and Ask Sponsored Listings each, $20 Bidvertiser Advertising Network and $25 for Miva Pay per Click Advertising and these credits you cannot find in the features listing of iPage.

Both provides Unlimited Email Accounts, Email Forwarding Accounts, Email Auto responders, POP3/IMAP, free virus scanning, network monitoring, popular shopping carts for ecommerce sites, 1 click installation options from control panel and so on. There is no doubt that iPage’s vDeck control panel has equal and similar features that is shown in the HostPapa’s cPanel, both are most competitive and leading control panels. Both web hosts’ platforms support various scripting and programming languages, multimedia features and various software. They both have got lot of awards of their reliability and technical & customer support. Customers can contact at any time regardless of the time or day for their issues and clarifications through various options such as online chat, telephone, email and so on. If you are newbie, using their user guides and video tutorials, you can get solution for almost all of your doubts in web hosting.