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If you’re looking for a web host for your website or blog, stay as far away from Ipower as you possibly can! Any website that requires a MySQL back-end such as Wordpress, Joomla or phpBB will take approximately 30 seconds or more to load. This is a problem affecting all of their clients, yet they still reply to support tickets saying that either nothing is wrong or that Wordpress, used by millions of people, is the source of the problem.

In case my opinion is not enough to convince you, the following are links to other pages I’ve found mentioning their horrible experiences with Ipower.

HostJury - To give you an idea about how bad Ipower is, this blog post at host jury was first posted in May 2007! As you can see, people are still posting comments reporting the same on-going issues to this very day.

IpowerComplaints - Still not convinced? This guy registered the domain IpowerComplaints.com just too give Ipower clients a place to post all of their complaints. Visit the site and you’ll notice its disturbingly active!

phpBB.com - phpBB is probably one of the best free forum software packages available. It’s so good, most hosts, including Ipower, will let you install it by a click of a button. Here is a forum post on phpBB.com with users discussing how using Ipowerweb to host their forum has been unsuccessful because the pages just take way too long to load.

What About vBulletin? - Since Ipower will normally respond back to support tickets saying the reason for the slow load times is due to the software, how do they explain that any php-based software requiring MySQL experienced this problem? Here is an example of a vBulletin website experiencing this problem.

More Ipower Reviews - Take a look what others have to say about Ipower here. At the time of writing, their uptime is rated at 13% and their support at 5%. Honestly, thats as good as 0. Do not register a website with Ipower if you hope to ever actually monetize the website or run a business online.

SitePoint Discussion - Just another discussion discussing why you should stay away from Ipower.

HostSearch Forums - Example of another frustrated user who moved his website after attempting to first solve the problem by dealing with Ipower support. It honestly seems like Ipowerweb does not even care to lose customers.

Problems won’t get Fixed - If you are experiencing this problem, it won’t get fixed even if they tell you it will. Ipower will tell you that you were experiencing a temporary issue, however that issue will return to haunt you constantly. Here is another example of a user trying to solve the problem and realizing the only solution was to switch host.

The list could go on and on, but I think you get the idea. Stay far far away from this web host!

Which web host should you go with? Before making a purchase from any company, take the time to research reviews first on reliable websites such as HostJury. HostJury continually makes an effort to make sure all reviews on their site are real and honest. I’d personally recommend HostGator or 1and1.com.


5 Responses to “Ipower Hosting Slow PHP and MySQL”

  1. kyriakos Says:

    so… what r your isp now people?

  2. Sunshine Says:

    I agree. IPower is the worst hosting company I’ve ever experienced. I wasted one year of business with them. Most of the time my site would take forever to load and other times my site was just down. Support always lied claiming that there was nothing wrong. Then most recently, someone was targeting IPower hosted sites, hacking into sites and uploading malicious scripts and codes in an attempt to steal site visitor’s information. Yet IPower won’t do anything to prevent it and just blames it on weak passwords.

  3. Ekrem Büyükkaya Says:

    My sites are hosted in IPower now.. But I will never use IPower for anything again. Their domain services are as bad as their hosting services, too. And the worst thing.. they are not doing anything to solve the problems.

  4. Kevin@Reliable Affordable Web Site Hosting Says:

    Nice post, very informative and thank you for the alert to the raggedy service and product that IPower is. You are a good person to report to us all these bad items. It sounds like a nightmare of a company to get tangled with.

  5. The Hedgehog Concept. Says:

    Thanks for writing this. It was interesting. You seem very knowledgeable in your field.

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