Look at advertisements for most web hosting companies today, and you’ll see that most drone on about the same exact features. Selecting the best provider with the perfect fit for your website takes days (if not weeks) of careful research, mostly focused around what value is added by the “amazing” app a host flaunts or bonuses it throws in to sweeten the deal.

A wise way to approach the task would be to start by searching for the best hosting providers in the industry (a curated opinion based on user/expert use) and going through their cache of tools and applications. Finding the best in the industry takes care of having to worry about whether or not the company can be relied upon to provide excellent service. The next step becomes browsing through their tools and features and making sure there everything is offered for an easy installation, configuration and administration of a website. That done, the other extra bells and whistles that contribute to making it all (hardware and software) run seamlessly can be taken as welcome bonuses.

Let’s take a look at iPage for instnace. With a constant and impressive record of ending up at the top of the “Top Hosting Providers” list every year since the company was founded in 1998, iPage has proven time and again that it offers the best service any website owner could ever ask for. But what about its “bells and whistles”-  are there any amazing heart-stopping goodies on offer? Let’s take a look:

Unlimited is Unlimited

iPage doesn’t hold anything back when it uses the word “unlimited”. Clients get unlimited disk space, bandwidth, a number of domains hosted and even MySQL databases. A website can be as big as it wants or grow at an accelerated rate – it won’t make any difference.

Clients Own their Domains

When clients purchase their domain names through some hosting providers (or are offered free ones as part of a package) the ownership isn’t always transferred to them. This is one sly way some providers choose to discourage their clients from leaving them in case they have a change of mind. iPage simply asks its clients to pay $15 should they, in the very rare chance, want to leave. This illustrates the company’s confidence that their clients will never want to do so.

Easy Site Building

In a bid that could probably do some damage to the web designing industry, iPage offers site building tools that make it extremely easy to create a site that not only looks like it was designed by professionals, but also performs like it was coded by tech geniuses. iPage’s Drag and Drop Site Builder allows clients to create up to 6 pages by simply dragging website features and adding them to web pages. Adding and removing these features using the builder allows for customization that doesn’t end up crashing the whole site.

Do you want to add blogs to drive more traffic? That can easily be accommodated with iPage, too. They can be up and running in a matter of minutes with the help of a wizard. Need to create a photo album or gallery? That too can be taken care of with the help of the Photo Gallery Setup Wizard. It’s all so simple and easy. An entire site can be created from scratch, within an hour. Not many hosting providers can say they offer that much prowess to their clients, at least not at iPage’s low price.

Help with Selling Sites

A website needs to be seen. It needs to be sold. After everything is done, the main task a website owner has to keep pursuing throughout the site’s lifetime is marketing. iPage offers a set of features that greatly ease the work of owners by way of marketing guides and credits. You get hundreds of dollars worth of marketing features: $100 for Google Adwords or $50 each to be used on Facebook or Yahoo/Bing ads. In terms of ROI, this is an unbeatable offer – clients can see just how profitable it is by analyzing the data from visitor’s statistics and traffic reports, which are also included in the package deal.

E-Commerce has Never Been Easier

For clients looking to open an e-commerce store, iPage makes their dreams come true by letting them add their stores for completely free. These clients then get to add their selection of shopping carts from multiple choices on offer. PayPal is the world’s preferred way of paying online and iPage clients are allowed to accept payments from this gateway, making visitors’ online shopping experience as pleasant as it could ever be.

Clients are Protected 24/7/365

iPage’s clients don’t only have the backing of a support team working online all year round, they also have a wall of technology that protects them from every possible conceivable disaster – technical or man-made. The techs monitor the network for any anomalies, even as an Enhanced Security Suite (worth $100) stands guard.

With all these features (and many more) it is no wonder why iPage has dominated the web hosting business in recent years, and the constant five-star reviews the company receives are the result of the company’s millions of happy, satisfied customers.