These are managed plans (iPage looks after the technical management of the VPS for you), so the prices aren't bad, but you'll get more options and control elsewhere. IPage's VPS hosting (opens in new tab) plans are relatively ordinary: there are just three, they're Linux only, and even the starter product (1 core, 1GB RAM, 40GB storage and 1TB bandwidth) is priced at a mid-range $19.99 for the first term, renewing at $24.99. (Again, that's the standard deal, so you won't see a drastic price hike once the first term is up.) This is fair value - you can sometimes pay more for standard shared hosting - but the feature list is a little short.Īs an alternative, IONOS' 'One' WordPress plan (opens in new tab) has very basic specs (10GB storage and supports just one website) but it includes staging, daily cloud backups and smart WordPress plugin updates, and it's priced at $18 billed monthly (no long-term contract required.)Īnd if you don't really need these more advanced features, after all, IONOS WordPress Essential plan supports one WordPress site, 25GB storage and 10 email accounts, and includes a free domain and wildcard SSL certificate, all for just $3 billed monthly. The company says its WordPress platform 'has been designed to increase load speeds by up to 2.5 times', and the premium plan ($6.95 a month initially, $10.49 on renewal) throws in specialist WordPress support, SiteLock-based security and automatic malware removal. IPage's WordPress hosting (opens in new tab) plans - priced from $3.75 a month over three years, $7.49 on renewal - improve on its shared hosting by preinstalling WordPress, a collection of themes and plugins, and a custom WordPress control panel. HostGator's similar Baby plan (opens in new tab) is almost twice the price for the first three years at $3.95, and renews at $9.95. If you can live with that, iPage looks like great value, even compared to the big-name competition. And IPage uses the obscure vDeck control panel, rather than the more popular, straightforward and capable cPanel. The Website Builder adds a branding link to your pages, unless you pay to upgrade.

There's no monthly billing, for instance - the shortest plan is a year. Browse the fine details and you'll find some small potential issues.

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