Update: Rumors turned out to be correct, additional information below!
If rumors are correct, IPowerWeb/IPower a leading web hosting provider with over a half million web hosting accounts is currently being arranged for sale to Endurance International. Endurance International has recently been purchasing up large amounts of web hosting providers including PowWeb, FatCow and many more large brands.
If history tends to repeat itself IPowerWeb clients can be expected to be in for an interesting ride. Endurance International is known to heavily moderate their forums & ban users who voice their concerns.
The company's first moves normally include switching to call-centers & support located in India. Shortly afterwards migrating any users to their datacenter location in Boston to their own proprietary control panels and systems.
IPOWER, Inc., (www.ipower.com) a leading website hosting provider for small businesses, has been named one of the 500 fastest-growing companies in the country by Inc. magazine, which released its 2006 annual ranking of the Inc. 500 on August 23. IPOWER ranked 121 on the list with a three-year sales growth percentage of 801.2%.
Update
Both companies will continue to operate as separate entities despite the merger according to IPowerWeb insiders. Additional announcements regarding the merger will be made available soon!
Sat, 28 March 2009, 08:32
I signed up for reseller account with them and I tell you my experience was pathetic. First their servers were too slow, second they developed DNS problem and they did not even inform me about that, down for around 10 days and then they changed servers.
Can you afford a 10 days downtime?
Sat, 26 January 2008, 02:37
Not only are IPowerweb customers suffering. I've got several sites at "AccountSupport", the private-label arm of Endurance. Several of those sites have had problems since Friday. I believe the problems are caused by duplicate user names. When the companies indiscriminately merged accounts, it wreaked namespace havoc. Directly permissions randomly change as paths are resolved first to one user, then the other.
Tue, 22 January 2008, 08:11
Sean,
You're not the only one:
http://hostjury.com/blog/view/27/ipowerweb-ipower-clients-enduring-massive-problems
Tue, 22 January 2008, 07:42
Interesting.. I'm still on the phone with IPowerweb. The transition as I understand it is breaking such things as FTP passwords etc... good like trying to get through to support . Wait times are averaging 1+ hours on the hold lines.... what a mess
Wed, 16 May 2007, 16:55
Just a note confirming this rumor...I just got off the phone with iPowerweb tech support for a problem related to server migration and was told this was due to the 'merge with Endurance'. So it seems to be true.
Fri, 11 May 2007, 16:32
Well, you definitely mentioned it on the net first tbone!
Next time submit it here first and we'll toss you a link back ;)
Thu, 10 May 2007, 18:10
Yes, but your blog entry was posted before the press release.
Thu, 10 May 2007, 13:49
To a webhostingtalk thread of all places? :) I'll cite their press release about it instead!
Wed, 9 May 2007, 03:15
You should really cite your sources.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=604081