Is iPage easy to use?

iPage offers shared hosting, the simplest and most straightforward hosting type, which should give it an immediate https://bloggingjoy.com/black-friday/best-black-friday-web-hosting-deals/ usability advantage. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out that way.

One key problem is that iPage uses its own control panel and auto-installer tools. These are limited, with fewer features than the best alternatives, less reliable and more awkward to navigate.

Many hosts use Softaculous as an auto-installer, for instance. This can install WordPress and 150+ apps, has all kinds of options to ensure you get the setup you need, reliably installs apps (often in seconds) and can help you manage your app afterwards.

iPage’s installer works with WordPress and its own website builder only. It has no significant setup options, doesn’t delete a previous WordPress database by default, has left us looking at a ‘Setting up’ message for more than an hour, failed to properly install WordPress once, and doesn’t have any management options (beyond deleting your installation).

This may not matter much to everyone. If you’ve a simple site, and once you’ve created it, you’ll spend minimal time adding content or making changes, hosting management tools aren’t so important. You might spend 15 minutes finding out how to do something, but that’s about it.

But if you’re a web hosting newbie, or you’ve a more complex site to build, maybe a blog where you’ll regularly add new content, then iPage’s usability issues could become a problem.