iPage Review: Plans, Prices & Specs

What iPage was

iPage was a budget shared hosting brand aimed at people putting a first website online: small businesses, clubs, freelancers and hobby projects. Its pitch was deliberately simple. Instead of a grid of tiers, iPage sold essentially one shared hosting plan at a low introductory price, bundled with a free domain for the first year, a drag-and-drop site builder, email and one-click WordPress, and ran it on its own control panel rather than cPanel. It was never a host for developers, high-traffic stores or anyone who needed root access, and it competed almost entirely on entry price.

The name dates back to 1998. The brand most people remember, though, is the one relaunched in 2009 after Endurance International Group bought it, and from that point iPage was one brand in a very large portfolio. Endurance merged with Web.com in 2021 to form Newfold Digital, which also owns Bluehost, HostGator and Network Solutions.

What happened

iPage was wound down gradually rather than shut off in one announcement, which is why so many old links still point at a domain that technically resolves.

The storefront stopped selling in 2023

The last time the Internet Archive captured a working iPage homepage was in September 2023. Every capture from 2025 onwards is a redirect, and the old pricing page stopped returning a page as well. In practice iPage stopped taking new customers around 2023 and kept running as a billing and support platform for the accounts it already had.

The customer base moved to Network Solutions

In December 2025 Newfold published an announcement that iPage.com was becoming Network Solutions. Its wording is worth repeating because it is the clearest official statement that exists: accounts, services and login details move automatically, most customers keep signing in with their existing username and password, and current pricing and billing schedules stay the same. Network Solutions’ landing page for inherited iPage customers puts it even more briefly: you are already set up, use your iPage login details.

What the domain does today

Checked in September 2026, ipage.com returns a permanent redirect to a secure login page and nothing else. There are no plans, no prices and no signup. The sister brand FatCow now forwards to Network Solutions’ iPage landing page, which is a second indication of where the customer base ended up.

If you are still an iPage customer

• Find out who bills you now. Check a recent invoice or your card statement for the name that appears on the charge, and work from that brand’s support channel rather than guessing.
• Sign in through the successor’s account manager with your existing credentials. If they are not accepted, use the password reset on the successor’s site instead of hunting for an old iPage URL.
• Take a full backup before you change anything: website files, every database, and a copy of your mailboxes downloaded over IMAP. Store it somewhere that is not the hosting account.
• Check renewal dates and auto-renewal settings for hosting, domains and any add-ons. Brand transitions are the classic moment for a forgotten annual charge to surprise someone.
• If you are moving away, treat the domain as the critical asset: unlock it, request the transfer authorization code, and make sure you control the administrative contact email before you start. Move email last and keep a record of your DNS records.

What to use instead

There is no like-for-like replacement for a one-plan host in 2026, so the honest framing is to pick based on who you want as a landlord. Two of the options below sit inside the same group that absorbed iPage; the others do not, and if consolidation is what pushed you out, that difference matters more than a dollar a month.

Why this page exists

We keep reviews of retired hosting brands online because people still search for them, still link to them and still have accounts, invoices or domains tied to them. A dead page or a silent redirect to a sales funnel does not answer the question those readers actually have, which is what happened and what to do next. This page is a status record, not a recommendation: we have not tested iPage and we cannot, because there is nothing left to buy. Everything above is based on what the brand’s own domain does today, what the Internet Archive captured while the site was still live, and what the successor company publishes for the customers it inherited. If the situation changes we will update the page rather than delete it.